This Smoke Alarm Delivers McDonald’s When it Senses You’ve Burned Dinner What's your plan B for when you burn dinner? Well, the world's largest fast-food chain McDonald's hopes to make itself an automatic default as just that with a newly developed smoke alarm that places an order to the closest McDonald's restaurant whenever it senses
To Attract Gen Z Shoppers, Macy’s Expands its Private Brands Private label is a veritable gold rush these days with a number of retailers, from Amazon to Bed Bath & Beyond, aiming to attract shoppers with store-owned brands. Macy's is no stranger to this accelerating trend. The iconic department store recently launched an apparel line
How Do You Highlight the Frustration of Tampon Dispensers? Make Men Pay for Toilet Paper For decades, women have had to deal with infuriating, unreliable tampon dispensers in public restrooms, where if you're lucky enough to find one working, you're almost sure to find it out of stock. But all the frustrations about how (or
How the Revolutionary ‘Cheese Food’ Velveeta Became a Super Bowl Staple Exactly six years ago, as football fans were gearing up for Super Bowl XLVIII, a minor crisis erupted in the shopping aisles of America. It began as a rumor, a suspected hoax, until Kraft Foods took to Facebook to confirm the worst in a
This Chain Wrote a Carol for Its Christmas Pizza and Made a Box That Sings It to You Christmas carolers don't always have to be dressed up like they've just stepped out of a Dickens novel in order to serenade you. In fact, they apparently don't even have to be human. This holiday season, a
Popeyes’ Chicken Sandwich Will Return This Sunday (While Chick-fil-A Is Closed) When a fast food chain says it's sold out of a product, you'd probably expect to see the item back on sale within 24 hours. In this case, it's been two months. Near the end of August, Popeyes announced that its new chicken sandwich--which
Move Over, Big Mac—McDonald’s Joins the Beyond Burger Game McDonald's has no beef with adding Beyond Burgers to its menu, at least temporarily. The fast-food chain plans to test alternative meat burgers at 28 locations starting Sept. 30. Beyond Meat created an exclusive plant-based patty for McDonald's. The result: PLT--plant, lettuce, tomato--is a twist on
