Maker Of Nutella Buys Hazelnut Supplier To Keep The Choco-Spread Flowing

(ronnyg)

What do hail storms in Turkey have to do with the supply of Nutella at your local grocery store? A lot, actually. Hazelnut prices are away up due to a worldwide shortage. Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, uses about 25% of the hazelnuts in the world. It and simplified its supply chain this year by acquiring a major hazelnut processor, Oltan in Turkey.

Of course, it’s not just Nutella: Fererro also makes plenty of chocolates with hazelnuts. Ferrero Group is best known to Americans for making the unhealthy choco-hazelnut spread Nutella, or maybe for the Ferrero Rocher, a popular candy that also contains hazelnuts. They need a lot of hazelnuts, and with supplies low and prices more than doubling this spring, it makes sense to acquire secure a hazelnut source.

As we’ve told you before, the components necessary to make a single jar of Nutella come from all over the world. azelnuts are grown in the Middle East and parts of Europe, as well as some grown in the United States. Turkey has historically been a source for the nuts, and in a press release, Ferrero praised Oltan’s “historical, valuable, and consolidated presence in the Turkish hazelnut market.”

Nutella Hogs Hazelnuts to Meet the World’s Insatiable Craving for Chocolaty Goodness [Businessweek]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Precios de los smartphones en función del Sistema Operativo #infografia #infographic

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T-Mobile Emphasizes: They’re Probably Not Going To Throttle You

(David Guija Alcaraz)

Imagine being part of a rarified group: your carrier’s top 20 gobblers of unlimited data. At T-Mobile, unlimited data is still a thing, and a recently leaked memo has customers panicking that using too much data will get them throttled. It won’t.

Some people interpreted the leaked message that way, because they apparently didn’t read the memo, or our coverage of it. Big Magenta’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Sievert, reached out to Recode to explain what the company’s new effort to stop “misuse” of data really means.

The company is starting small: they know exactly who the top 20 users of data on the network are, and the company will call them up for a friendly chat. They don’t plan wide-scale throttling…especially now that the Federal Communications Commission is taking a closer look at mobile companies’ policies when it comes to imposing limits on their customers’ data use.

However, that officially only means unauthorized data use, like peer-to-peer downloading or running a live 24/7 webcam. Unlimited means unlimited, Sievert explains. T-Mobile’s throttling should be transparent, because heavy users will receive a warning phone call before the carrier drastically dials back their speeds to slow down their data hogging.

T-Mobile Says It’s Not Planning to Throttle Unlimited Customers [Re/Code] (Thanks, theblackdog!)

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Creator Of Pop-Up Ads Apologizes For Doing His Part To Ruin The Internet

(Misfit Photographer)

Along with auto-play video and auto-refresh webpages, pop-up ads make up the unholy trinity of browsing the Internet. Now, the man who wrote the code for the first ever ad to come out of nowhere and spoil your reading experience is saying he’s sorry to the world.

In a lengthy piece for The Atlantic, Ethan Zuckerman talks about spending the early days of the Internet working for the shapeshifting Tripod.com, which started as content company marketed to recent college grads and eventually became a web-hosting service acquired by Lycos in 1997.

“The model that got us acquired was analyzing users’ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them,” he writes. “Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad.”

The idea, explains Zuckerman, was a way for advertisers to put some distance between their ad and the content on a web page.

“Specifically, we came up with it when a major car company freaked out that they’d bought a banner ad on a page that celebrated anal sex,” he recalls.

Of course, pop-up ads quickly became a way for advertisers to be more intrusive, forcing you to interact with their ad, if only to make it go away.

And while things like pop-up blockers and tab-based browsing have made pop-ups less of a nuisance than they once were, the idea still lives on in countless forms of advertising that put up a roadblock between the user and the content they want to reach.

“I’m sorry,” writes Zuckerman. “Our intentions were good.”

[via The Verge]

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

Salmonella Is Not A Flavor, So McCormick Recalls Ground Oregano

Oregano is a very tasty spice, but do you know what’s not so tasty? Potentially fatal foodborne illness. Routine tests at McCormick spice company turned up salmonella contamination, which may have affected as many as 1,032 cases of the ground herb.

Contamination of spices can be an especially insidious form of foodborne illness because we often apply spices right before eating, eliminating the possibility that any disease-causing organisms could be killed by cooking.

Potentially contaminated jars of ground oregano were sold in forty states and ten countries other than the United States. Look for .75 ounce jars with “best buy” dates of August 21 or 22, 2016.

Instead of returning the container to the store, you should call McCormick directly for a refund or replacement. You can contact them at 1-800-632-5847,

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

McDonald’s Employee Who Left Daughter At Park Suing TV Station For Revealing Personal Details

(Mark Amsterdam)

When someone is arrested, it’s not uncommon for local media reports to say something like “Bob Smith, of the 1900 block of Main St., was charged with…” but you don’t usually get that person’s full home address and Social Security number. Yet that’s what happened when a TV station in South Carolina posted the full, unedited police interview with a McDonald’s employee who’d been arrested for leaving her 9-year-old daughter at a park while she worked.

Earlier this week, the website for WJBF-TV in North Augusta, SC, posted 13 minutes of police interview footage with the woman. The station had obtained the video through a Freedom of Information Act request, but didn’t edit out the portion of the video where she tells police her personal information, including spelling out her name, giving her full address and Social Security number.

The unedited video was on the site for at least an hour, reports the Washington Post, while people pointed out in comments on the story and on the station’s Facebook page that the video included information that should not be there.

The station soon replaced the full clip with one that is slightly shorter and doesn’t include the woman’s personal data, but in her eyes the damage was done.

Her lawyer says she is filing a lawsuit against the station and the reporter for revealing the irrelevant but highly sensitive information in the police interview tape.

South Carolina mom who left daughter at park sues TV station [Washington Post]

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

New Target CEO Promises To Not Turn Retailer Into A Grocery Store

(Mia Oh)

Several years back, we started hearing complaints from Target shoppers that their local stores were eschewing large chunks of floor space that had been dedicated to things like home furnishings and housewares in order to make room for more groceries. Many expressed concern that their beloved quirky-but-affordable retailer was going to become a supermarket chain that also sold towels and sweatpants. The company’s new CEO is now trying to convince those worried customers that Target is not undergoing some radical shift.

“I’m not going to turn Target into a grocery store,” Brian Cornell, who just took over the gig a few days ago, tells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Style, fashion, apparel, it’s core to the DNA of this company.”

Cornell, who coincidentally earned his stripes as an exec at food-oriented businesses like Safeway and PepsiCo, is the first Target CEO to come from outside the company.

Some might think that, being the new guy, he’d be eager to prove his worth by introducing sweeping changes right from the start, but Cornell doesn’t appear to be in any rush.

“I wouldn’t expect any changes in the next few months,” he explains. “I’m going to take my time to learn, to be really thoughtful. I’m going to spend a lot of time listening… I’m going to be a really good student over the next few months.”

Translated, that seems to mean let’s just get through this holiday shopping season without a hugely embarrassing incident like last year, and then we can figure things out.

If Target can make it through the rest of the year without the website issues or credit card hacks that plagued its last few holiday seasons, that would probably be seen as a huge triumph.

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

Comcast Agrees I Didn’t Run Up $343 In Overdue Charges, Still Demands I Pay It Anyway

The Annual Obligatory Post About The Return Of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte

Perhaps it’s the (thankfully) unseasonable fall-like weather today in these parts, but there is a sense of autumn in the air. Or maybe it’s just that Starbucks has begun the annual ritual of dangling its Pumpkin Spice Lattes in front of everyone’s noses.

The ‘bucks recently announced on the drink’s Twitter account — yes, a beverage that is only on sale for a couple months out of the year has its more followers than most humans — that the limited-time gourd-flavored hot beverage will go on sale Aug. 25 this year, which is earlier than usual for the PSL.

And if history has taught us anything, it’s that some Starbucks stores will just go ahead and start selling the pumpkin-y, spicy, latte-y drink whenever they damn-well feel like.

So now is the time for PSL fans to start hassling their local Stabucks to just start making the drinks already and save customers the apparent agony of having to wait.

As for me, I make my own PSL at home by shoving an entire can of pumpkin, some clotted cream, a handful of cloves, some cinnamon sticks, and a few tablespoons of recycled coffee grounds in my Mr. Coffee. It’s a work in progress, and only four of my friends have gotten ill after trying it.

[via Eater]

by Chris Morran via Consumerist