Business Buzz Mom-and-Pop stores should continue to cower in fear as this live map demonstrates the frighteningly rapid growth of America’s most ubiquitous superstore. Why do we feel so much less dirty shopping at Costco? Two words: free samples.
Food Buzz But only for three hours. All American locations were shut down temporarily so that employees could, in the words of one mocking headline, “learn how to make coffee.” Hopefully, anti-Starbucks crusader Reverend Billy enjoyed his brief respite from battling the tyranny of burnt-tasting java and pleasing adult-contemporary sounds. But he’ll have to regroup to fight the chain’s sinister “phase two of operation.”
Food Buzz Apple extract, plain caramel coloring, coffee leaf, tantaric acid, gum arabic, cane sugar and sparkling water combine to make Pepsi’s less fizzy, “healthy” new beverage, which has made its debut in England. You know what would go great with Pepsi Raw? Some free-range Twinkies or maybe some grass-fed Dipsy Doodles.