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Melody Heald is a culture writer. Her work can be found in Glitter Magazine, BUST Magazine, and more.

Melody Heald

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‘Count your days, Quaker Oats’: Woman notices something unusual about Quaker Oats single-serve oatmeal packet. It’s only 1-month old

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

Three panel design with panel one a close up of Bananas at a store, and panel two is a woman talking at the camera, and panel three is a Costco from the outside.

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‘That’s how to cheat the system’: Costco shopper reveals how to hack your membership to get rewards points in cash

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

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‘I stick now to just shopping on Amazon’: Woman goes shopping at Marshalls/HomeGoods. Then someone approaches her

Alexandra Samuels is a national political reporter and contributor to the Daily Dot, where she started as an intern covering politics in the summer of 2016. She enjoys all things Marvel, keeping up with the latest TikTok trends, long walks with her pup, and reading murder-mystery novels.

Alexandra Samuels

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‘I started losing money left and right’: Former Amazon seller defends changes to Amazon’s refund policy

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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Charlotte Colombo

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‘My Marshalls never stocked up like that’: Shopper discovers $39 Coach wallets at Marshalls. Are they authentic?

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

Rebekah Harding

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‘I feel bamboozled’: Shopper picks up purse at TJ Maxx. Then she finds something mysterious inside

Mustafa Gatollari has been an internet culture writer for over a decade. He has a passion for connecting what’s trending on social media to solid research—helping to separate clout-chasing claims from facts.

Mustafa Gatollari

Three panel design with one showing the Entertainment section of a retail store, the middle is of a large TV in the store, and the last panel is the outside of a Walmart.

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‘There’s a reason it’s so cheap’: Shopper finds huge 98-inch ROKU TV at Walmart for $1,498. Is that a good deal?

Ramon Ramirez was the managing editor and, formerly, the Dot&#8217;s news director, entertainment editor, and evening editor. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Grantland, Washington City Paper, Austin American-Statesman, and Austin Monitor.

Ramon Ramirez

A woman speaking to the camera next to a Dollar Tree location. There is text in the bottom right corner that says Main Character of the Week in a Daily Dot newsletter web_crawlr font.

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Main Character of the Week: The Dollar Tree customer who found a markup on Jiffy cornbread mix

Kiera Sargent is a self-declared chronically online adult, she enjoys weaving stories out of the content she consumes to reflect on greater social and cultural developments. When she’s not staring at a screen, she stares at the pages of a book, through a camera viewfinder, or at a paint-soaked canvas.

Kiera Sargent

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‘If my Dollar Tree people saw me do that I would be in jail’: Dollar Tree shopper finds Touchland hand sanitizer dupe—but it’s packed in a stock cart

Vladimir Supica is a Serbia-based freelance writer. He enjoys traveling through Europe, reading non-fiction books, and playing with his dog Max.

Vladimir Supica

3 panel image: on the two sides a man in a black New York Yankee's hat complains. In the center image we see the exterior of a Kohl's +Sephora department store.

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‘That’s their trick to get you there’: Shopper gets 20%-off coupon at Kohl’s. Then he reads the fine print

Stacy Fernández is a freelance writer, project manager and communications specialist. She’s worked at The Texas Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and run social for The Education Trust New York. Her favorite hobby is finding hidden gems at the thrift store, she loves a good audio book and is a chocolate enthusiast.

Stacy Fernandez

A woman is bordered by pizza slices with the text, "Costco Crack down = No pizza????" Overlaid on it.

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‘I’ve always gotten food here’: Woman goes to buy pizza slice at Costco food court. Then a worker intervenes

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‘These things are like $400’: Woman finds Le Creuset Dutch Oven in dumpster behind Pottery Barn. Workers thought they ‘damaged it out’

Three panel design with a Walmart Store entrance in panel one, a woman holding a device who appears to work at Walmart in the middle panel, and a person looking at a receipt in the final panel.

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‘It shows that your receipt is from the last 4 hours’: Walmart shopper gets stopped at the door. The worker has to scan receipts now

Walmart Employee(l) Walmart Store Front(c) Walmart Electronics Section(r)

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‘LEAVE ME ALONE’: Walmart worker blasts customers who ask for items in the electronics section

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

3 panel image. On the left is a woman with the text "count your days, TJ Maxx", in the middle is the exterior of a TJ Maxx store, on the right we see the same woman holding up a pot.

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