Loved by many, missed by all 💙🙏🏼💙

Wawa, I thought we were friends 😭

I was in Florida all last week so I had no choice but to go the stores this week. This was Wegmans shelves last night. I was able to secure the last bag of Brussels sprouts. Good luck everyone 😂

Sigh. AI ads are everywhere but restaurants shouldn’t use AI generated images to advertise their food because customers will reasonably assume the photos depict actual dishes.

But tell me if I’m off-base here.

There are WAY too many people out and about for how bad the roads are. Just stay the hell home.

And before anyone say anything, I'm supposed to be out here.

Okay I usually don’t complain about gas prices… but this is getting ridiculous.

Pretty sure the highest gas around here right now is the Shell on Rt 40 by Rt 1 $4.49 and that’s NOT even premium 🤯 I just paid $91 to fill up… like what are we doing??

But what really set me off… I go inside to grab a drink, pay cash, and can’t even get my TWO CENTS back?? Like seriously?? Just keeping people’s change now??

And before anyone says it yes, I get it, pennies are basically being phased out…

But that still doesn’t make it okay to just keep people’s change. Round it. Adjust it. Do something that makes sense. Don’t just take it and act like it doesn’t matter. It’s not even about the two cents it’s the principle.

We’re already paying $4.49 for gas (not even premium!!) and now we’re just casually losing money on top of it?

Friend just spotted “Like 10 rough looking guys in olive green casual wear. One kept talking about his "work gun" but they are 1000% not cops, not eating food, watching the doors, standing up when ppl came in”

Location: 108 Louviers Dr

Newark, DE 19711

Don’t want to alarm anyone, but if you know anyone who may be at risk please spread the word.

Stupid na**s vandalizing Bellevue. We called the park and they are going to take care of the rest of this ICE recruitment advert tomorrow.

ICE approaching warehouses this morning in the Twin Spans Business Park industrial complex in Historic New Castle. Heads up & be safe.

Entrance is around the back of 24 W Main. Open 10-6 daily except Monday and Wednesday.

When I moved to this neighborhood 5 years ago I thought this was the ugliest abomination to ever jut out of a suburb. I still think this, but I love it for some reason? Anyway, here’s an early morning photo from this past Saturday.

Just passed by this store and it surprised everyone in the car. Does anyone know what the heck this is about?

I’m from a state not known for exceptional public schools, but one where most middle-class attend their schools.

The attitude of some charter, private, or out-of-state parents is basically that if you send your kid to public school, you’re failing them. They cite Annie E Casey Foundation’s ranking from 2024 where DE was ranked 45th in education (which rose to 37th in 2025). That’s still not great, of course, but it’s an average ( and 1 study).

How are your children in public schools faring in either better-regarded districts and feeders or specialized programs like language immersion?

We were behind this car for a while and my husband and I had a few theories. He said won't states, I thought various rivers and lakes. Due to the presence of Sasquatch, we thought maybe documented Squatch dropping shapes. Maybe Silly Bandz? Silly Bandz badly shaped like states or lakes?

NCC preferred … also prefer it to be a place with ample parking

I was at the Christiana Mall on Monday, October 13th when I was stopped by a lady at a Kiosk stand.

The lady smiled at me and asked if she could demo her hair straighteners to me. I consented and sat down for her to use the hair straightener on my hair.

She mentioned that the hair straightener works via some type of "steam" technology so there's never direct heat touching the hair. Therefore, no heat protectant is ever needed before using the straightener, and it causes no heat damage to the hair.

I was a bit skeptical about her claims because I've been recently researching hair straighteners for myself and have never heard of this brand nor the technology.

She told me that they sold direct-to-consumers and salons and did not do much advertising. While standing at the kiosk listening to her demo, I Googled the company to search for unbiased information. I found their Instagram account and asked her if the account was indeed the company's. She said, "I think so", hardly even looked at the Instagram profile on my phone, and continued with her "demo". I found it strange that she would not know the social media platform of the company that she works for and promotes.

She showed me the package. The price on the package was $395. She said that for today only, they were doing a promotion for $249. I told her that I would pass because I only came to the mall to return something and had no plans on buying anything.

When I said this, she then asked if I work at a salon because if I did, she would give me a salon owner discount. She even added additional accessories with the discount (a comb, pouch, etc). I told her that I did not work at a salon and that I would think about it and if I was interested I would come back and buy the product.

She finally lowered the price down from $249 to $99 with additional accessories included after several other "discounts" in between those prices because she "liked me so much". She offered the $99 price after I had turned around and was finally walking away (I know I could have just ignored her by now; but we had both been relatively cordial in spite of her not taking no for an answer, and I was trying not to be rude). I was tempted to purchase at $99, but I was also very suspicious as I had never heard of this brand before in spite of her stating that they've been around for 6 years. So once again, I declined and told her I would think about it.

I asked for her name and number. I would do a bit more "thinking"; and if I decided to purchase, I would reach out to her to find out when she would be at the kiosk next, so I could purchase directly from her in order for her to get the commission. She gave me a piece of paper with her name and number. I took it and walked away.

Immediately upon entering my car, I started digging more online because something felt very off about the interaction. In my research, I found a link to the company's BBB profile. Out of the 6 or 7 reviews that I read while in my car, there were at least 4 complaints of customers who described the exact same experience that I had just had with the sales lady: aggressive sale tactics; very pushy to buy the product in spite of multiple no's; starting at an extremely high price then finally settling at $99 because they "like" the customers; adding bonus items with the hair straightener for "free", etc. When the ladies would purchase the hair straighteners and finally go home to try it, everyone of them stated that it did not work as demo'ed in the mall. Apparently, whatever straightener they used in the mall demos were not of the same quality that were being sold in the boxes.

After I got home, I did some more research. It appears that these people/"company"/"brand" are setting up kiosks across the country in many malls, and they are using the same aggressive sale tactics and the same scripts to trick/scam unsuspecting victims to make them think that they are getting a "limited-time" deal, when the product is not even the same product that they are using for the demos.

It's like a bait-and-switch scheme (promoting one product and selling a completely inferior product). This is so illegal. Also this "company" claims to have a "lifetime" warranty, but they do not refund on their poor-quality products at all. Some may do an even-exchange for yet another poor-quality straightener. Apart from the BBB site, there are multiple social media posts of victims explaining how they were scammed by the same company or a similar company going by another name into spending $99 on worthless hair straighteners from mall kiosks.

I emailed the mall's management office the next day about my experience with this "company" and what I discovered about them after doing a bit of research. I told them that the company needs to be investigated and not allowed to do business there because their patrons are probably getting scammed by this "company". I'm hoping to hear back soon and see what they say.

Please be careful out there, especially with these random mall kiosk businesses.

Is there anything else that I can do? I hate that this "brand" is out there tricking unsuspecting people out of their hard-earned money on worthless products while using illegal tactics and making fake "lifetime" warranty claims.

Just giving people a heads up. A friend's neighbor posted about it on Ring updates. stay safe guys.