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Consumerist: Shophacks
gladeoust.jpgGlade Scented Oil Refills Cost $0.15 per ml. Oust refills cost $0.33 per ml. Here is how to get Glade scented oil refills into an Oust Portable Fan. Yay. —MEGHANN MARCO

breadcounter.jpgWant your bread to last longer?

Most grocery stores with a bakery section get their bread delivered frozen. Instead of taking the bread from the bin, ask the person behind the counter if you can have one of the frozen loaves!

A succession of freezing and thawing damages fruits and vegetables, so we can understand how the same might apply to bread.

Reader Zach does this at Stop & Shop in Mansfield, MA, and he says, "They seem fresher this way, and freeze better, as they are already frozen."

A good shophack, especially if you're just going to end up putting the bread in the freezer anyway. — BEN POPKEN

  • secretsite.jpgHave you ever found a deal at Best Buy's website only to travel to the store and find that the "sale" is over? Did the Best Buy employee show you "proof" on their "website"? It now seems that there are really TWO websites, and they're identical except for the prices. Here's the deal:

    • You walk into a Best Buy to purchase a sale item you saw on their site.

    • The employee tells you that the item is no longer on sale, and shows you what looks to be Best Buy's website, but it's really a secret intranet that Best Buy's corporate office denies exists. The price on the website shows that the sale is over.

    • You cry and leave, then at home you see that the sale isn't over at all. What happened?

    The Hartford Courant investigated this phenomenon throughly and are convinced the secret "intranet" exists. Their columnist actually saw it:Many employees I talked with said they had no idea there is an internal site. But two employees at two different stores confirmed to me that there is an intranet site available only to employees.

    One long-time employee showed me the intranet site Hammer and I had been led to believe was the bestbuy.com site.

    The salesman told me it was a site that only employees could access because it contained confidential information as well as item prices. Moral of the story? Bring a printout of BestBuy.com and also ask for the secret intranet price to be quoted to you. Sometimes it's more, but sometimes it's less.—MEGHANN MARCO

    refillit.jpgEveryone loves the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner, except of course, for the people who don't. The main reason not to love the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner is the fact that herald.jpgAmazon has a policy that if you buy something from them, and the price drops within 30 days, they will refund you the difference.

    The amazonlink.jpgProBargainHunter analyzed Amazon's URLs and found ways to easily find hidden clearance and deal items by department. For instance, 75% off ca