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Walmart announced today that they will now begin implementing a 100 percent money back guarantee on all fresh produce.

Walmart is one of the nation’s largest grocers and sellers of produce.  The Walmart site states that they are “standing behind this promise by rolling out a 100 percent money-back guarantee* and making changes across produce sourcing, training and operations.”

Jack Sinclair, executive vice president of the food business for Walmart U.S. states that Walmart is listening to their customers and that they are delivering on their promises to offer “great produce at the most affordable price.”

The retailer’s initiative includes:

• Delivering produce from farms to store shelves faster by purchasing fruits and vegetables directly from growers and leveraging Walmart’s produce experts, distribution centers and trucking systems;
• Executing independent weekly checks in its more than 3,400 Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets and Express Stores that sell produce; and,
• Launching Fresh Produce Schools and other expanded training programs to 70,000 associates.

“Walmart has always been focused on providing its customers with top-quality fruits and vegetables, including our Cuties brand,” said Berne H. Evans III, chairman of Sun Pacific, a Walmart produce supplier.

“As a direct result of how Walmart has stored and handled our product, both Cuties and our Ripe and Easy Kiwis have been tremendous sales success stories at Walmart.”

While this new guarantee brings a lot of promise, many may still be skeptical. Nedra Rhone of ajc.com voiced her opinion on the matter:

“I don’t know about your neighborhood Walmart, but unless they’ve seriously revamped the produce department at mine, they could end up losing money on this one.”

Many people have vented their frustrations about the produce that walmart makes available to it’s customers.

ABCLocal states that “The company has been struggling to keep its produce aisles fresh, and is addressing concerns about the bananas, lettuce and other produce it sells.”

Will the Walmart fresh produce money back guarantee policy be a big hit, or will it be a big waste of money for the company?

[Image via Shutterstock]

Walmart Now Offering Fresh Produce Guarantee To Shoppers is a post from: The Inquisitr

If you can't help but stare in awe whenever you get the chance to peek inside a professional kitchen at a restaurant, you'll be ecstatic to hear that KWC's Waterstation is actually designed for home use. Albeit a home with a very big kitchen and enough disposable income to afford a $15,000 sink, but it's nice to know such luxury exists for when you make it big.

A series of pie-shaped cutting boards and drainage pans can be arranged around the sink making food prep and cleanup super easy. And a gooseneck faucet lets you blast away food from dinnerware and nearly every last inch of stainless steel. For most of us a kitchen sink that's large enough to double as a kiddie-pool is a dream that will probably never come true. But for those who can afford it, please don't look down on us when we come to visit and beg to do the dishes.

[KWC via Fancy]

This junior middleweight bout in Florida provides a nice little entry for the Be Careful What You Wish For file.

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If any sport would be this entertaining, I’d be a huge fan!

Down A Whole Bottle Of Vodka And Swim Competition [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

I'm so thankful I never used a computer in the 1980s because it looks mind-scrunchingly frustrating. I would probably hate technology because of it. So thank you to all the patient geniuses who took the time to use things like DOS for the rest of us. Even if today's tools existed back then, it would still be so much worse with yesterday's limitations.

SquirrelMonkeyCom shows how woefully inept computing was in the 1980s by imagining how Wikipedia would have worked. It's not exactly as fun as the Wikipedia rabbit holes I find myself crawling through every other day. [SquirrelMonkeyCom via Laughing Squid]

We’ve come a long way from Zynga’s farm-planning heydays. Following last year’s closure of three Zynga studios and the subsequent discontinuation of eleven browser-based titles, Zynga continues to downsize. Maybe it’s about time to admit that taking “inspiration” from other games just isn’t that profitable after all. The official reason for the layoffs, says founder and CEO Mark Pincus, is so that Zynga can focus more on “mobile and multiplatform” gaming.

Pincus today broke the news via an email to his employees, purportedly replicated in full over on the Zynga blog.

“I think we all know this is necessary to move forward,” says Pincus. “The scale that served us so well in building and delivering the leading social gaming service on the Web is now making it hard to successfully lead across mobile and multiplatform, which is where social games are going to be played.”

Until today, Zynga had some 2,900 workers to its name. 520 employees have been given the boot, and in a report on All Things D, it seems the majority of those layoffs will come from the New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles offices, which are closing down. Somewhat confusingly, Pincus mentions that FarmVille and its recently-introduced County Fair feature have drawn in 39 million players monthly “despite only being available on the web,” but apparently that’s not profitable enough.

The post Zynga lays off 18% of its staff, “necessary to move forward,” says CEO appeared first on PC Gamer.

The Earth’s neighborhood in the Milky Way galaxy got an upgrade. On Monday afternoon, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory made this announcement: “Our Solar System’s Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale.”

Our solar system is located in a beautiful spiral galaxy similar to the much larger M101 galaxy that you can see in the top photograph. However, we don’t live in one of the major spiral arms. For years, astronomers have believed that we lived in an inconsequential spur between two very large arms.

This minor spur which includes our average sun and our smallish earth is called the Local Arm, and it just wasn’t considered a very impressive part of the Milky Way.

It might seem strange, but it’s easier to see what other galaxies look like from the outside. It’s hard to get a feel for the real structure of the immediate area of the Milky Way all around the Earth because we’re on the inside looking out.

Therefore, the National Science Foundation continued to study the problem with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) — a system of ten radio telescopes spanning over 5,000 miles that provide an extremely focused view of radio waves.

The result of the new study shows that the Local Arm has more to it than we thought. “Our new evidence suggests that the Local Arm should appear as a prominent feature of the Milky Way,” said Alberto Sanna, one of the astronomers who worked on the study.

While the Local Arm still isn’t one of the biggest arms of the Milky Way, it’s much more substantial than we previously understood. It could be a significant branch of one of the two major arms surrounding us.

The researchers provided before and after images to show off Earth’s new upgrade. You can definitely see more of a spiral arm development in the after picture.

No wonder all of the Space Brothers keep sending those pesky UFOs to Earth. We’ve got one of the better Milky Way neighborhoods.

[CREDIT: Robert Hurt, IPAC; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF.]

[top photo giant galaxy M101 courtesy NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana), and STScI via Hubblesite.org]

Earth’s Milky Way Galaxy Neighborhood Upgraded By Radio Telescope Discovery is a post from: The Inquisitr

Hey, it's a cool-looking Ouya game! This is Towerfall, a multiplayer fighting game inspired by the likes of Smash Bros. and Bushido Blade. It'll be out for Ouya on June 25.

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Social media profiles affects college admission, job searches, and careers

A 24-year-old high school teacher in Georgia, USA, lost her job after an anonymous e-mailer complained about a Facebook picture of her sipping wine and drinking beer while on vacation in Europe. An Arizona woman was fired after ranting on Facebook when she was passed over for a job promotion. An 18-year-old Buckingham Palace guard was fired after he called Kate Middleton a ‘stupid stuck up cow’ in a Facebook post. A star high school football recruit lost his scholarship to the University of Michigan because of vulgar tweets.

By now, you know that you should not reveal personal information to strangers or on your Facebook profiles, and that you should utilize the privacy settings on social networking sites.  You also need to be careful with what you are posting online because potential employers or college admission officers could be looking at your page.

A newly published report tells us that 1 in 10 people between ages 16 and 34 have been turned down for a new job because of photos or comments on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social networking sites. “The majority (two-thirds) are not concerned that their use of social media now, may harm their future career prospects and are not deterred from using it,” states ondevice research,  “They are also more likely to have altered their social media profile to look good to their friends, as opposed to prospective employers.”

If you can’t live without social networking, especially Facebook, during your job search, use it to your advantage.

• Give your profile a makeover. Prune old posts to highlight what’s great about you instead of what you ate for lunch in 2010. Either delete or restrict the view to images and albums that don’t show you in your best light. Get a handle on tagged photos by setting ‘Review Posts Friends Tag You in Before They Appear on Your Timeline.’
• Build a compelling professional profile. Show off your strengths and accomplishments. To keep it personal as well as professional, add interests, hobbies, volunteering, educational information, and professional pictures.
• Follow and engage with companies and career–related groups on LinkedIn and Twitter so you’ll know about company hires and other news.
• Add value to the company you are interested in by participating in conversations, answering questions, and sharing links. Make sure you use solid grammar and communication skills.

If your Facebook profile is beyond help, then consider deactivating it for a time. The deactivation option gives you the flexibility to leave and come back whenever you want. Select Account Settings>Click Security in the left-hand column>Click Deactivate your account.

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Science is awesome because it can prove things like how red meat makes people happy. And cure diseases. And discover new ways to look at life. And solve problems. We need science. But science sucks when they destroy your childhood and say things like Pluto's not a planet and that dinosaurs had freaking feathers. For those things, I don't care what's scientifically correct. I want to believe!

ADHD made this pretty good (and really, really vulgar) bit that yells and screams at science for teaching us one thing and then refuting what they just taught us. Yes, we all love science and we all should be smarter but sometimes there's a line that science should just not cross. Feathers on a dinosaur? That's the line. That's when every single science thing gets a big FU.

Watch out for the language in this video if you don't like creative ways in saying FU. Seriously, you'll be offended. [ADHD]

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