Ikea is famous for the Swedish meatballs served at its stores’ cafeterias. Now, it’s turning those meatballs customers love into … scented candles.
Ikea is offering meatball-scented candles as a prize in a sweepstakes event for “Ikea Family” loyalty club members to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the free loyalty program. Ikea hopes that dangling the candles may entice additional customers to sign up for a loyalty card, which gives members rewards and other perks.
Ikea says 1,925 lucky winners will get to claim one of the Huvudroll meatball candles...
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DALLAS (AP)— A copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 that remained unopened sold at an auction for $1.56 million.
The 1996 game sold on Sunday, breaking Heritage Auction’s record for the selling price of a single video game, as reported by the AP.
The auction house said in a statement that Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game on the Nintendo 64 as well as the first to feature the Mario character in 3D.
This past Friday, an unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda sold for 870,000.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. /Florida Newswire/ — With hurricane season approaching, the Spodak Dental Group team once again partners with the Delray Beach Police Department to provide the disaster relief team a safe “home base” shelter in the event of a severe weather occurrence. This is the fifth year that the team has opened up the facility to local first responders, and is only one of five local businesses to do so.
“We consider it an honor to be able to open up our doors to first responders in the event of an emergency,” said Dr. Craig Spodak, general dentist at Spodak...
Instagram is launching new tools that allow users to filter abusive direct messages.
The filter looks for certain words, phrases and even emojis that indicate abusive content, the social media company said.
The list of abusive content is compiled by Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, which is used to filter through DM requests, but users are allowed to add their own words to it.
The new tool set was designed to also make it more difficult for previously blocked people to contact users again using a new account.
Instagram also won’t allow recidivism, which means if someone’s account...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Movie lovers rejoice! The Regal Cinema in Fort Myers will reopen Friday, April 23.
Mortal Kombat will headline the new movie releases along with The Unholy and Godzilla vs. Kong.
Other movie releases will follow in the coming weeks including Spiral, A Quiet Place Part II and F9.
Movie theater guests will be asked to follow the new health and safety measures that have been set by Regal Cinemas.
The new guidelines include mask wearing, social distancing and health screenings.
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Natural Light has been recognizable for its cheap beer, but the 44-year-old brand is branching out with new products.
The brewer, owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, has rapidly expanded its options in recent years with new flavors and spiked seltzers, reported CNN. Now, the company is releasing boozy popsicles and flavored vodkas.
“We want to be the preferred alcohol brand — not just for beer — for drinkers between 21 and 30 years old,” said Daniel Blake, vice president of US value brands at Anheuser-Busch.
In an interview with CNN Business, he said the brand is accomplishing that with...
BOCA RATON, Fla. /Florida Newswire/ — Dr. Laju Mathew, a board certified dermatologist with more than 10 years of experience, joins the prestigious team of board certified dermatologists, board certified facial plastic surgeon, physicians assistants and laser technicians at Siperstein Dermatology Group. Her goal as a skin care provider is to take the very best care of her patients and help them achieve their skin care goals.
“We are excited to have Dr. Mathew join our team and we look forward to her providing our patients with unparalleled skin care,” said Dr. Robyn Siperstein,...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. /Florida Newswire/ — HottingerSignals.com, LLC is proud to announce the release of its newest algorithm for producing weekly trading signals on 5 ETF’s: SPY, QQQ, GLD, IWM, XBI, and their parallel E-Mini futures.
The previous algorithms Hottinger Signals had been using were not providing a signal each week (due to market volatility caused by the covid virus). This new algorithm does produce a signal each week for each of these ETF’s.
Back-testing, which used data as far back as 2000, produced truly remarkable results:
* Winning percentages were above 70%,...
Apple has approved Parler’s return to the iOS app store following improvements the social media company made to better detect and moderate hate speech and incitement.
The decision clears the way for Parler, an app popular with conservatives, to be downloaded again on Apple devices.
In a letter sent to Congress by Apple, the company explained that since the app was removed from Apple’s platform in January for violations of its policies, Parler “has proposed updates to its app and the app’s content moderation practices.”
On April 14, Apple’s app review team...
Restaurants offer freebies fairly often, but this one is asking you to make a permanent commitment to reap the reward.
A California-based restaurant chain is offering free burgers for a year to anyone who gets a permanent tattoo — offered for free — bearing the restaurants name.
Farmer Boys has teamed up with The Honorable Society and Las Vegas’ Rockin’ Ink Tattoo for the promotion that is celebrating the chain’s 40th anniversary.
People who want to participate must fill out a form online by May 21 to schedule an appointment. They must be 18 years or older.
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