Amazon Reportedly Wants to Treat Your Dog via Webcam

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Amazon is doing more than just selling you things you don’t need and producing some gruesome TV—now, they want to get into the veterinary business.

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Walmart shoppers say they are fed up with the store's self-checkout system

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Walmart began rolling out a missed-scan feature for its self-checkout lanes starting in 2019.

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Spooktober Halloween Must-Haves to Add to Your Shopping List

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Get those spooky season viral outfits, accessories, and treats, or throw something together for a cozy costume from retailers like BoxLunch,

More than 2,800 stores are closing across the US in 2023. Here's the full list.

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Bed Bath & Beyond closed 896 stores in 2023.

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Costco-style free samples are popping up at Walmart and other stores as brands try to get you to buy their stuff

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A worker prepares bread to offer as samples to shoppers in a Costco warehouse
A worker prepares bread to offer as samples to shoppers in a Costco warehouse.

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Best Buy Plans to Rid Itself of All DVDs

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Mark another notch in the slow demise of physical media. On Friday, massive electronics store chain Best Buy confirmed that it will stop selling all DVDs and Blu-Rays starting in the new year.

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Retailers are using a simple mind trick on you to make their discounts seem bigger than they are

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A Star Wars fan dressed up as Luke Skywalker during a screening of ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
A Star Wars fan dressed up as Luke Skywalker during a screening of ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."

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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech

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If the missed-scan detection technology detects a problem a light above the machine illuminates, and it sends a text notification to a handheld device for employees assigned to the area.

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Walmart says customers on Ozempic are actually spending more money overall

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Analysts found customers taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic gs are spending more in total with Walmart.

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Firefox Is Testing a New Feature to Weed Out Fake Customer Reviews

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According to a recent story by MSPowerUser, Mozilla Firefox has recently been testing an experimental feature called Review Checker. This feature is powered by Fakespot, which Firefox acquired earlier this year.

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