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Detergent Pod User? We Want To Hear From You
Do you use detergent pods, the single-serve laundry sensation that small children can’t stop cramming in their mouths? If so, our freshly-laundered colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports would like some feedback from you on the products, especially if you have small children living with you. Click here to take their brief questionnaire on the subject.
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
British Library Putting Hundreds Of Important Literary Resources Online
Charlotte Bronte’s earliest known writing. (British Library)
If you’ve read every word in print by Jane Austen, or pored over Oscar Wilde’s plays until your eyeballs felt like they’d been open since the 16th century, you’ll probably be pretty excited over the British Library’s new site featuring hundreds of manuscripts, papers and other documents from England’s brightest literary minds.
The Library unveiled the treasure trove today, which contains digital versions of 1,200 handwritten manuscripts, diaries and letters from Romantic and Victorian writers including Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, the Bronte sisters, Wilde, Austen and more, reports the Associated Press.
One big draw — an 1826 miniature book with a short story illustrated with tiny drawings by Charlotte Bronte for her sister Anne. It’s the earlies known work by Bronte, and shows signs that the family was already on the writerly path early on.
You can also see a lock of Percy Bysshe Shellye’s hair or check out William Blake’s notebook with sketches and drafts of poems like “The Tyger,” as well as notes from Austen talking about dealing with critiques of her work. One such note from a peer calls Pride and Prejudice “downright nonsense.”
It is a truth universally acknowledged that you showed those haters what for on that front, huh Jane?
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
Millions Of Consumers Leaving Winter Behind By Traveling This Memorial Day
Consumers have their cars gassed up and their plane tickets purchased for the unofficial start to summer that is just a week away. And the number of people partaking in welcoming summer by traveling is the highest it’s been in more than a decade.
AAA estimates 36.1 million people will put the long, rough winter in the rearview mirror by traveling during the Memorial Day holiday, USA Today reports.
This year’s estimate, which includes nearly 31.8 million consumers traveling by automobile, is a 1.5% increase over the number of travelers last year.
Nearly 2.6 million consumers will fly to their Memorial weekend destination, while 1.7 million will travel by train, bus or ship.
The higher number of travelers this year represents the most since 2000, and the highest since the beginning of the Great Recession.
Marshall Doney, AAA’s chief operating officers, says the increase in travelers could be related to the unusually tough winter many experienced this year.
“While the start of summer brings thoughts of sandy beaches, warmer temperatures and tropical destinations, it is in fact the freezing cold winter that blanketed much of the country earlier this year that has generated hot demand for summer travel,” Doney says. “The (travel) forecast reflects that many people are sick of hibernating indoors and ready to enjoy some summer fun.”
Other industries are also seeing an increase in travelers this year. Best Western hotels estimates at 7% increase in travelers over last summer’s bookings.
AAA officials say the cruise industry is faring particularly well this year. An increase of nearly 20% is expected in passengers for the upcoming holiday.
Additionally, the airline industry may be rejoicing in the estimated increase in travelers. This past winter saw the most flight cancellations in decades due to poor weather.
Consumers hoping to get a jump-start on the holiday weekend should hit the road Thursday or early Friday. If you simply can’t leave work early, congestion mitigation experts suggest leaving after 7 p.m. Friday.
While taking off for the weekend generally involves opening your wallet, officials with AAA say it shouldn’t be too painful. Gas prices are expected to continue falling during the weekend. Prices currently average $3.65 per gallon, while they were $3.63 a gallon last year.
AAA says 36.1 million will travel this Memorial Day [USA Today]
by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist
Researchers Say “Best Before” Dates Result In Massive Amounts Of Wasted Food
If you’re a regular reader of Consumerist, you’re likely aware that there’s a big difference between a “use by” and a “best before” date; the former is a sign that the food may be unsafe to eat after a certain date (though even that’s not always true) while the latter is an indicator that the item might not taste its best after that date, but is still safe to eat. However, many people don’t understand this distinction — and tons of food is wasted every year as a result.
Reuters reports on a new discussion paper, put forth by Sweden and the Netherlands, about food waste in the European Union and calling into question the need for “best before” dates on products with a long shelf life.
According to the researchers, 100 million tons of food is unnecessarily thrown away every year in the EU because of this confusion. This waste has a two-pronged impact — environmentally, it’s more stuff being thrown out that doesn’t need to be; economically, it’s consumers paying for food they don’t eat, or stores throwing away food they don’t sell.
Stateside, former Trader Joe’s president Doug Rauch has been launching a pilot store called The Daily Table, to sell perfectly good food that grocery stores like his former employer would deem no longer sellable because it has passed a certain date.
by Chris Morran via Consumerist
GM To Pay $35 Million Fine For Botched Ignition Switch Recall
GM will be paying a record-setting $35 million fine over its completely botched decade-long ignition-switch defect and subsequent recall, the Department of Transportation announced today.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded its investigation into the GM recall this week. Problems with the ignition switch were first identified in 2001, but a full recall on cars using the defective part was not issued until 2014, by which point at least 13 people had died. The subsequent timeline and investigations highlighted not only internal problems with GM, but also brought to light holes in the safety regulation process.
In addition to the $35 million penalty, the NHTSA has ordered GM to make “significant and wide-ranging internal changes to its review of safety-related issues,” and to submit to increased oversight from the agency. If GM does not fully comply, everything they agreed to today is “immediately enforceable” in federal court.
GM has also agreed to “provide NHTSA with full access to the results of GM’s internal investigation into this recall, to take steps to ensure its employees report safety-related concerns to management, and to speed up the process for GM to decide whether to recall vehicles.”
The fine is the highest ever paid as a result of violations stemming from a recall, the NHTSA said in a press release. GM will also be paying additional, much smaller fines for not responding to the agency’s requests for documentation in a timely manner.
In a statement, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made it clear that although the $35 million number is a record high, he’d be happy for it to be even higher: “While we will continue to aggressively monitor GM’s efforts in this case, we also urge Congress to support our GROW AMERICA Act, which would increase the penalties we could levy in cases like this from $35 million to $300 million, sending an even stronger message that delays will not be tolerated.”
GM has also been under investigation on several other fronts in relation to the epically botched recall since the start of the year. The company is also facing a number of lawsuits from owners and drivers of the affected cars.
by Kate Cox via Consumerist
SeaWorld Employee Accused Of Stealing Cash, Credit Cards From Park Visitors
Everyone knows amusement parks are a drain on your wallet — all those snacks to buy, the T-shirt in the gift shop your kid’s just gotta have or she will explode, not to mention the admission price. But police say some visitors to SeaWorld in Orlando saw their money walk away in a less fun manner, alleging that a worker was pilfering visitors’ belongings.
A SeaWorld guest complained that her purse had been stolen, leading to park security to tighten things up and keep a watchful eye out, reports WESH.com.
Police say that one worker was spotted going through guests’ bags, purses and strollers sitting outside Shamu Stadium, and was then arrested on grand theft charges.
One guest wasn’t surprised that the area would be targeted, flush as it is with strollers.
“Just in general, there are a lot of strollers in the parking area. It wouldn’t be uncommon to see 30 or more lined up,” she explained. “We would park ours there but we were always cautious to make sure we took our valuables with us.”
Police are staying tight-lipped about most of the details of the alleged crimes, noting only that SeaWorld had surveillance video showing her using stolen credit cards at a local restaurant.
“We’re working closely with investigators from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office,” said a SeaWorld spokesman. “Because this [is an] ongoing law enforcement investigation, I’m unable to give any more details.”
SeaWorld employee accused of stealing cash, credit cards from guests [WESH.com]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are fifteen of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or for just plain neatness.
(Scott Akerman gave this photo the caption, “We lost the magic of giving basic electronics awesome names.”)
Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Want to see your pictures on our site? Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click “Join Group?” up on the top right. Choose your best photos, then click “send to group” on the individual images you want to add to the pool.
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
Darden Restaurants Selling Off Red Lobster Chain For $2.1 Billion
As was foretold back in December, Darden Restaurants is chucking its catch back into the sea, and getting a nice chunk of change for it: The company announced that it’s selling seafood chain Red Lobster off to investment firm Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion in cash.
Red Lobster’s former parent company, which also owns Olive Garden, had said last year that it was going to try to either spin off its 705 U.S. and Canada Red Lobster locations or just sell them off outright. It seems it decided to go with the latter.
The issue lies with slow business at its chains, as they leak customers to other chains like Chipotle, which customers like for the better-than-fast-food food without having to sit down and order from a menu.
Red Lobster first opened in 1968, notes the Associated Press, and was on the forefront of the seafood cuisine movement for many Americans, who might not have dined on the cuisine otherwise. But as things started to go south, Darden tried adding non-seafood items to the menu, which didn’t really help much.
For now, it seems Darden will have enough on its plate just trying to fix Olive Garden through a so-called “brand renaissance.”
Prepare to bid Red Lobster goodbye soon enough — Darden says it expects to close the deal in its first fiscal quarter of 2015.
Darden Announces Sale of Red Lobster for $2.1B [Associated Press]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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