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It’s happened to all of us — we open our cabinets to grab food containers, seasonings, or cooking utensils, only for everything to come sliding out when you’re digging around looking for what you need. Cabinets provide a lot of storage space, but many people don’t utilize it to its full potential. The tiny upper shelves that wiggle around and barely hold anything are outdated, which is why we’ve found a way better storage solution that offers practical and easy storage space. 

The Homtell Expandable Cabinet Organizer offers customizable space for any cabinet. With a smooth rail system, you can easily pull organized shelves out to find what you need, then slide them back in again for seamless storage. For just $25 during a Walmart Flash deal, this is a great option for anyone who struggles to keep their cabinets organized in the kitchen, bathroom, or pantry. 

Homtell Expandable Cabinet Organizer, $25 (was $40) at Walmart

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Why do shoppers love it?

These pull-out organizers act as drawers that slide on smooth rails, allowing you to pull each drawer out to find what you need, instead of pulling all the items out individually until you find what you’re looking for. They measure 21 inches deep and offer an adjustable width that ranges from 13 inches to 20.8 inches wide, allowing them to work in a variety of cabinets. They can be set up in a flash, using either adhesive tape or screws, making them a long-lasting option for renters who need a temporary solution and for homeowners looking for something more permanent. 

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The three-rail system works to ensure a smooth and stable option that won’t buckle under heavier weight, while the carbon steel frame and thick boards help keep your items secure and in place. They’re scratch-resistant, resistant to high temperatures, and can easily be wiped off in case of spills or dust. They’re ideal for the kitchen, bathroom, or even standalone pantries, and can fit everything from canned food and seasonings to kitchen appliances to makeup brushes and hair dryers. 

Details to know

Size: These expandable cabinet drawers can go from 13 inches wide all the way to 20.8 inches wide to fit a variety of cabinets. 

How they work: These pull-out organizers act as drawers that slide on smooth rails, allowing you to pull each drawer out to find what you need.

Materials: The carbon steel and thick boards prevent wobbling, even while holding heavier pots and pans. 

One shopper said, “I love the fact it is adjustable width-wise, and I also like the choice to either stick the glides to your cabinet bottom or screw them down. My husband screwed them down, but had I been alone, I would have stuck them to the cabinet floor with the very tacky adhesive. It’s a great product.”“This was easy to assemble and is sturdy,” wrote another reviewer. “It’s perfect for my appliances. The microwave, air fryer, ice maker, coffee grinder, and blender all fit on this four-tier shelf.”

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The Homtell Expandable Cabinet Organizer offers easy storage that keeps your items in better shape and makes them easier to find. The two options for installation offer easy access no matter what type of home you live in, and at just $25, it’s super affordable. Get this deal for a limited time during Walmart’s Flash deal.

Increased business expenses, such as the rising costs of rent, labor, and food products, have become a huge financial burden for restaurant owners.

Village Inn, a popular breakfast chain, isn’t immune to any of those.

As restaurants pass the increased costs on to their customers with higher menu prices, consumers are becoming reluctant to spend money on dining out, which reduces potential business revenue.

“High-wage states/markets are amongst the hardest in the restaurant industry,” Michael J. Ingram, vice president and principal at National Franchise Sales, told TheStreet’s Kirk O’Neil in an email.

“Franchisees can only raise their menu prices so far to make up for higher expenses, but as they lose customers, it becomes an uphill battle to cover debt they already have in place along with overall higher expenses,” Ingram said.

Financial distress is forcing certain restaurant operators to file for bankruptcy to reorganize their businesses and restructure debt.

A St. Petersburg, Fla., franchisee has filed for bankruptcy protection on behalf of five Village Inn restaurant locations.Shutterstock

Village Inn Oldsmar files for bankruptcy

Iconic breakfast restaurant chain Village Inn‘s Oldsmar, Fla., franchisee filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, facing long-term financial setbacks as a result of the 2024 hurricanes that significantly affected the Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, Fla., area.

The economic losses caused by the hurricanes have been compounded by weaker restaurant sales and higher overhead costs, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

The restaurant remains open with no plans to close, according to an employee who answered the phone at the Oldsmar Village Inn on Sept. 22.

Franchisee files Chapter 11 for 5 locations

The franchisee group, operated by managing member Lloyd D. Lehan IV, has filed bankruptcy for five Village Inn locations in Florida since June 2026.

Franchisee Village Inn Oldsmar LLC filed its petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa on Sept. 18, 2026, listing about $50,000 to $100,000 in assets and $500,000 to $1 million in liabilities, according to PacerMonitor.

The Oldsmar Village Inn’s bankruptcy filing comes just a month after the chain’s Bay Pines Group LLC franchisee, which operates the Bay Pines Boulevard Village Inn location in Seminole, Fla., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Aug. 14. Lehan also owns the Bay Pines Group franchisee.

Bay Pines Group listed over $8 million in liabilities in its petition, according to the Tampa Business Journal.

Restaurants face declining revenue

The Oldsmar filing also came over three months after St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Village Inn franchisee and lead debtor VI Land O Lakes LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on behalf of three Florida locations, as the restaurant operator’s revenue has fallen significantly over the last two years.

The 68-year-old restaurant chain’s franchisee, which is affiliated with the Oldsmar and Bay Pines franchises, filed its petitions for Village Inn locations in Land O Lakes, Brandon, and Zephyrhills, Fla., in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida on June 10, according to BKAlerts.

VI Land O Lakes LLC listed over $85,000 in assets and over $234,000 in liabilities in its petitions. The debtor’s largest unsecured creditors included Florida Department of Revenue, owed $48,000; First Citizen Bank, owed $47,000; US Foods, owed $41,000; Sysco Food Service, owed $35,000, and the Internal Revenue Service, owed $29,000, court papers said.

The Land O Lakes, Brandon, and Zephyrhills locations faced declining revenues over the last two years, dropping from about $2.02 million in 2024 to $1.9 million in 2025 for a 5.94% decline. Revenue is on pace this year for another decline as the company reported over $658,000 earned through June 10, according to the petition.

A manager of the Land O Lakes Village Inn location told TheStreet in June that all of the bankrupt locations were operating as normal with no plans for closures.

Several Village Inn franchisee locations in the Tampa area have also filed for Chapter 11 protection to resolve financial issues related to hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported.

Bankrupt Village Inn locations:

Village Inn Land O Lakes

Village Inn Brandon

Village Inn Zephyrhills

Village Inn Bay Pines

Village Inn Oldsmar

Source: Village Inn

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Most people have sent a friend to pick up an order. The store rarely cares who walks in, as long as the bill clears.

Online retail just split over whether software gets the same courtesy. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) began blocking the Muse AI agent from Meta Platforms Inc. (META) on Sunday night, Sept. 20, 2026, according to Bloomberg.

A day later, Shopify Inc. (SHOP) said it would open every store on its platform to the same agent.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said Muse will pay through Shop Pay, the company’s one-tap checkout tool. He called it “an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse,” according to Seeking Alpha.

Muse launched on Sept. 8, 2026, to handle errands such as shopping and scheduling, according to the Associated Press. It quickly hit No. 1 among free apps, so every closed door matters.

Unlike traditional search, Muse functions as an autonomous agent that navigates digital storefronts, selects items, and completes transactions on users’ behalf without requiring them to visit the merchant’s site directly.

Investors preferred the open door. Shopify shares closed up 7.3% at $137.92 on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, according to TipRanks. They rose nearly 8% more the next day, Investopedia noted.

Amazon wants consent it did not always ask for

Amazon’s case rests on permission. A spokesperson said shopping agents should “operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate,” Axios reported. Meta had declined Amazon’s request to remove the bot, according to Bloomberg.

The consent argument has a history.

In January 2026, more than 180 sellers on Shopify and rival platforms said Amazon’s Buy for Me agent listed their goods without consent, CNBC noted.

Amazon told CNBC that businesses could opt out by email. That is the opposite of the ask-first rule it now wants from Meta.

More importantly, Amazon earned more than $68 billion from ads in 2025, according to GeekWire, and that business relies on shoppers scrolling past paid placements.

An agent that jumps straight to checkout skips those ads, a risk Fortune flagged.

Muse is not Amazon’s first target:

Shopping agents, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini from Alphabet, and Perplexity’s Comet, are also blocked from Amazon’s store, according to Seeking Alpha.

An appeals court ruled on Aug. 4, 2026, that under federal hacking law, Comet users, not Perplexity, accessed Amazon, Reuters confirmed. That lifted an injunction Amazon had won in March.

Shopify stock closed up 7.3% at $137.92 on Sept. 21, 2026, after partnering with Meta’s Muse AI agent, which Amazon had blocked the day before.Charles-McClintock Wilson / Getty Images

Shopify wants to own the checkout, not the storefront

Shopify’s logic runs the other way. It does not need shoppers on merchant websites if payments still run through its rails.

Shop Pay passed $400 billion in lifetime accelerated gross merchandise volume in June 2026, PYMNTS said, so many shoppers already have details saved.

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Some of the same merchants Amazon’s agent listed without asking now have a path to Muse through Shopify’s own integration.

Deutsche Bank called the deal “strategically important” because leading AI platforms keep building on Shopify’s infrastructure, according to Investopedia.

Shopify stock still trades well below its high

Wall Street is rewarding Shopify’s open-door stance because its financial engine relies on transaction volume rather than ad impressions. With second-quarter revenue up 34% and an 18% free cash flow margin, the company’s core software and payment tools are expanding without burning cash.

Shares had fallen about 21% in 2026 as investors feared AI would erode software companies, according to CNBC.

Bernstein started coverage at outperform with a $160 target, placing Shopify “at the center of tech’s Venn Diagram spanning eCommerce, software and payments,” CNBC reported.

Shares traded between $94.00 and $182.19 over the past 52 weeks. Even after this week’s rally, the stock is down nearly 10% for 2026 but more than 50% above its May low, according to Investopedia. The rebound is real, but incomplete.

Analysts tracked by TipRanks give the stock a Strong Buy consensus, with 28 Buy and four Hold ratings over the past three months. Still, neither company has disclosed financial terms. The rally is pricing a channel that has not yet produced revenue.

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The real contest is over who grants permission

For two decades, online retail rewarded whoever owned the page a shopper landed on. Amazon is betting its selection is too valuable for agents to skip.

Shopify is betting agents will route around any wall toward merchants who welcome them.

Amazon’s largest rivals are building for the open path. Walmart Inc. (WMT) and Target Corp. (TGT) helped Google and Shopify build the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard for agent checkout, according to Internet Retailing.

Muse turns that split into a consumer test. If users leave the agent to shop Amazon directly, the wall works. If they stay and buy elsewhere, Amazon’s store becomes a door fewer shoppers bother to knock on.

Either way, the next retail moat will be measured in permissions, not page views.

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As the integration of artificial intelligence across industries and into critical infrastructure raises much debate and long-term uncertainty, the technology is already being embraced at almost every stage of running a business.

In the hotel space, AI is used for everything from answering guest queries with less need for human workers to offering dynamic prices. Room rates are adjusted based on demand that the technology monitors in real time, which maximizes profits for the hotel but often leaves guests feeling cheated or unable to expect stable pricing.

At the annual Skift Global Forum in New York on Sept. 23, Hilton Worldwide Holdings CEO Christopher Nassetta classified the growing use of AI in hotels as an “almost unstoppable” force that will continue to sweep across the industry in the coming years.

“It’s not going to stop”: Hilton CEO on the use of AI

“AI is relevant in the sense that it’s not going to stop,” Nassetta said to an audience of travel industry professionals. “Humans want efficiency [and] humans want their life to be easy. With technology, some are early adopters but eventually everyone gets there.”

Nassetta went on to say that across Hilton properties, the goal is for technology to streamline certain steps at the early stages, when customers reach out about potential or existing bookings through the various online channels.

In March 2026, the brand launched a digital AI concierge to serve guests who ask questions about the properties and their amenities.

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“I ultimately want to give customers what they want the way they want it, right?” Nassetta continued further. “And so if customers ultimately want to book through these agents, I want to make it really easy for them to be able to do that and make sure that the experience is a really good experience [..] while never losing sight of our core business which is the fulfillment side. How they get to us, and how that experience is because it’s all digital, matters a lot.”

The global Hilton portfolio is behind more than 9,400 hotel properties around the world.Shutterstock

How else is Hilton (and other hotel chains) using AI on your hotel booking

Nassetta said that a “direct relationship” with guests will always be the crucial last step toward leaving them with positive memories about an individual hotel and ultimately earning their loyalty. But AI will increasingly be leveraged to spot trends, learn about the person making the booking, and provide a more customized experience.

A recent survey from hospitality platform Mews, cited by Hotel Dive, revealed that approximately 51% of the 500 hotels polled in different parts of the world used AI in their day-to-day operations, while 98% used it episodically for specific tasks, between December 2025 and March 2026.

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“[AI] is going to deliver the best loyalty outcomes, the best pricing outcomes and, we think, the best experience outcomes,” Nassetta said.

“Because we have a direct relation, we know so much more about a customer and we can utilize AI in a world like today in a way that allows for customization at a massive scale.”

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