Shopping Guides and Buying Advice
Chocolate: Where to Buy Online and In Store, and What Cacao Percentage Really Tells You
Buying chocolate got harder in the past two years, and not because there is less of it. Cocoa hit record commodity prices,…
Chocolate Coins: Where to Buy Online and In Store
Chocolate coins are easy to buy online in any month and hard to find on a shelf in July. That gap matters…
Chocolate Covered Strawberries: Where to Buy Online and In Store
A box of chocolate covered strawberries is a fresh, refrigerated perishable, not a shelf-stable candy, and that one fact should decide where…
Dark Chocolate: Where to Buy Online and In Store
Dark chocolate is easy to find and surprisingly hard to buy well. Aisles are stacked with bars shouting percentages, and that number…
Chocolate Fountain: Where to Buy, Rent, and What to Check First
A chocolate fountain is the rare appliance people either run constantly or use exactly once. That split decides the whole purchase, and…
Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans: Where to Buy, What to Look For, and What to Avoid
Chocolate covered coffee beans are whole roasted beans wrapped in a candy shell and eaten by the handful instead of brewed. They…
Chocolate Covered Pretzels: Where to Buy, What to Look For, and Top Picks
Sweet and salty is a hard combination to ruin. Plenty of brands manage it anyway. Chocolate covered pretzels run from waxy grocery-aisle…
Ethanol Free Gas: Where to Buy It and When It Is Actually Worth It
Ethanol free gas is easy to want and surprisingly hard to find. It sells at a minority of stations in the United…
Comics: Where to Buy Online and In Store for Every Collector
Comics are easier to buy now than at any point in thirty years, and harder to buy well. The same story reaches…
Magazines: Where to Buy Print and Digital Titles, Plus What to Look For
Magazines are periodicals published on a fixed schedule around one focused subject, and buying them well is mostly a question of where,…
Cologne: Where to Buy, What to Look For, and How to Avoid Fakes
Cologne is one of the few products where the identical item costs $60 at one seller and $130 at another. Same formula,…
Dresses: Where to Buy Online and In Store for Every Occasion
Buying dresses online goes wrong for one reason: US women’s sizing is not standardized, so the number that works at one label…
Chickpea Pasta: Where to Buy Online and In Store
Chickpea pasta went from health-food curiosity to grocery staple in about a decade. Milled from garbanzo flour instead of wheat semolina, a…
Behr Paint: Where to Buy Online and In Store, What to Look For, and What to Avoid
Behr paint is sold almost exclusively through The Home Depot in the United States, which makes where to buy the easy question…
Dragon Fruit: Where to Buy, What to Look For, and What to Avoid
Late July is a good time to be reading this. The domestic crop from California and Florida, plus imports out of Latin…
