Wal mart cakes yo gabba gabba

Hey guys, there’s this one song I’m looking for. It was from a kid’s tv show/movie thing (maybe a VHS?) and it was their goodbye song. I’m pretty sure it’s from the deep recesses of my childhood memory because it appeared in a vivid dream I had last night. The vocaroo may not be COMPLETELY accurate, but I know the note in “bye” is supposed to be either a sharp or a flat.
https://voca.ro/18fCyJmb8UNc
EDIT: Just remembered what it was. The tune I remember was the “Dreams” song from Yo Gabba Gabba, but for some reason my dream turned it into a goodbye song.

"Un mounstruo!"
No son ningunos pendejos saben bien bien que es lo que estaban hablando...
Siguieron buscando como pasarse de verga, con la tal Iglesia. Es una historia para minusvalidos...
El puto que la violo... "Una hermanita...." El tenia... le decian a Erin de pequena... eso era una mamada...
"El chicharron..." mas que el puto chicharron... un grupo de putos, que me tomaban una foto, comiendo, en Espana, los primos del jodido ese... llegaban los amiguitos de la novoespana...
Siguieron con eso... como el puto que escribia en el periodico "No bajen la guardia..." y eso no se me baja... por las puterias de estos estupidos... "COS" y Diego Santoy...
Cual Santoyo... puras mamadas... metanle un palo se le llene... asi lo liberamos... lo desahogamos...
Todo me lo se.... puras culeradas.. "Metanle un olote" por favor chinguen a su madre...
No me interesa de ustedes absolutamente nada... es una pena y una verguenza...
El trabajo de el gran Hartmann... en la entrada izquierda de un Wal Mart de EEUU... lleno de cajas de chingaderas decian "Made un China". Shipping Marks...
Mi suegra salia con unas cajas y Steven con Shipping Marks... atras....
"Es una pasadez de verga..." queremos seguir con esto... hasta QUE CHINGUEN A SU PUTISIMA MADRE... INCONSCIENTES...
Hacerse pasar por algo... que sirve... y no sirven para una puta madre... DISPARA! y nada... vayanse a la verga con GHANDI su padre y LA PUTA DE SU PUTA MADRE... de 2 MATRIMONIOS,,,
Que yo se los tengo que pagar? vayanse a la verga.

I'm reposting this from a while ago because it's still bothering me. I look at the VHS wall in every thrift store I'm in and I still haven't found it. I'm trying to remember a VHS tape that my grandma had at her house in Michigan that I watched in the early 2000s. My brother was born in 1994 so the program may be from a few years older than him up to from 2001. It's most likely an off-brand or small production program, I don't think it's anything super populawell-known.
The only thing I know for a fact is that the VHS dust cover was cardboard and magenta in color. This is the most important and vivid part to me. I am mostly certain that the main character on the cover (and in a little square on the side) was a pink mascot. Like a person in a costume with tubes for arms and legs and a round face and antennae or pigtails. I don't think there were real people in this program but there might have been human kids. There may have also been a rainbow on the cover or in the program but I may be confusing that with Reading Rainbow. I'm not sure if this was a show or a movie, all I know is it was on a VHS tape.
Things I have confirmed from my previous post that I am not thinking of:

• Barney
• Teletubbies
• Kidsongs
• Allegra's Window
• Eureka's Castle
• The Bugaloos
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids
• Bear in the Big Blue House
• Doodlebops
• Yo Gabba Gabba
• Gullah Gullah Island
• Bug Alert!
• Johnson & Friends
• The Big Comfy Couch
• Wimzies House
• The Backyardigans

Thank you to anyone who can help out with this one!

After hearing Noggin was shutting down later this year, I wanted to make a Top 10 Best Nick Jr TV shows I grew up watching. So here's my list:
1.) Backyardigans
2.) Teletubbies
3.) Yo Gabba Gabba
4.) Wonder Pets
5.) Oobi
6.) Fresh Beat Band
7.) Peppa Pig
8.) Nin Hao Kilan
9.) Max and Ruby
10.) Little Bill

That’s what this show reminds me of. I was going to say “an adult version” but that wouldn’t be genuine. It’s just the same to me. Random and musical guests and funny and wholesome. Anyone else remember?

What happened to the kids on yo gabba gabba? My little cousin used to watch it religiously all day and i just thought what are those actors doing now? Are any famous?
At least with the teens/kids react yt channel, some moved on to be i fluencers or better things.

I am a big fan of weirdcore/kidcore/dreamcore/clowncore music. A few years ago I found a song but the only thing I remember about it was it had a really kid like feel and it was about cookies or something like that. I have absolutely no info other than that. The band sounded straight out of yo gabba gabba or blues clues. i also remember the singer being a female and another song or the same song of theirs might have had them running around outside. It was a very slow childish song. I would appreciate if someone knew any ideas?
Edit: there might have been another somg/ same song about shoes or jump rope I can’t really remember

I am a big fan of weirdcore/kidcore/dreamcore/clowncore music. A few years ago I found a song but the only thing I remember about it was it had a really kid like feel and it was about cookies or something like that. I have absolutely no info other than that. The band sounded straight out of yo gabba gabba or blues clues. i also remember the singer being a female and another song or the same song of theirs might have had them running around outside. It was a very slow childish song. I would appreciate if someone knew any ideas?
Edit: there might have been another somg/ same song about shoes or jump rope I can’t really remember

Hi all, little lot here willing to negotiate and bundle if interested. Will calculate shipping estimate at the time of negotiation. Looking to trade for any of my ISOs at the bottom - willing to look at anything and can be OOB or boxed. Conditions of the below vary. Can confirm exclusives are in good condition, can provide close ups on request.
https://imgur.com/a/MkKfOGD
Ghostbusters - OOB - Scary Library Ghost (Translucent) Exclusive - $25 Ghostbusters Afterlife - OOB – Lucky - $5 Ghostbusters Afterlife – OOB - Podcast- $5 Yu -Gi-Oh - Blue-eyes White Toon Dragon - GS Exclusive - $20 Halloween - Michael Myers – $5 Freddy Funko as the Flash- SDCC 2023 Fun on the Run - $15 SDCC 2022 Hall H Freddy Funko- $35 Funamuck Bears - Camp Fundays - $25 Camp Fundays 2023 Freddy Funko As Dustin Stranger Soda - Common - $10 Soda Pete – Common - $10 Bitty Pop Funkoville - Shared - $40 Bitty Pop Friends - Common - $5 Bitty Pop Friends - Chase - $10 Kid Loki - OOB - $5 Rick and Morty Hallmark Ornaments - $10
ISO:
Scooby Doo, Simpsons, The Office, Digimon, Disney (Classic), Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynomite, Horror, Kingdom Hearts, Halo, Yo Gabba Gabba and others
(Sorry not interested in other Anime, Marvel, DC)

Hi ShopifyeCommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of the week's top stories, which I cover in depth in the newsletter. Let's dive in...
Amazon is delaying its controversial new low inventory fee for the second time as it looks to satiate the hundreds of thousands of sellers it outraged with the original announcement. The company announced via its seller forum that it would be extending the grace period through May 14th. In addition to the delay, Amazon made some general changes to the upcoming fee structure such as the fee will not apply to products that have sold fewer than 20 units in the last week, any fees incurred due to excessive inbounding and processing times caused by Amazon will be refunded, and Amazon will provide an exception to the fee on products that are part of Prime-exclusive sales for the four weeks following Prime Day.
Shein has been courting brands like Colgate-Palmolive, Hasbro, Suntory Beverage & Food, and Bella Aurora in an attempt to sell more household names on its platform. The company, which is known for selling its own cheap clothing and accessories, is moving into other categories like beauty and household items to better compete with Amazon on its turf. So far Shein has given brands and retailers access to its platform in nine European countries, United States, Brazil and Mexico. Shein says that the inspiration for adding new categories is that customers were already searching for those types of products and brands across its platform.
Kohl's is re-entering the same-day delivery business — this time leveraging the Instacart app and its network of drivers. The company says that Instacart enables 109M US households to obtain delivery in as fast as an hour from 1,172 Kohl's stores across the U.S. Customers ordering Kohl's deliveries on Instacart can still earn their Kohl's Rewards loyalty points, as well as place orders for either same-day or scheduled delivery, with the same prices as in-store. Product categories eligible for same-day delivery include accessories, home goods, beauty & skincare items, and pet supplies.
As part of its mission to enhance its e-commerce business, Nordstrom introduced a new digital marketplace on its website, initially showcasing a selection of products from Mulberry, Adore Me, Cynthia Rowley, and DXL. This move catches Nordstrom up to retailers like Macy's, Walmart, and Michaels, which have all created third-party marketplaces in recent years. As opposed to casting a wide net, Nordstrom is being very particular about which sellers to allow on its marketplace, carefully selecting brand partners “to ensure that our marketplace experience drives the relevance and inspiration that Nordstrom customers expect from us.”
Walmart is now able to sell physical goods directly to users inside Roblox for the first time. The introduction of real-life e-commerce of tangible items is a milestone for Roblox, which aims to become an all-encompassing destination for virtual life. Virtual users are greeted with a new storefront that showcases virtual copies of physical items sold at real-life Walmart stores. The customer can try out the virtual item on their avatar. Customers can then load a virtual browser window inside Roblox that imitates the experience of shopping on Walmart's website. From there they follow the traditional form of entering their payment and shipping details within the virtual checkout. (Missed opportunity! They should have had the virtual avatar fumble with a self-checkout kiosk while an angry Walmart employee avatar stares them down. LOL)
Roblox also expanded access to its video ad inventory to all advertisers last week, following a six-month beta test. Advertisers can now purchase video ads through Roblox's self-serve tool, with plans to allow advertisers to purchase ads through PubMatic in the near future. Video ads in Roblox take the form of screens and billboards embedded within Roblox’s virtual worlds. The launch of video ads is part of Roblox’s aim to get brands to view it as a full advertising platform rather than a testing ground for their innovation budgets.
Amazon reported its first-quarter earnings last week and it turns out the company is doing really well. CEO Andy Jassy and CFO Brian Olsavsky informed investors of several company milestones on its recent earnings call such as tripling its profit from $3.2B to $10.4B in the same period YoY. Net sales at its online store rose 7% to $54.7B and at physical stores rose 6.3% to $5.2B. Ad sales overall rose 24% to $11.8B.
Walmart is planning to close all 51 of its health centers across five states, changing course from its originally stated plan of expanding to 75 locations this year. The company also plans to end its telehealth services, citing operational costs and reimbursement complexities that made its healthcare business unsustainable. All centers stopped accepting new patients last week, however, Walmart said it would continue to care for existing patients during the transition, as well as help its healthcare associates transition to other roles as it winds down the business. The company plans on keeping open its 3,000 vision centers and 4,600 pharmacies, which will continue to offer health screenings and testing.
Amazon, Starbucks, and McDonald's executives say US consumers are becoming more prudent with their spending — now looking for deals, seeking lower priced items, and being more particular about where they spend their money. Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan said, “We continue to feel the impact of a more cautious consumer, particularly with our more occasional customer,” noting that it had affected traffic and sales across the industry. “Many customers are being more exacting about where and how they choose to spend their money, particularly with stimulus savings mostly spent.” (Mostly spent? LOL. How long does he think that $1200 lasted?) Or maybe the true story is that consumers have ALWAYS been prudent with their spending, and these corporations simply took their price increases too far so people went elsewhere? Maybe the country is NOT headed into a recession and we're all just sick of your price gouging?
Travis Hess is joining BigCommerce as the company's new president, charged with leading its global strategic and operational expansion. Hess has spent more than 15 years in senior leadership positions at e-commerce companies, most recently as managing director of Accenture, and he's also served on partner advisory boards for Shopify, Klaviyo, SAP/Hybrid, and Rackspace.
Social media overtook paid search as the world's largest advertising channel, with Western platforms growing the fastest driven by Chinese brands targeting US and European audiences. Social media ads are forecasted to reach $247.3B this year, up 14.3% from a year ago, with TikTok estimated to earn $23.1B of that.
16% of U.S. parents surveyed said their Gen Alpha children have an online-shopping addiction, with 22% saying their kids prefer online shopping to other forms of entertainment including watching TV. Almost half said their kids buy themselves clothes online, and 32% said their kids are interested in beauty products. Sounds to me like 16% of U.S. parents could use a lesson on parenting.
TikTok said in its latest safety report that it blocked 37M attempted product listings and 2M seller registrations from July to December 2023. The company said it also remove 133k individual products after they were listed on the site and deactivated the accounts of more than one million sellers because of policy violations.
Wix launched a new feature called Wix Proposals that helps users create attractive proposals to convert leads into new clients, collect digital signatures, and manage setting up payments. The feature is powered by the Prospero business proposal platform, which is now integrated directly with Wix’s business management tools.
The Canada Revenue Agency wants to obtain large troves of Shopify merchant information including bank account info, total transaction value, birth dates, and social insurance numbers in order to check if they've paid all their taxes. Shopify has been fighting the “outrageous” request for over a year now, also arguing that it doesn't keep much of the requested information on hand, which the CRA doesn't believe.
Sam's Club is turning to AI to speed up the process of exiting its stores, allowing customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app to walk out of the store through large scanners instead of having their purchases double-checked manually by employees. Since unveiling the technology this past January, Sam's Club deployed the scanners at over 120 stores in the US, with plans to expand to all its stores by the end of the year.
Kajabi, the platform for content creators to sell online courses, launched a no-code mobile app offering that lets users host their own customized native app through the App Store and Google Play. The platform previously offered a mobile app for hosting online courses, but this new product allows creators to control the user experience, send push notifications, add custom links to the menus, offer in-app purchases, and more.
Federal prosecutors are investigating the internal practices at Block, with suspicions that its subsidiary Square processed thousands of transactions involving countries subject to economic sanctions as well as multiple crypto transactions for terrorist groups. Most of the transactions discussed with prosecutors were not reported to the government as required, and Block did not correct the company processes when it was alerted to the issues.
Speaking of Block, the company announced its strategy of regularly purchasing Bitcoin for its corporate balance sheet using a dollar cost averaging strategy. The company plans to allocate 10% of its monthly gross profit from Bitcoin products towards investments in the cryptocurrency itself.
The Save Mart Companies which operates Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx grocery stores, is deploying Instacart Caper Carts, which use computer vision and AI to automatically identify items as they are placed in the cart, at select Save Mart and Lucky stores in the coming months, followed by a broader rollout later this year. The company is also implementing the Instacart FoodStorm order management system, which enables Caper Cart customers to place orders for made-to-order items like fried chicken or custom cakes and pies directly on the cart screen while they shop and receive a notification once it's ready.
ToysRUs.co.uk is seeking a partner for its e-commerce site, which launched in 2022. The company confirmed to suppliers that it is “transitioning to a non-transactional website” as it seeks a new e-commerce partner, but that the website will “continue to promote the Toys R Us brand including our much-loved mascot Geoffrey, while also fully supporting the opening of TOys R Us stores at WHSmith throughout the UK.” Really Toys R Us — an e-commerce partner? Haven't you been down that road before and been majorly burned?
Carvana, the online used car retailer, told investors on an earnings call that it became the most profitable public automotive retailer in the US for the first time after setting new all-time company record this past quarter. The record performance impacted its inventory, with the average time from posting a vehicle on its website to a customer purchasing it decreasing to 13 days in March.
Sam Ash Music, the 100-year-old family operated music instruments retailer, is closing all 42 of its remaining stores nationwide. The company noted on its website that the “unfortunate news also presents a fantastic opportunity for great deals” and marked down all of its products with sale prices that are still higher than what you can buy the same products for on Amazon right now.
Rue21 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its third time in the past twenty years and began the process of closing all 540 of its stores. The company has assets worth up to $500M and liabilities of almost an equal amount, according to its submitted documents. Sounds like a great acquisition target for Overstock! LOL.
A professor from Columbia University asked US courts to affirm the legality of Unfollow Everything 2.0, a browser extension that makes it easier to stop following friends, groups, and pages on Facebook. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the browser extension does not violate Meta's TOS, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or California's Computer Data access and Fraud Act, also arguing that through Section 230, US lawmakers sought “to promote the development of filtering tools that enable users to curate their online experiences and avoid content they would rather not see.” The developer of the original Unfollow Everything was banned from Facebook in 2021 and never released version 2.0 because Meta threatened to sue him if he did.
Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Babylist have pulled weighted infant sleepwear like swaddles, blankets, and sleep-sacks from their shelves amid ongoing concerns over the safety of the products and after receiving a letter from the Consumer Product Safety Commission asking major retailers to remove them from stores. Studies haven’t been able to irrefutably demonstrate the risks of weighted infant sleepwear, however, experts are adamant that weighted products are not safe for infants and claim that the proposed benefit does not outweigh the danger — which is pretty much the same argument lawmakers are using to force the sale of TikTok.
Remember that couple from Utah who accidentally shipped their cat to Amazon in a return package? Well, the cat and her family have since been reunited. After she was discovered, an Amazon employee took the cat to a vet where her microchip was scanned. The couple was contacted and promptly flew to California the next day, rented a car, and drove back home with the cat.
Plus 10 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including T-Mobile completing its $1.35B acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the parent company of Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. The deal was first announced last March, and the FTC finally approved the deal over a year later. Ryan Reynolds will continue to serve as Mint’s ambassador, and the company will continue to offer its $15/month 5GB data plan.
I hope you found this recap helpful. See you next week!
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Hi ecommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of the week's top stories, which I cover in depth with sources in the full edition. Let's dive in...
Amazon is delaying its controversial new low inventory fee for the second time as it looks to satiate the hundreds of thousands of sellers it outraged with the original announcement. The company announced via its seller forum that it would be extending the grace period through May 14th. In addition to the delay, Amazon made some general changes to the upcoming fee structure such as the fee will not apply to products that have sold fewer than 20 units in the last week, any fees incurred due to excessive inbounding and processing times caused by Amazon will be refunded, and Amazon will provide an exception to the fee on products that are part of Prime-exclusive sales for the four weeks following Prime Day.
Shein has been courting brands like Colgate-Palmolive, Hasbro, Suntory Beverage & Food, and Bella Aurora in an attempt to sell more household names on its platform. The company, which is known for selling its own cheap clothing and accessories, is moving into other categories like beauty and household items to better compete with Amazon on its turf. So far Shein has given brands and retailers access to its platform in nine European countries, United States, Brazil and Mexico. Shein says that the inspiration for adding new categories is that customers were already searching for those types of products and brands across its platform.
Kohl's is re-entering the same-day delivery business — this time leveraging the Instacart app and its network of drivers. The company says that Instacart enables 109M US households to obtain delivery in as fast as an hour from 1,172 Kohl's stores across the U.S. Customers ordering Kohl's deliveries on Instacart can still earn their Kohl's Rewards loyalty points, as well as place orders for either same-day or scheduled delivery, with the same prices as in-store. Product categories eligible for same-day delivery include accessories, home goods, beauty & skincare items, and pet supplies.
As part of its mission to enhance its e-commerce business, Nordstrom introduced a new digital marketplace on its website, initially showcasing a selection of products from Mulberry, Adore Me, Cynthia Rowley, and DXL. This move catches Nordstrom up to retailers like Macy's, Walmart, and Michaels, which have all created third-party marketplaces in recent years. As opposed to casting a wide net, Nordstrom is being very particular about which sellers to allow on its marketplace, carefully selecting brand partners “to ensure that our marketplace experience drives the relevance and inspiration that Nordstrom customers expect from us.”
Walmart is now able to sell physical goods directly to users inside Roblox for the first time. The introduction of real-life e-commerce of tangible items is a milestone for Roblox, which aims to become an all-encompassing destination for virtual life. Virtual users are greeted with a new storefront that showcases virtual copies of physical items sold at real-life Walmart stores. The customer can try out the virtual item on their avatar. Customers can then load a virtual browser window inside Roblox that imitates the experience of shopping on Walmart's website. From there they follow the traditional form of entering their payment and shipping details within the virtual checkout. (Missed opportunity! They should have had the virtual avatar fumble with a self-checkout kiosk while an angry Walmart employee avatar stares them down. LOL)
Roblox also expanded access to its video ad inventory to all advertisers last week, following a six-month beta test. Advertisers can now purchase video ads through Roblox's self-serve tool, with plans to allow advertisers to purchase ads through PubMatic in the near future. Video ads in Roblox take the form of screens and billboards embedded within Roblox’s virtual worlds. The launch of video ads is part of Roblox’s aim to get brands to view it as a full advertising platform rather than a testing ground for their innovation budgets.
Amazon reported its first-quarter earnings last week and it turns out the company is doing really well. CEO Andy Jassy and CFO Brian Olsavsky informed investors of several company milestones on its recent earnings call such as tripling its profit from $3.2B to $10.4B in the same period YoY. Net sales at its online store rose 7% to $54.7B and at physical stores rose 6.3% to $5.2B. Ad sales overall rose 24% to $11.8B.
Walmart is planning to close all 51 of its health centers across five states, changing course from its originally stated plan of expanding to 75 locations this year. The company also plans to end its telehealth services, citing operational costs and reimbursement complexities that made its healthcare business unsustainable. All centers stopped accepting new patients last week, however, Walmart said it would continue to care for existing patients during the transition, as well as help its healthcare associates transition to other roles as it winds down the business. The company plans on keeping open its 3,000 vision centers and 4,600 pharmacies, which will continue to offer health screenings and testing.
Amazon, Starbucks, and McDonald's executives say US consumers are becoming more prudent with their spending — now looking for deals, seeking lower priced items, and being more particular about where they spend their money. Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan said, “We continue to feel the impact of a more cautious consumer, particularly with our more occasional customer,” noting that it had affected traffic and sales across the industry. “Many customers are being more exacting about where and how they choose to spend their money, particularly with stimulus savings mostly spent.” (Mostly spent? LOL. How long does he think that $1200 lasted?) Or maybe the true story is that consumers have ALWAYS been prudent with their spending, and these corporations simply took their price increases too far so people went elsewhere? Maybe the country is NOT headed into a recession and we're all just sick of your price gouging?
Travis Hess is joining BigCommerce as the company's new president, charged with leading its global strategic and operational expansion. Hess has spent more than 15 years in senior leadership positions at e-commerce companies, most recently as managing director of Accenture, and he's also served on partner advisory boards for Shopify, Klaviyo, SAP/Hybrid, and Rackspace.
Social media overtook paid search as the world's largest advertising channel, with Western platforms growing the fastest driven by Chinese brands targeting US and European audiences. Social media ads are forecasted to reach $247.3B this year, up 14.3% from a year ago, with TikTok estimated to earn $23.1B of that.
16% of U.S. parents surveyed said their Gen Alpha children have an online-shopping addiction, with 22% saying their kids prefer online shopping to other forms of entertainment including watching TV. Almost half said their kids buy themselves clothes online, and 32% said their kids are interested in beauty products. Sounds to me like 16% of U.S. parents could use a lesson on parenting.
TikTok said in its latest safety report that it blocked 37M attempted product listings and 2M seller registrations from July to December 2023. The company said it also remove 133k individual products after they were listed on the site and deactivated the accounts of more than one million sellers because of policy violations.
Wix launched a new feature called Wix Proposals that helps users create attractive proposals to convert leads into new clients, collect digital signatures, and manage setting up payments. The feature is powered by the Prospero business proposal platform, which is now integrated directly with Wix’s business management tools.
The Canada Revenue Agency wants to obtain large troves of Shopify merchant information including bank account info, total transaction value, birth dates, and social insurance numbers in order to check if they've paid all their taxes. Shopify has been fighting the “outrageous” request for over a year now, also arguing that it doesn't keep much of the requested information on hand, which the CRA doesn't believe.
Sam's Club is turning to AI to speed up the process of exiting its stores, allowing customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app to walk out of the store through large scanners instead of having their purchases double-checked manually by employees. Since unveiling the technology this past January, Sam's Club deployed the scanners at over 120 stores in the US, with plans to expand to all its stores by the end of the year.
Kajabi, the platform for content creators to sell online courses, launched a no-code mobile app offering that lets users host their own customized native app through the App Store and Google Play. The platform previously offered a mobile app for hosting online courses, but this new product allows creators to control the user experience, send push notifications, add custom links to the menus, offer in-app purchases, and more.
Federal prosecutors are investigating the internal practices at Block, with suspicions that its subsidiary Square processed thousands of transactions involving countries subject to economic sanctions as well as multiple crypto transactions for terrorist groups. Most of the transactions discussed with prosecutors were not reported to the government as required, and Block did not correct the company processes when it was alerted to the issues.
Speaking of Block, the company announced its strategy of regularly purchasing Bitcoin for its corporate balance sheet using a dollar cost averaging strategy. The company plans to allocate 10% of its monthly gross profit from Bitcoin products towards investments in the cryptocurrency itself.
The Save Mart Companies which operates Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx grocery stores, is deploying Instacart Caper Carts, which use computer vision and AI to automatically identify items as they are placed in the cart, at select Save Mart and Lucky stores in the coming months, followed by a broader rollout later this year. The company is also implementing the Instacart FoodStorm order management system, which enables Caper Cart customers to place orders for made-to-order items like fried chicken or custom cakes and pies directly on the cart screen while they shop and receive a notification once it's ready.
ToysRUs.co.uk is seeking a partner for its e-commerce site, which launched in 2022. The company confirmed to suppliers that it is “transitioning to a non-transactional website” as it seeks a new e-commerce partner, but that the website will “continue to promote the Toys R Us brand including our much-loved mascot Geoffrey, while also fully supporting the opening of TOys R Us stores at WHSmith throughout the UK.” Really Toys R Us — an e-commerce partner? Haven't you been down that road before and been majorly burned?
Carvana, the online used car retailer, told investors on an earnings call that it became the most profitable public automotive retailer in the US for the first time after setting new all-time company record this past quarter. The record performance impacted its inventory, with the average time from posting a vehicle on its website to a customer purchasing it decreasing to 13 days in March.
Sam Ash Music, the 100-year-old family operated music instruments retailer, is closing all 42 of its remaining stores nationwide. The company noted on its website that the “unfortunate news also presents a fantastic opportunity for great deals” and marked down all of its products with sale prices that are still higher than what you can buy the same products for on Amazon right now.
Rue21 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its third time in the past twenty years and began the process of closing all 540 of its stores. The company has assets worth up to $500M and liabilities of almost an equal amount, according to its submitted documents. Sounds like a great acquisition target for Overstock! LOL.
A professor from Columbia University asked US courts to affirm the legality of Unfollow Everything 2.0, a browser extension that makes it easier to stop following friends, groups, and pages on Facebook. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the browser extension does not violate Meta's TOS, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or California's Computer Data access and Fraud Act, also arguing that through Section 230, US lawmakers sought “to promote the development of filtering tools that enable users to curate their online experiences and avoid content they would rather not see.” The developer of the original Unfollow Everything was banned from Facebook in 2021 and never released version 2.0 because Meta threatened to sue him if he did.
Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Babylist have pulled weighted infant sleepwear like swaddles, blankets, and sleep-sacks from their shelves amid ongoing concerns over the safety of the products and after receiving a letter from the Consumer Product Safety Commission asking major retailers to remove them from stores. Studies haven’t been able to irrefutably demonstrate the risks of weighted infant sleepwear, however, experts are adamant that weighted products are not safe for infants and claim that the proposed benefit does not outweigh the danger — which is pretty much the same argument lawmakers are using to force the sale of TikTok.
Remember that couple from Utah who accidentally shipped their cat to Amazon in a return package? Well, the cat and her family have since been reunited. After she was discovered, an Amazon employee took the cat to a vet where her microchip was scanned. The couple was contacted and promptly flew to California the next day, rented a car, and drove back home with the cat.
Plus 10 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including T-Mobile completing its $1.35B acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the parent company of Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. The deal was first announced last March, and the FTC finally approved the deal over a year later. Ryan Reynolds will continue to serve as Mint’s ambassador, and the company will continue to offer its $15/month 5GB data plan.
I hope you found this recap helpful. See you next week!
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https://www.skrine.com/insights/alerts/march-2022/the-trade-descriptions-prohibition-of-use-of-state
But it only protects the big fish. No, KK Mart, Starbucks, McD are not the big fish. Even the Sugar King Robert Kuok is not the big fish because we still can have products labelled "sugar-free."
Also, for the first time in my life I've heard that if you don't support palm oil, then are you not Malaysian.
What... So now I have to live my life without Bumi privileges and I also have to drink palm oil straight from the bottle like Teresa Kok to prove I'm Malaysian?
And boy... People in this country love restrictions on freedom of speech.
If you question why we need this law, you will hit a wall of people arguing that palm oil is good, don't listen to Western propaganda.
That's not even the point. I never believed the Western propaganda about palm oil, but can't we discuss this law?
5 years prison or RM250,000 fine yo.
If you try to boycott palm oil, the law treats you as if you drove your car recklessly and killed a dozen kids. Heck you pay a smaller fine if you did kill a dozen kids.
Pretty bizarre that we think of ourselves as an oil producing country, but Stop Oil is not the thing that gets you into trouble, it's No Palm Oil.
There's so much coercion in this country.
"We are not forcing you to consume palm oil, we are just making it harder for you to not consume it."
"Kami akan susahkan hidup anti-palm oil."
And then there's the argument that if you don't want to consume palm oil, you can just check the ingredient list. Really? All palm oil derivatives are listed as "palm" in the ingredient list?
This whole thing reminds me of the Christmas greeting on cakes issue. Can sell but cannot display?
People hated that ban, right? Even though the authorities later tried to explain that there is no ban even though their rule said cannot display. Pretty confusing, huh?
But people are ok with this anti-boycott law?

I am not the OOP. The OOP is u/OkPrestigiousGuest posting in AITA_WIBTA_PUBLIC
Ongoing as per OOP
1 update - Medium
Original - 25th April 2024
Update - 29th April 2024
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AITA for wanting to leave my husband after he stole from me?
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When I was 5 my Nana gave me her tea set. It was given to her by her mother. My Nana had no daughters of her own and I was the only girl of her 11 grandchildren so she gave it to me. It's a full bone china set. I don't know if it has monetary value, but it's sentimental value is immeasurable. I have had it, kept it, used it for nearly 28 years. I wanted to pass it down to my own daughter or granddaughter one day. My husband knows all this.
His sister and her family came to stay with us for a week. Whenever I have little girls over I pull out my tea set for a tea party. I make tea sandwiches, scones, cakes, biscuits. My Nana made tea parties a big deal with me and I carry that on. So me, my sister in law and her daughter had an afternoon tea party.
It was a couple of weeks after that I had my friend and her daughters coming to visit. I planned a tea party. Morning of I baked, made sanwiches, went to pull my tea set out, and it was gone. I keep it in a cabinet in my kitchen. I wash it and put it away every time until the next time. I went a little mad looking for it. The visit came and went.
I spent days tearing my house apart looking for it. Every cabinet, drawer, cupboard, the whole house was turned inside out. My husband even helped me. He was insistent that it couldn't have grown feet and walked away on it's own. That's what gets to me. He knew damn well where it was but he pretended that I had misplaced it. He knew how upset I was and tried to comfort me with promises to buy me a new set. As though a new set could replace my Nana's.
A few weeks later he came home with a cheap, thin looking set that he bought at Wallmart or something. I threw it in the bin. Call me ungrateful if you want, I don't care. I was ungrateful. Something you treasure, something of great sentimental value given to you by your long dead Nana cannot be replaced no matter how much, or little in this case, the replacement cost.
Then I heard my husband on the phone. I heard him say that when we visit, to put it away and tell Melly not to mention it because I'm still upset about it. He didn't say the words tea set but I knew, I KNEW that's what he was talking about. I walked in while he was still on the phone and called him a thief. He was like a deer in headlights. He quickly hung up and tried to explain. I wouldn't hear it. I told him to get it back.
His sister called me and I called her a thief. I told her to return it in the same condition she took it or I would be calling the police then I hung up on her. My husband tried reasoning with me. He told me his niece loved it so much and that kind of thing really is for little girls. He said he was going to talk to me about leaving it to her anyway so where is the harm that she has it now. He said I was too old to be playing around with kids toys and I really should grow up. He said I was immature and it means nothing. What he meant is that it means nothing to him so I should forget it.
The next day I not only went to the police to report the theft, I also called my brother who lives in the same city as my husband's sister. My brother went around and got my tea set. My husband was livid and spent a couple of days calling me a lot of derogatory names. His tune changed when he came home to find me packing my stuff. He stole from me, pretended he didn't know anything about it, insulted me, tried to gaslight me. Now he's saying how sorry he is, and that we can work this out. I don't think we can. I look at him and see someone who steals from me, lies to me, makes me feel small, someone untrustworthy who doesn't care about me.
Two of my brothers will be here tomorrow to help me move. I'm taking everything that means anything to me because I don't think I'll see any of it again if I leave it all with him. We can fight it out in court about the rest.
I've been told that I'm an asshole to leave him over a tea set. But it's not just a tea set. It's my Nana's history, it's my history. It's years of happy memories with her, with my mother and other female relatives, friends. He stole all that from me when he gave it away.
AITA for calling it quits?
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Comments
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No_Stage_6158
NTA, glad you got it back and that you know it’s time to go. Good Luck.
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NeartAgusOnoir
You’re right, good thing she knew it was time to go.
OP: he lied about this, what else has he lied about? Definitely take everything that means even a small amount to you, and let the courts decide what you can keep. Also, do NOT drop the charges….let his family learn that stealing has consequences. I’d be petty and get the tin set from wal mart out of the trash, and send it to his sister with a return address with his name.
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Scorp128
Not only did he lie about it, he pretended to actively look for it while knowing full well how upset OP was over the tea set missing. And then even told his sister to hide it from view when they come over. He was wrong every step of the way. That is a different level of diabolical.
He knew what he did was wrong. He lied and tried to cover his actions. He does not get to decide what OP does with her things. This was a sentimental much loved and used regularly treasured family heirloom. He has zero rights to it and some gall trying to tell OP how she should feel about it and that she is "too old" for it. Not for him to decide.
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**Judgement - NTA*\*
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Update - 4 days later
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Update - just a tiny one because it's only been four days but my inbox is collapsing under all the message requests for an update.
I am moved out. Two of my brothers and two of my cousins helped me to move. I took videos (pre during and post my leaving). There was some unpleasantness prior to them arriving but their arrival saw its end. They came with a moving truck. A whole truck. All I had packed was some luggage with my clothes and a few boxes of other stuff. But they filled that truck, and I have the soon to be ex on video helping them, laughing with them. But when I gave him my house keys, he was not looking at me with any love or regret.
The plan was to move back in with my parents. All my brothers, my two cousins that helped me move, and another cousin had a meeting of the minds on facetime the night before coming to help me. My brother who retrieved my tea set opened his big mouth about the tea set situation and they've become suspicions of just about everything. Due to those suspicions they decided my plan was rubbish and came up with one of their own. I was moved into the third cousin's home. He has top notch security. Cameras, sensors, monitoring, you name it he probably has it.
My brothers have not let up about their suspicions. Suspicions are all they have and I'm going to see it stays that way. I am not going to tell them anything. I love my brothers and I love my cousins, I do not want to spend the rest of my life visiting them in jail.
I've taken some of the advice people offered. Id est the videos. Making a missing items list, I'll be looking for photo evidence of these items. I have already spoken to my uncle's wife the divorce lawyer. I was going to go with someone else because she's family, but she's bound by lawyer-client privilege. I have not blocked him so all the voicemail and SMS and FB Messenger messages he's sending are getting through and being saved.
I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out but that will have to do for now. I am moved out, I am safe. Thank you everyone. I'll let you know when I have more to tell.
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Comments
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aliciameendes
Im glad you leave, and hopefully in your divorce you can get your stuff back or the money from the things your husband stole from you. Honestly your ex husband soubds like a jerk.
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EnoughPersonality210
Well done for being so organised and getting out of there. I am so pleased you have strong family support. Keep your chin up, and best wishes for a happier future.
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DirtyPenPalDoug
Went and read first post... yea fuck this prick..use that police report in court. Take every fucking you own, and then own everything he does through court, fuck that shit.
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I am not the OOP. Please do not harass the OOP.

Un amigo de apellido "Ruano".
Su abuelito era o es dueño de la Perfumería Mariposa... muy famosa por en la pared tener un mural pintado una mariposa grande...
Perfumerías antiguas del centro...
Le digo... "Oye mi ex novia quiere eso que le llaman Keratina Brasileña para ponerse unas extensiones"
La tal "Barbara-La-Puta"
Ah si... me regalo un paquete...
"Ya viste atrás la cabeza del actor de Gattaca..."
Que "Ratzinger y tu papa tenían el cabello atrás igual..."
Que mi mamá iba a un salón de una mujer llamada "Normita" que también tiene una distribuidora en la calle "España".
"Cortamelo en capas..." le decía hace algunos años...
Todo un circo de la situación...
"Aso puta madre a quien le importa tanto... el tema de esa película..." ni a mi...
Parte del circo ese jodido.... ya escuche le bautizaron como "People of Wal-Mart..." que pena me dio...
Yo no quiero opinar nada de algo que ni me interesa...
Es un mundillo miniatura con abusos genitales se hacen "unos monstruos..."
A nadie le interesa lo que esta grabado. Lo mas complicado es... demorar para tener hijos... por nadie por nada...
Gentes que salen en videos matando menores de edad... que hueva... pinche gentuza...
Como no contratan una puta grúa... es una mamada increíble.