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• BigBox DVD movie rental now in Twin Cities, offers DVDs and Blu-rays by the hour

  
  HD-Report — Authority: 473
  BigBox DVD rental kiosks offer something different than other movie rental services, renting by the hour. According to the company, you can rent a new DVD release for as little as 6 cents per hour, older than one year DVDs for 4 cents per hour, and Blu-ray Discs for 9 cents per hour. A little math…24x.09=$2.16. Not ...
  21 hours ago

• Walmart Staying Open Later on Christmas Eve

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  Its no surprise that stores like Walmart are starting to stay open later on Christmas Eve. It makes my skullhead ache to think where we will be in five years. Will stores being staying open till 11 on Xmas Eve and opening at 7 on Xmas day? Will they start catering to all those scrooges who suddenly decide to get ...
  23 hours ago

• Kmart Workers Find $10k Tin Can

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  Did you leave your tin can filled with over $10,000 on the customer service counter of a Des Moines Kmart? Because if you did, call them, they found it. Employees ignored the tin can for four days, which makes me think I must have looked like a tin can the last time I went to a discount stores customer service ...
  1 day ago

• Discount Rat Causes Holiday Hell

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  Hey RHU, its Retail Drone again. Except, Im changing my name. You can call me Santas Bitch. Because I am. Minus the Victoria Secrets Mrs. Claus outfit.   So I know that Black Friday has gone and past, and many of us arestill drinking away our sorrows because of it. Im one of them. DearGod, I officially hate ...
  1 day ago

• Lowes Travels To The Future To Discount Your Appliances

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  Mary was purchasing a washer and dryer set for her home at Lowes. Just as she was finalizing the purchase, a sales circular with a lower price on the very appliance she was buying dropped through the time/space continuum, and visited the store from the future. Or maybe an employee put it out early. Either way, the ...
  3 days ago

• Wal-Mart creates Facebook app to support troops

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  Wal-Mart has created a Facebook application, Show of Support. It works like this: Users download the app, which will appear on their Facebook profile page. The app allows visitors to show support to a friend or family member serving in the military. Other Facebook members can be recruited as supporters, and ...
  3 days ago

• Bitchy Discount Rat Gets Told

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  An Anonymous Retail Slave at a Big Box Store wants to give a shout out to one of her Managers and were following it up with a Retail Balls Award! Iwork service desk at the store with the Bullseye, and am lucky enoughto have a pretty good management team. I havent had to exercise my Retail Balls yet, but this is ...
  3 days ago

• Retail Death: Coupon Hell

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  Webcomic Retail Death on coupons: "I’ve seen the logic displayed above exercised by customers on many different occasions in many different situations.  Not this specific one very often, as my store always had higher prices than others.  But the “I’m right even if I’m not” logic, a point of pride for so ...
  5 days ago

• Change in Board Membership After Vote on Application but Before Written Decision Does Not Invalidate Vote; and No Ethical Violation in Meeting with Applicant Before Submission

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 425
  Following zoning board approval of a conditional use permit in December 2005 for a 225,000 sq. ft. Wal-Mart Supercenter and Tire Lube Express Store after 16 public hearings on the application which had commenced in July 2005, neighbors challenged the 2-1 vote to approve since one board a member was replaced on January ...
  5 days ago

• Wal-Mart Greeter Hospitalized After Being Punched by Shopper

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  Miri alerted us to this sad story of a 72 year-old Walmart Greeter being attacked. What the fuck is wrong with people? Wal-Mart Greeter Hospitalized After Being Punched by Shopper - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis
  5 days ago

• Wal-Mart to pay $40 million to settle labor lawsuit in Massachusetts

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Wal-Mart Stores Wal-Mart Stores ( WMT ) has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts that alleged the big-box retailer cheated 87,500 current and former employees in the state out of pay and failed to obey work rules. The class-action suit, filed in 2001, accused Wal-Mart ...
  5 days ago

• Customer Makes 2-Hour Best Buy Trek For Vanishing Netbook

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  Valentes plan was simple enough: Purchase a netbook from Best Buy during Cyber Monday sale. Order it from Best Buys web site for in-store pickup so he could be sure to have it in hand. Bring netbook home and hide it from his son until Christmas. Unfortunately, he tells Consumerist, the transaction didnt work out ...
  5 days ago

• Spend Like Santa, Save Like Scrooge

  
  The Eagle & Child — Authority: 120
  I noticed today that next semester’s textbooks are starting to arrive at the college bookstore on campus.  I had considered buying them from Amazon–mostly because I wasn’t sure if the texts would be available before Christmas, but also because I could, in some cases, save up to 50% of the cover price by ...
  5 days ago

• Frys Employee Says Store Offered Black Friday Line-Skipping Deal

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  An Oregon employee of Frys Electronics says his store offered a shady Black Friday deal that let customers skip lines if they bought a certain router. Taking the name George Orwell, he writes: Im an employee at Frys in [redacted] and we were told this year that if a customer bought a wifi install for $100 and a ...
  6 days ago

• Lying Piggy Bitch Shopper Gets Told

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  Retail Slut Stevie, is getting a Retail Balls Award for this post on how she handled being in line behind a disgusting Piggy Shopper who attempts to lie.... First off, let me say that in the near five years Ive been in the workforce, Ive experienced nearly all types of Retail Hell. Ive been infast food, large chain ...
  6 days ago

• 36000 USA Flu Deaths Every Year

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 128
  Boston             After discussing Citizen Wealth in Harvard Square at the Co-op, I found myself fascinated by a similar maximum eligible participation type of problem while talking to a friend who is a public health nurse with the City of Boston.  I asked her a casual question about how work was ...
  1 week ago

• Retailicious Day

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  From Tama: Sunday was a good day. Id been, um, having some digestivedifficulties while on the register not even 30 minutes, so the CSM said"Well okay well move you to 19 in case you have to run to the bathroomagain" and 19 is right next to the bathroom. She let me stay there formost of the day. Secondly, we are ...
  1 week ago

• Douchy Dumbass Newbie Gets Busted

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  From Walmart Bitch: So we got a transfer from another state, she knows what shes doing ... and I liked her until today. I was scheduled 9-6, went in at 7 because they didnt have an opener, there was another girl coming in at 9 and New Girl from 12-9. I went on my lunch at 12:15 when she finally got her ass ...
  1 week ago

• Penny Hell at Best Buy

  
  Retail Hell Underground — Authority: 143
  From Jit:  Augh! My braiiiin. I read this site called My Life Is Average One of the posts:  "Today, I went to Best Buy. As I was waiting in line, the guy in frontof me went to buy a $20 gift card with 5 plastic bags full of pennies.After an argument with the cashier, the manager came to the registerand told ...
  1 week ago

• Use The Internet To Subvert Bogus Best Buy Optimization Fees

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  Patrick discovered a clever way of avoiding Best Buys silly optimization fees as he shopped for a laptop: Shop online and opt for in-store pickup. The revelation came after a runaround in which Patrick had to drive across town to pick up his laptop, then was charged two different optimization fees as he tried to buy ...
  1 week ago

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