Leading into the midterm elections in 2022, it’s increasingly looking like the prices you see on grocery store shelves will play an outsized role in voter sentiment. Social media, for example, is already replete with complaints from consumers who see grocery prices spiking precipitously. President Biden’s opponents are likewise circling, apparently smelling blood. And in …
If you’ve gone shopping for groceries at any point in the last few months, you’ve probably encountered this nettlesome trend, to one degree or another. Shortages of some products which the store used to have in abundance, which has caused no small amount of consternation for the Biden administration. The root cause includes a protracted …
Inflation is a hot topic right now, thanks to broad increases in prices for everything from food, gas, and home staples that we’re seeing right now. In fact, inflation hit a 31-year high in October, causing all sorts of knock-on effects. Like, to cite just one example, Dollar Tree announcing that almost everything on its …
The Black Friday deals frenzy is in full swing, as this is the day to take advantage of some of the best sales out there. We’ve seen plenty of great early Black Friday discounts on a wide variety of products, including popular electronics and gadgets that probably show up on many letters to Santa this …
Dollar Tree on Tuesday, in tandem with its third-quarter earnings results, announced a big change in the works for the discount retailer. By April, almost everything on its shelves will cost more than $1. In fact, they will cost $1.25, to be exact. Moreover, the company says this change is permanent and that it’s not …
Samsung seems to have quite the inferiority complex when it comes to Apple. And the company takes every chance that it gets to remind us of that. The latest proof comes in the form of Samsung’s new anti-Apple promotion targeting a $19 polishing cloth. Apple released the cloth a few weeks ago, and it sold …
This week, Tesla is recalling nearly 12,000 vehicles in the US. The recall is due to a software bug that could cause false forward-collision warnings (FCW) and automatic emergency brake (AEB) events, as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported. The recall happened days after Tesla rolled out a software update with limited early …
Weeks after a reporter’s mishap gave birth to it, the Let’s Go Brandon meme is still generating fresh headlines. That’s thanks to the innocent-sounding phrase showing up everywhere from social media posts to the halls of Congress, plus in song titles, on merchandise — and now, somewhat controversially, even the cockpit of a commercial airline. …
Elon Musk: Space enthusiast, technoking of Tesla, enthusiastic tweeter, meme connoisseur — and, now, the richest man on the planet, as the Tesla stock price also just hit an all-time high. Plotted on a graph, the share price of his electric carmaker Tesla since early last year has produced the kind of image that pretty …
The document dump that Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen supplied to a consortium of news publishers, which began publishing a flurry of stories derived from the documents on Monday, revealed, among other things, that Facebook’s leadership has identified a new existential threat to the social networking giant: Old people. More specifically, the users who remain — …
