Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending food and beverage news for Food & Wine for 7 years. After Amazon announced it was acquiring Whole Foods one year ago this month, at least some sort of integration between the two brands appeared inevitable - though the extent and pace of that melding of iconic names was unknown. But outside of maintaining their separate identities, the resulting merger has been pretty significant - from Amazon delivery of Whole Foods groceries to Whole Food selling Amazon Deals products like the Echo and Kindle. And starting this week, one of the biggest crossovers will be complete: Amazon has announced that as of June 27, Prime members will be able to get discounts at Whole Foods and Whole Foods 365 locations nationwide. This Prime member promotion has been about six weeks in the making. Whole Foods discounts for Prime members were first introduced in Florida back in May and by the end of the month, 12 more states had been added. And just two weeks ago, Amazon announced ten more states would be included in the program, bringing the total to 21. Now, the remaining 29 states don't have to feel like they're missing out: On Wednesday, Whole Foods Prime discounts will have spread to the remaining northern and Deals eastern parts of the country. The most basic component of the Whole Foods Prime discount is that members get an additional 10 percent off items with yellow sales signs, which the brands bill as "hundreds of sale items throughout the store" (alcohol excluded). But there are also some special Prime member deals.
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Everyone from Indiana Jones to Luke Skywalker agrees - if you really like their movies, you should pay to watch them. But these days, the web makes paying optional. Sure, the Internet helps studios share their works globally with a few mouse clicks. Yet it also enables digital pirates to spread copyrighted content all over the place, and none of that revenue is pocketed by the creators. Illegitimate movie-sharing frequently happens in two ways. One, users download and Amazon Deals install software that connects them to so-called torrent files, which let you download online material by pulling data from multiple computers hosting the same content. Two, a black-market site hosting the movie streams it on demand, much like a YouTube video. In legal terms, streaming sites are a strange beast. If you're caught illegally streaming movie, you could face a fine of $750 or more, USA Today reported in 2019. It's considered a misdemeanor offence. What's more, the people who actually operate the streaming sites themselves sometimes wind up in hot water and charged with multiple serious crimes.
Illicit movie-streaming sites also present other dangers. They sometimes host malware, may attempt to steal personal information or will flood your screen with annoying ads. We'll show you how to spot sketchy movie sites. The Emphasis is on 'Free! Illegal file-sharers don't typically spend a lot of time designing their websites. Compared to a legitimate business site, theirs often suffer from a lot of rather basic and easy-to-spot errors. Keep your eyes open for clear giveaways like these. The pages are filled with grammatical and spelling mistakes. Graphics are missing, improperly placed or totally out of context with the rest of the material. Fonts are ugly, weird, superstitionism.com inconsistent or unreadable. Many illegal sites don't charge users anything at all for free movie streaming. That's because they don't make their money from their streaming service. Instead, they make their cash through ads. Many, many, many ads. Some sites don't make any attempt whatsoever to hide their blatant ad-based revenue scheme. They pile on pop-up and pop-under ads by the dozen, or spread huge, flashing banner graphics all over the page.
Each time a visitor clicks one of those ads, the site operator receives a bit of revenue. Sometimes you can instantly spot the thieves simply by browsing the movies they're offering. When it comes to ambitious pirating sites, this is one of the most obvious giveaways, for a couple of reasons. Pirate sites compete not only against law enforcement but against each other. In order to entice as many viewers as possible, they offer up the freshest blockbusters. So, if you see streaming titles that are still showing at your local matinee, you can bet that the site is more than a little shady. A few legit streaming sites, such as Netflix, will release a movie it has produced in the theaters at the same time as on its streaming platform, but in those cases, there wouldn't be a copyright infringement. You could call it the Case of the Missing Link.
It's the endless shell game that you play when you're trying to stream a show and you can't seem to find a link that actually plays the movie. For example, let's say you find a title you want to watch. You click the movie title or graphic. The site directs you to another page with another link. You click the movie title again. You're directed, again, to yet another page filled with more links to the same movie title, including options that lead to third-party pages or even supposed software that will let you play back the film. At best, you'll endlessly click links that don't seem to go anywhere, you'll inadvertently click advertisements for suspicious products or you'll wind up stuck in a loop of sites that point to each other in the hopes that you'll share personal information or generate revenue by clicking the aggravating ads. If you've never heard of a particular streaming site, do a bit of sleuthing. Th is art ic le has be en done with the help of G SA Content G enerator DEMO.