Turns out, Lenox Dinnerware is not lead-free!

Lenox is one of the largest dinnerware companies that makes bowls, glasses, and silverware.

Lenox products are technically considered safe by the FDA as their lead contents are under the required maximums, but their products are definitely not lead-free.

Lots of wedding registries have Kate Spade plates, glasses, bowls, and even forks, knives, and spoons on them.

What people don’t realize is that many Kate Spade items like Plates, Bowls, and silverware contain lead, as they are made by Lenox.

While they are under the FDA recommended quantities of lead, they still contain lead nonetheless.

Sprinkles is one of the fastest growing cupcake chains with dozens of locations, and even a Sprinkles cupcake ATM!

Here’s a full list of vegetarian Sprinkles cupcakes, including my favorite of peanut butter chocolate cupcakes.

If you’re looking for vegan specifically, there is even a Vegan Red Velvet cupcake at Sprinkles

I was walking by Auntie Anne’s and wondered which items are vegetarian or vegan.

Turns out most of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels and vegetarian, and the dips are too.

If you’re wondering what is not vegetarian or vegan, stay away from the latte products, butter dipped pretzels and the meat items like pepperoni pretzels.

Google Express is an interesting marketplace where you sell your products on Google. The conversion rates and CTRs are significantly better, especially on Mobile, and it’s very compelling to sell there.

The feeds are not so simple though, because the Google Express feeds require multiple steps with a product feed, local inventory product feed, and order and tracking feeds sent via the Google Content Shopping APIs.

The latter Google Express feed API involve Acknowledging the Order, Submitting tracking, and updating shipping through the APIs.

If you can get on Google Express, it’s well worth the effort as you can now be found on a great channel through web and mobile apps.

Google Manufacturer Center is a channel much like Google Shopping, but lets you have finer control over your product attributes.

The Google Manufacturer Center feed specifications are simpler than those for Google Shopping, but allow you to have preference on attributes like title, description, and image links when there are other merchants selling your products.

Jet is a marketplace owned by Walmart, but run separately from them. It’s a great place for price comparison and for bulk buying.

Selling on Jet is done through listing products APIs rather than through feeds, and by adhering to the Jet Feed Specifications.

It’s a great marketplace to try selling assuming you can get your products to conform to the Jet feed specs.

The new FireFox 57 has been announced, and I just got the latest copy and while it feels significantly faster, I decided to run the latest Browser Bench Benchmark against JavaScript performance.

The results are significantly worse than Chrome and Edge. This might just show how contrived the Jetstream benchmark actually is.

Rakuten marketing does affiliate, display, and search advertising.

Rakuten Marketing’s feed format isn’t too complex, but does have some import fields that should be properly optimized, like title, category, and description.

This is especially true for search feeds, as Rakuten Marketing functions as an agency by advertising on Google Shopping.

Slylight is a large fashion aggregator that appeals to high fashion buyers.

Their feed format is a little specific to fashion, and understandably too, because Stylight’s feed specification has specific fields for color, size, material, and pattern.