The customer circled the server’s name on the bill and scrawled the words, “we don’t tip terrorist”
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The customer circled the server’s name on the bill and scrawled the words, “we don’t tip terrorist”
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Customer who wrote "we don’t tip terrorist" banned from Texas restaurant
The customer circled the server’s name on the bill and scrawled the words, “we don’t tip terrorist”
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Customer who wrote "we don’t tip terrorist" banned from Texas restaurant
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon is hoping customers don’t see any more dogs, after early problems on Prime Day meant people trying to shop got only images of the cute canines delivering an apologetic message. Amazon’s website ran into some early snags Monday on its much-hyped Prime Day, an embarrassment for the tech company on the shopping holiday it created. Shoppers clicking on many Prime Day links after the 3 p.m. ET launch in the U.S. got only images of dogs — some quite abashed-looking — with the words, “Uh-oh. Something went wrong on our end.” People took to social media to complain that they couldn’t order items. So Amazon Prime day is already glitching, but at least I get to look at dogs when I refresh it #AmazonPrimeDay #DogsForDays pic.twitter.com/6YmXOaZgcn — Tiffani Tezak (@TiffaniTezak) July 16, 2018 Amazon Prime Day…delivering cute pics of sad dogs to make us feel better about the site not working. pic.twitter.com/lbC6jPVy9V — Tiffany Page (@C21Page) July 16, 2018 okay listen this dog is cute and all but I WANT MY PRIME DAY DEALS CMON AMAZON WYD pic.twitter.com/VYheMAffJd — Christina Marie (@BeautyChickee) July 17, 2018 The ONLY reason Amazon Prime Day isn't royally pissing me off with the website crashing every other second is the fact that theres cute dogs on the screen… how can u be mad at a cute pupper pic.twitter.com/jHy723fmia — Jasmine Brooke (@Jasmine_Garcia8) July 17, 2018 Amazon Prime Day dog is sad. pic.twitter.com/kPuuCIe5Y3 — Jessica Webster (@A2Jess) July 16, 2018 So we’re 38 mins into 36 hours of prime day, and amazon has pretty much completely crashed. HOWEVER, everytime your page crashes, they put a dog on the screen, so all in all… I’m not mad — eva (@eva_wazz) July 16, 2018 Amazon is having troubles on prime day and it says “uh oh. Something went wrong on our end” with a cute picture of a dog. They think a dog will make the issues better, they aren’t wrong — hales995 (@hales995) July 16, 2018 By about 4:30 p.m., many Prime Day links were working, and Amazon said later Monday that it was working to resolve the glitches. In an email to The Associated Press, it said “many are shopping successfully” and that in the first hour of the 36-hour Prime Day in the U.S., customers ordered more items than in the same time frame last year. Still, the hiccups could mute sales and send shoppers elsewhere during one of Amazon’s busiest sales periods that’s also a key time for it to sign up new Prime members. Shoppers have lots of options, as many other chains have offered sales and promotions to try to capitalize on the Prime Day spending. Analyst Sucharita Mulpuru-Kodali at Forrester Research called the glitch a “huge deal.” “This is supposed to be one of their biggest days of the year,” she wrote in an email. “I am shocked this caught them off guard. But I guess the lesson is to not have a big unveil during the middle of the day when everyone comes to your site all at once.” Amazon, which recently announced that Prime membership would be getting more expensive, was hoping to lure in shoppers by focusing on new products and having Whole Foods be part of the process. It was also hoping parents would use the deals event to jump start back-to-school shopping. Jason Goldberg, senior vice president of commerce at Publicis.Sapient, noted that the problems could turn off shoppers for a while, particularly those who planned to sign up for Prime membership. “If you were planning to find Prime deals to lower the cost of back-to-school (purchases), you’re almost certainly going back to your traditional venue of choice,” he said. Goldberg noted that it’s easy for Amazon to extend deals on its own devices and brands, but trickier for it to extend deals for its third-party sellers because they signed up for different promotional slots. While Amazon doesn’t disclose sales figures for Prime Day, Deborah Weinswig, CEO of Coresight Research, had estimated that it will generate $3.4 billion in sales worldwide, up from an estimated $2.4 billion last year. Prime Day also lasts six hours longer than last year. In Europe, Amazon employees were using Prime Day to draw attention to their complaints against the company. Unions in Spain said most of the company’s 2,000 permanent staff there were on a three-day strike on Tuesday. Meanwhile, other retailers like Macy’s, Nordstrom, Best Buy, Walmart and Target have rolled out their own promotions, said Charlie O’Shea, lead retail analyst at Moody’s. “Brick-and-mortar retailers know that they have little choice but to continue offering their own deep discounts, which is evident in the proliferation of ‘Black Friday in July’ deals that are being launched earlier each year, as well as various ‘price match’ offers,” he said in a note earlier Monday. Amazon created Prime Day in 2015 to mark its 20th anniversary, and its success has inspired other e-commerce companies to invent shopping holidays. Online furniture seller Wayfair introduced Way Day in April, becoming its biggest revenue day ever. Prime Day also usually helps boost the number of Prime memberships. Amazon disclosed for the first time this year that it had more than 100 million paid Prime members worldwide. It’s hoping to keep Prime attractive for current and would-be subscribers after raising the U.S. annual membership fee by 20 percent to $119 and to $12.99 for the month-to-month option. “It has been one of the best vehicles” for signing up members, said Goldberg. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Papa John’s pizza founder, John Schnatter, is apologizing for his use of a racial slur. Schnatter says while his comments were taken out of context, he understands his words hurt people. He stepped down as chairman of Papa John’s board this week after Forbes magazine reported he used the slur during a media training exercise. Schnatter tells our Louisville affiliate WLKY, the company conducting the exercise tried to blackmail Papa John’s for $6 million.
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Papa John’s pizza founder, John Schnatter, is apologizing for his use of a racial slur. Schnatter says while his comments were taken out of context, he understands his words hurt people. He stepped down as chairman of Papa John’s board this week after Forbes magazine reported he used the slur during a media training exercise. Schnatter tells our Louisville affiliate WLKY, the company conducting the exercise tried to blackmail Papa John’s for $6 million.
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(CBS NEWS) — Walmart wants to listen to its workers and shoppers more. A lot more. America’s largest retailer has patented surveillance technology that could essentially spy on cashiers and customers by collecting audio data in stores. The proposal raises questions about how recordings of conversations would be used and whether the practice would even be legal in some Walmart stores. “This is a very bad idea,” Sam Lester, consumer privacy counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., told CBS News. “If they do decide to implement this technology, the first thing we would want and expect is to know which privacy expectations are in place.” Walmart’s patent filing says the “sound sensors” would focus on minute details of the shopping and checkout experience, such as the beeps of item scanners and the rustling of bags, and they could also pick up conversations of workers and customers. It’s unclear so far how that chatter could be used. “We’ve made it perfectly clear in the patent that all sounds will be picked up, including voice,” Walmart’s director of corporate communications Ragan Dickens told CBS News. “But we’ve also made clear the intent” of the technology, Dickens added. According to the patent filed Tuesday, the sensors would be “distributed through at least a portion of a shopping facility” and collect data that will create a “performance metric” for Walmart workers. For example, the sensors would pick up on how many items are scanned, how many bags are used, how long shoppers wait in line and how employees greet customers. “A need exists for ways to capture the sounds resulting from people in the shopping facility and determine performance of employees based on those sounds,” says the patent filing for the program, called “Listening to the Frontend.” The audio would help cut costs and improve the shopping experience, while also monitoring “if employees are performing their jobs efficiently and correctly,” according to the filing. (credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) Dickens said the audio would be reviewed mostly by computers and that the program will not be “analyzing the words” it picks up. The filing, however, mentions the possibility that a performance metric might be “based on the content of the conversation,” such as determining whether workers followed a “specific greeting” or “script.” The criteria for evaluating employee recordings is unclear, as are several major details about the proposal, such as how long the recordings would be kept on file and whether outside parties could access them. The system may also be illegal in some states that have two-party consent laws, which outlaw recording audio of people without their consent. Walmart operates in all 50 states and 12 states have versions of those laws. “Shoppers aren’t going to expect their conversations will be recorded,” Lester said, adding that such recordings would raise “a ton of concerns” about privacy. Dickens said there had not been discussions yet about how the sensors would work in different states, and added, “I can assure you if the concept became a reality, we would comply with state and local laws.” He said Walmart employees would be notified about the sensors before they are installed, if the company decides to move forward with implementing the system outlined in the patent. “We file patents frequently but that doesn’t mean the patents will actually be implemented,” the Arkansas-based company said in a statement. “We’re always thinking about new concepts and ways that will help us further enhance how we serve customers.” Details about the potential cost of the system were not available, and Walmart noted that this is only a concept for now. Some Walmart workers have previously pushed back on the company’s surveillance and efforts to regulate employee behavior. When union-backed employees rallied for higher wages and more consistent schedules, Walmart started monitoring employees and activists, contacted the FBI and hired an intelligence-gathering service from the defense company Lockheed Martin, Bloomberg Businessweek reported in 2015. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS Local) – A Florida man stopped by police says he wasn’t driving drunk, instead he was only drinking while stopped at traffic lights. Earle Gustavas Stevens of Vero Beach was stopped on June 27 after a woman called 911, claiming Stevens hit her bumper several times in a McDonald’s drive-thru lane. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Department, the 69-year-old Stevens smelled of alcohol, slurred his words, and had a bottle of Jim Beam in the passenger’s seat when he was stopped by officers. “I asked him if he was drinking in the vehicle and he stated ‘no,’” the arresting officer’s police report read. “When I asked him where he was drinking he stated, ‘stop signs.’ He further explained that he was not drinking while the car was moving and only when he stopped for stop signs and traffic signals,” the officer wrote. Stevens’ drinking-while-stopped strategy did not pay off as his blood-alcohol level was reportedly twice the legal limit . He was arrested and charged with drunk driving and driving without a license.
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Sean Lee, Dak Prescott and other Cowboys express their gratitude to their retiring team leader, in their words.
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A Kingston man who reportedly beat his five-year-old daughter with a broom and broke her arm because she could not spell the words “mother” and “father” was denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident’s Magistrate’s Court.
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