SeaWorld announced Wednesday that in the third quarter of 2014, income and attendance were significantly down compared this time last year. Hmm, I wonder why?

British department store Harvey Nichols has issued a warning to its customers about the dangers of doing exactly what they want you to do at their store: shop a lot.

RIP, PINK? Victoria's Secret's line marketed to a younger demographic than their VERY SEXY everything else that was once touted as the brand's saving grace might to be going the way of Juicy Couture, to become a distant memory in fashion's history of things that used to be cool.

Even before Abercrombie & Fitch CEO and douchenozzle Mike Jeffries started getting pummeled for his 2006 comments about sizing his clothes to fit "cool, good-looking" kids only, the company was on the decline domestically.

Not only was E.L. James' cult sadomasochistic masterwork Fifty Shades of Grey far and above the bestselling Random House title this year, it single-handedly helped keep Random House parent company Bertelsmann maintain overall group profit levels despite stagnant conditions in its TV, magazine, and music publishing…

Insert your own violent archery imagery here: Katniss Everdeen has now [...]ed Harry Potter, mostly because digital books are bolstering sales figures for The Hunger Games trilogy. Suzanne Collins' dystopian bloodsport YA novels have surpassed J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga as the best-selling books (in both print…

According to Uproxx, this Fifty Shades of Grey masturbating kiosk is located in a Sainsbury's, which is a chain of supermarkets in the U.K. that apparently specializes in dirty books and special vibrator batteries. Oh, and those shortbread cookies that are so maddeningly delicious. This display should remind everyone…

A new study concerns some interesting analysis when it comes to real estate agents, house prices, and the length of time a property is on the market, reports Marina Adshade for Big Think. In a paper titled "Broker beauty and boon: a study of physical attractiveness and its effect on real estate brokers' income and…

Christmas is over! Now that all the joy (and pain) of spending hours on end with one's family and consuming ungodly amounts of food is wearing off, it's time to go back to thinking about the true meaning of the holiday season: stuff!

Retailers have already pissed shoppers off by beginning their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving. Now, workers upset that their holidays will be interrupted by the call of the almighty dollar are making a stink.

In recent years, Black Friday "doorbuster" sales have gotten nuttier and nuttier. Doors open at 5 am— no! 4 am! Flat screen TV's only 10 cents if you punch at least 3 store employees in the face! Now, some retailers are attempting to attract shoppers by starting their sales on Thanksgiving Day, a move that's being met…

Thanks to coupon sites like Gilt Groupe, Lifebooker, Groupon and Living Social, beauty treatments are making women offers they can't refuse — and they're trying things they otherwise might have given a second thought.

The Telegraph reports that sales of single-serving cookware has increased by 140% in the past year. Some of the stuff they're buying "wouldn't look out of place in a doll's house," remarked one department store rep.

Or perhaps it understands all too well. This Indiana store isn't actually offering a discount here, but hopefully in your mad dash to stock up on fashion graphic tees you won't read the small print.

Just when the "curvy" debate with regards to female models is heating up, New York magazine reports that display mannequin manufacturer Rootstein has debuted a new item, the "Homme Nouveau." This "new man" has a 27-inch waist.

We may be witnessing the age in which glossy magazines lose their luster.

Apparently a discounted Marc Jacobs bag is enough to send women into a frenzy: a one-day sale at the designer's NYC store was a particularly horrible kind of madness. Says W, the door-buster was "a full-house frenzy of fashion girls, and some boys, who ferreted furiously through the piles of bags, heavy on bubblegum…

Over on Portƒolio's site today, Jeff Bercovici reports that many of the major women's magazines sales are down for the first half of the year. And not just by a little bit: We're talking double-digit numbers. The newsstand average of Glamour dropped 10%; Marie Claire fell 11%, Vogue and Teen Vogue both slumped 15% and…

It's not just you! The polls are in, and this Christmas was officially a disappointment. Sales were "bleak", the streets were violent, and in the U.K. a man stuffed his wife's dead body under the tree before killing himself. Uplifting! So here's a news tidbit to be thankful for: in Los Angeles, a "beefy" dude wearing…