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Pepsi Introduces A “Craft” Soda Made With Cane Sugar

Crafty.

PepsiCo is hopping on the ye olde bandwagon and going back to the days when soda was sweetened with sugar, and free of artificial sweeteners or high-fructose corn syrup. Dubbing its new craft soda Caleb’s Kola, Pepsi says the drink is made with cane sugar, “a special blend of spices” and a kola nut extract.

The beverage is named after Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist who came up with the Pepsi formula in the 1890s, reports the Associated Press, further rooting the drink’s image in the sepia-toned past.

Each 10-ounce bottle comes with 110 calories and 29 grams of sugar, as well as an entourage of marketing hashtags meant to position this drink among the other old timey sodas known as craft drinks — #craft, #mixology, #honorincraft, you get the point. Gotta get those millenials!

Caleb’s Kola will hit shelves at certain Costco locations in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, with plans to expanded wider later.

Pepsi Is Launching A ‘Craft’ Soda [Associated Press]

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

Barcelona Comedy Club Charges Customers Per Laugh

Tablets equipped with facial recognition software records how often customers laugh during comedy shows.

I love comedy clubs. From well-known venues like the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York to the smaller haunts like Sanford’s in Kansas City, step foot any one of the hundreds of comedy clubs around the country and you’ll likely laugh – a lot. That’s usually not a problem, but if you’re heading to a club in Barcelona either come armed with a lot of cash or a straight-up poker face, because you’re about to be charged per laugh.

The BBC reports that a comedy club in Barcelona is currently experimenting with the new payment system that uses facial-recognition technology to track how much visitors enjoy the show.

The facial recognition software is installed on tablets attached to the back of each seat in the club. For each laugh customers emit they’ll be charged 0.30 euros, or $0.38, up to a maximum of 24 euros, or $30.45 per visit.

Officials with the club say the pay-per-laugh system was a project developed to combat falling audience numbers after the government increased taxes on theater tickets.

So far, the club says, the experiment has proved to be a positive experience, with overall ticket prices up.

Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition [BBC]

by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist

12-Year-Old Girl Writes Letter To Dick’s Sporting Goods Explaining That Women Also Play Basketball

(MGChan)

While it’s all well and good for us adults to stand up for gender equality in kids’ products, there’s something about kids themselves taking retailers to task for not giving both boys and girls a fair shake. Leading the pack of girls who aren’t about to take a boys-only view of the sports world this week is a 12-year-old who was so disappointed in Dick’s Sporting Goods for not featuring women in a recent basketball catalog, she took the company to task in a scathing, informed and otherwise wonderful letter.

Showing everyone else how it’s done in a letter addressed to Dick’s Sporting Goods and posted by her dad on Twitter — sports writer Chris Peterson — the middle school basketball player lays it on the line (h/t Jezebel).

She points out that she herself, plays basketball, and enjoys watching the sport so much, she had season tickets for her state women’s team, the Phoenix Mercury.

“I don’t know if you are keeping track of the ladies sports world, but they are the Western Conference Champions AND the League Champions of 2014,” she points out, rattling off some other key players in the sport.

Her point, however, is that “There are NO girls in the catalog!” Except, she adds, the girl sitting in the stands on one page, some cheerleaders on coupons and a reference to women on one page for shoes.

“It’s hard enough for girls to break through in this sport as it is, without you guys excluding us from your catalog. Girls buy stuff from your store,” she very eloquently adds. “In fact, my last two pairs of basketball shoes were purchased at Dicks, as well as my hoop and practice equipment. Maybe my dad will take me to some other store that supports girls to actually PLAY basketball and follow their dreams and not sit on the sidelines and watch the game to get my next pair of shoes and equipment.”

OH SNAP, MCKENNA! Here’s where we high five.

She goes on to say that she looks forward to seeing girls in the next basketball catalog, and is considerate enough to compliment Dick’s staff for being “very friendly and kind” when she goes there to get new shoes.

She signs it, adding, “The Fabulous Basketball Player.” Fabulous, indeed.

Her dad’s tweet:

My 12yr old basketball loving daughter got the latest @DICKS catalog & had a big problem with it. She wrote a letter. http://ift.tt/1w3K8KU

— ChrisPetersonTCS (@TheCheapSeatsTV) October 9, 2014

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

Ice Cream Hack: Dairy Queen, Orange Julius Latest Companies Hit By A Data Breach

(Paxton Holley)

A trip to the local Dairy Queen usually ends in a tasty, cool treat, but customers are nearly 400 stores it ended with a decidedly less delicious surprise: A security breach.

CNN Money reports that 395 Dairy Queen locations and one Orange Julius location have become the latest victims of a security breach.

Officials with the ice cream store say in a news release that between August and October malware called Backoff accessed systems through a third-party vendor’s comprised account credentials.

While the company says the breach has been contained, customer names, payment card numbers and expiration dates were vulnerable through the hack.

The company says there is no evidence that personal information such as Social Security numbers, PINs or email addresses were compromised as a result of the malware.

A full list of stores affected by the hack has been posted online.

Dairy Queen is offering customers who used a credit or debit card at one of the hacked restaurants during the affected time period one year of free identity repair services.

Dairy Queen customers get hacked [CNN Money]

by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

Here are twelve 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.

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(Joe White) Hint: read the sign.

(Dave Bloom)

(Renee Rendler-Kaplan)

(Chri S)

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

Do You Ever Shop Anywhere? Congratulations: Your Data Will Be Hacked

Colin Kaepernick Fined $10K For Wearing The Wrong Headphones

As we mentioned earlier this week, the NFL has banned players from wearing any non-Bose headphones on the field, in the locker room or while talking to the press after the game. Which is why San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick is being hit with a $10,000 fine for sporting a pair of the Beats headphones (that he gets paid a lot more than ten grand to endorse).

NFL.com writes that Kaepernick, who is seen above in a still image from one of his TV ads for Beats, confirmed on Thursday that he’d been fined for wearing the decidedly non-Bose headgear while chatting with the press after last weekend’s victory against the Kansas City Chiefs.

No one likes to scoff at being fined $10,000, but since Kaepernick signed a deal in June that could pay him upwards of $126 over the next six seasons, it’s a fine he can afford to pay.

It’s also possible that Beats, which is now owned by Apple, could reimburse Kaepernick. After all, the mere coverage of this story is probably worth more publicity than any more-expensive TV ad could have given Beats.

But Kaepernick isn’t saying who will pick up the tab for the fine, telling reporters, “We’ll let that be unanswered.”

by Chris Morran via Consumerist