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Activists Target Trader Joe's Over a Trashy, Tragic Practice
3:30PM 7/07/2011
Lots of people adore Trader Joe's, but it's not always perfect in its corporate citizenship. One failing in particular has the activists at Change.org and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Seifert picking fight with the funky grocer: They're accusing the chain of wasting tons of food.
Food police bust chain restaurants for super-sized portions
6:00PM 8/30/2010
Although McDonald's retired the "super-sized" option from its menus in 2004, chain restaurants continue to redefine the size of a typical serving of food, often doubling or tripling official government serving sizes, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
While a typical...
McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi starting in January
12:00PM 12/16/2009
Next year could be when free Wi-Fi becomes as ubiquitous as the Dollar Menu thanks to a recent announcement by McDonald's that nearly every Golden Arches location will begin offering free wireless Internet beginning in January. Currently, the service, costs $2.95 for 2 hours of service at 11,000...
In times like these, people: they want quality, not quantity; and they'd rather stick with reliable businesses no matter what the price. The company that survives? It'll offer plenty of valuable perks; customers in the know are happy to pay more for good service with the extras.Wait: huh?That's...
Conventional wisdom holds that, when it comes to fast food in a recession, less is decidedly more. In this perspective, desperate consumers, prioritizing price above pleasure, rush into feed stations, fill up on the calories that they need to get through the day, and rush out again. Ingredients and...
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