Latest news with #GrubHub
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Indiana Fever vs. Golden State Valkyries: How to watch Caitlin Clark's next game of the 2025 WNBA season
Amazon's will once again serve as one of the streaming homes for the WNBA this season. In 2025 Prime Video will stream most Thursday night WNBA games free to all Amazon Prime subscribers, plus the Championship Game of the WNBA Commissioner's Cup in July. On top of Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon Prime subscription includes free shipping, exclusive deals, Amazon Music, a year of free GrubHub+ and more. A standard Amazon Prime subscription is $15 monthly or $139 annually, but discounts are available for students and those on qualified government assistance. You can try Amazon Prime free for 30 days.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- Yahoo
How To Make a Food Budget — and Save Money Without Meal Prepping
Many tips surrounding saving money at home advise meal prepping to get more bang for your buck. But what if you don't like meal prepping or lack freezer space? Maybe your family refuses to eat leftovers or reheated food. Discover More: Find Out: Personal finance blogger Katie Gatti Tassin, author of Rich Girl Nation, called meal prepping 'depressing' on her blog. If you share those feelings, that's reason enough to find other ways to save money on groceries. Fortunately, you can stick to a realistic food budget and save money even without meal prepping. Before you set a realistic food budget, you have to figure out how much you're currently spending and what you're buying. The USDA publishes a monthly food plan report that highlights how much an 'average' family of four spends on food. For April 2025, food-at-home costs a frugal family of four a minimum of $993 per month. However, your grocery budget could cost thousands per month, depending on your family's size and the foods you enjoy. Tracking grocery spending for one month can help you spot trends, pinpoint 'non-negotiables' for your family, and see where you can reduce costs. 'It's one of the easiest areas to trim, candidly, because it's often far more out of control than we even realize,' Tassin wrote. See More: Tassin opted to aim for a cost of $2 per meal per person. She manages to stick to this goal by choosing pasta with sauce, scrambled eggs, salad, cheese, and comfort foods like quesadillas or grilled cheese. It probably helps that she doesn't cook much meat and is a petite female with lower caloric needs than many people, according to her blog. However, no matter how much you or your family eat, you can create meals that use similar ingredients for the week, so ingredients don't go to waste. Being able to accept some repetition in your meals can dramatically cut your food bills. It might be fun to try new recipes, but if you're aiming to stick to a thrifty grocery budget, avoid recipes with ingredients that are unusual, expensive or hard to find. If you're looking for an exotic dinner, it might be more cost-effective to dine out than try to make the same thing at home with ingredients you'll only use once. If you aren't meal-prepping to have easy meals available to reheat, it can leave you opening the GrubHub app after a hard day at work. Instead, plan ahead for those nights you don't feel like cooking. Keep ready-to-eat meals available to heat up in a pinch. Tassin recommended frozen pizza or flatbreads from Trader Joe's. Costco's ready-to-eat selection of pre-made foods can also last a week in the refrigerator and can feed even a large family for at least two nights. Dining out is often a social experience, so leave room in your food budget once or twice a week to share a restaurant experience with friends, if that's important to you. But don't be afraid to get creative with get-togethers. An afternoon at the beach with bagels and fruit can be just as much fun, and more affordable, than a dinner at the latest hot spot. Your friends might even be relieved at the change of pace. More From GOBankingRates 10 Genius Things Warren Buffett Says To Do With Your Money This article originally appeared on How To Make a Food Budget — and Save Money Without Meal Prepping Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
2025 NASCAR Coca-Cola 600: How to watch today, full race schedule and more
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. NASCAR's longest race, the Coca-Cola 600, will be happening this Sunday, and the broadcast marks the first of five NASCAR Cup Series races to be streamed live on Prime Video, a first for the platform which recently entered into a seven-year deal with NASCAR. While several of this weekend's races out of the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina – including practices, qualifiers, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race – will air on FS1 and FS2, the main event will be a Prime Video exclusive. Prime Video will subsequently broadcast NASCAR's next four races, including Nashville (June 1), Michigan (June 8), Mexico City (June 15) and Pocono (June 22). Advertisement Here's everything you need to know about this weekend's schedule, including how to watch the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600, a rundown of the rest of this weekend's races, and more. How to watch the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600: Stream NASCAR on Amazon Prime Video Amazon Prime Video Prime Video is one of this year's destinations to watch a whole host of NASCAR races, including this weekend's Coca-Cola 600. On top of great sports streaming on Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon Prime subscription includes free shipping, exclusive deals, Amazon Music, a year of free GrubHub+ and more. A standard Amazon Prime subscription is $15 monthly or $139 annually, but discounts are available for students and those on qualified government assistance. You can try Amazon Prime free for 30 days. $14.99/month at Prime Video Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025 Time: 6 p.m. ET Location: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Charlotte, NC TV channel: Prelim races on FS1, FS2 and CW Streaming: Prime Video, Max, and more Several of this weekend's practices and qualifiers will air on FS1, FS2 and CW, but the main event, the Coca-Cola 600, will stream exclusively on Prime Video. An alternate drive-cam will also be available to stream live on Max. Where to stream the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 Races: FS1, FS2 and the CW are available on streaming platforms like DirecTV, Fubo and Sling. But you will need access to Amazon Prime Video to watch this weekend's Coca-Cola 600. A complete viewing schedule of every race out of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and how to watch them live is below. Watch select NASCAR races on the CW, FS1 and more Fubo TV Fubo TV gives you access to the CW, FS1 and 100+ more live channels. Starting at $85/month, the live TV streaming service is definitely a big investment for sports fans but it's one of the most comprehensive ways to catch events like NASCAR all year-round, and still leaves you with major savings compared to a traditional cable package. Fubo subscribers also get unlimited cloud DVR storage. Right now you can get $20 off your first month of any Fubo tier. And you can try all this free, too! Try free at Fubo NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 weekend schedule: Here's the schedule of races at the Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend. (All times Eastern.) Friday, May 23 3:35 p.m.: Truck Series Practice (FS2) 4:40 p.m.: Truck Series Qualifying (FS2) 6:00 p.m.: Menards General Tire 150 (FS1) 8:30 p.m.: North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (FS1) Saturday, May 24 11:05 a.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series Practice (CW App) 12:10 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying (CW App) 1:30 p.m.: NASCAR Cup Series Practice (Prime Video) 2:40 p.m.: NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying (Prime Video) 4:30 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series BetMGM 300 (CW) Sunday, May 25 5 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Coca-Cola 600 (Prime Video, Max) Other ways to watch NASCAR without cable:
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amazon Prime Video streaming service review: Come for the movies and TV shows, stay for the... free shipping?
Is there a weirder streaming service than Amazon Prime Video? No. No, there isn't. Because how do you even describe it? It's like Netflix, but also not like Netflix. It's a "free with your subscription" service, but also very much not free. It's woven into an interface that also incorporates movie and TV rentals and purchases, along with other streaming services you can subscribe to. Forget weird; Prime Video is kind of a mess. But it's also a pretty solid value, especially considering everything else that's bundled with it. Strap in, because this is going to get wild. Here's my Amazon Prime Video review. Related: The best streaming services for TV, movies, sports and more in 2025, tested and reviewed The best live-TV streaming services for 2025 Hulu review: The single best value in streaming services, especially if you bundle There are two ways to think about Prime Video. First, as something included with an Amazon Prime subscription, the one that nets you fast shipping, unlimited photo storage, discounted prescription drugs, GrubHub+ and so on. If you're already subscribing to Prime anyway for one or more of those things, Prime Video feels like a free extra. Second, you can think of it like Max or Netflix: A streaming service that's home to loads of classic and modern TV shows and movies, along with a generous helping of exclusive, original content (such as Reacher and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). It's priced in the same ballpark as those other streamers — but you also get all the aforementioned extras. In other words, Prime Video is either a free perk of your Amazon Prime subscription or vice-versa. However you choose to look at it, you'll pay $14.99 per month — or $139 for an annual subscription, which amortizes out to $11.58 per month. To put that in perspective, Netflix (which is just a streaming service, let's remember) charges $17.99 for its Standard plan — which, incidentally, limits you to 1080p streaming on two devices. Same deal with Max, except $16.99. A Prime subscription, on the other hand, includes 4K and allows up to three simultaneous streams. Now for the bad news: In 2024, Amazon started added commercial breaks to nearly all content — this despite a long history of ad-free streaming. (Enough users were furious about the change that they filed a lawsuit, but it was dismissed earlier this year.) If you want to reclaim that commercial-free viewing experience, it'll cost you an extra $3 per month. I'm as annoyed as anyone about this surcharge, but will grudgingly admit the numbers still work out favorably: $17.99 per month is less than the Netflix and Max Premium plans ($24.99 and $20.99, respectively) that include 4K and extra simultaneous streams. Of course, content is king; it doesn't matter if Prime costs less if it also delivers less. Let's see "what's on" at Amazon. As noted above, the Prime Video streaming library contains a wealth of movies, TV shows, documentaries and so on, mixing both modern and classic fare with a robust collection of Amazon originals. Want to rewatch all eight seasons of Monk? Settle in for Oscar winners like Oppenheimer and Poor Things? Indulge your Lord of the Rings fandom with original series The Rings of Power? Prime streams all of that and lots, lots more. (Do yourself a huge favor and put The Outlaws, another original, at the top of your watchlist.) While it's silly to say one streaming service or another has "the best content," I do think Amazon does a good job of curation: There's a lot of quality stuff here, with little of the D-grade "filler" you often see elsewhere. And if you like old movies, Prime's library includes more classics than you'll find on Netflix, Hulu or Paramount+. I'm a huge Charlie Chaplin fan; at this writing, Prime Video has City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times and more. (Interestingly, the oldest movie currently available on Netflix is 1973's The Sting.) The service now offers a mix of live sports as well, including soccer, Thursday Night Football and, starting later this year, around 60 NBA basketball games and the NBA playoffs. Speaking of live, Prime hosts a whopping 500-plus ad-supported live channels across 20 categories: movies, reality, food, family, comedy and so on. There are numerous local- and headline-news stations, dozens of Spanish-language channels and countless "thematic" ones: PBS Drama, Family Feud, SNL Vault, HBO Boxing, Modern Marvels, etc. It's reminiscent of Pluto TV, Philo Free Channels and so on — but Prime's channel count is significantly higher. Prime is also a video store: You can rent and/or buy movies and TV shows, most notably newer releases that aren't yet streaming on the likes of Netflix, Hulu or Max, but also plenty of older titles as well. (I recently rented the superb documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, which didn't have a free-streaming option elsewhere.) Of course, you don't need a Prime subscription in order to rent movies from Amazon. Finally, you can add a-la-carte subscriptions to many other streaming services — major ones like Apple TV+ and Max, smaller ones like BritBox and PBS Masterpiece — the idea being to bring more of your viewing options under the same roof. There's usually no price advantage — Apple TV+ costs $9.99 per month whether you get it from Apple proper or Prime Video — but Amazon does occasionally have deals on short-term subscriptions. During Prime Day or Cyber Monday, for example, you might be able to add PBS Masterpiece for just $1.99/month for the first two months. For anyone frustrated at having to constantly jump from one service to another and struggling to remember which content is where, adding these subscriptions to Prime could be useful. But there's a downside to all these integrations and extras, and it mostly has to do with how they're presented. Read on. In testing Prime Video, I spent most of my time in the Google TV and Roku versions of the service's app. I loved how easy it was to sign into my account using an onscreen QR code and my phone, and wish every other streaming service would adopt this method. On the flipside, I wish Prime Video would take interface cues from other streamers and collect all its menu options in one place. As it stands, you'll find Search, Main Menu, My Stuff and Settings on the left, and categorical viewing options — Movies, TV Shows, Sports, etc. — up top. Why the separation? Why not put everything on the left? (I don't like top menus because they disappear once you start scrolling down.) Prime Video's UI, while attractive overall, is illogical. It's also missing a few key staples, including support for voice-powered search (this is the company behind Alexa, after all) and filters you can apply to the movie and TV pages. If you want to see all of Prime Video's comedies, for example, you can't; you simply have to scroll down and try to find a Comedy row. And from there you can only scroll right to peruse the selection; there's no "view all" subsection. The bigger problem is the way Prime Video content — the stuff that's included as part of your subscription — is mixed together with content that costs extra: stuff you can rent, stuff you can buy, stuff available only with a subscription to another service. Indeed, it feels a bit like a bait-and-switch: You subscribe to Prime, open up the Prime Video app expecting something akin to Netflix, then see countless movies and TV shows that require more money. I will say Amazon has made much clearer what's "included with Prime" and what requires a purchase or subscription, but I can understand users' indignation over seeing nearly as much of the latter mixed in with the former. One other nitpick: If you already have, say, an Apple TV+ subscription through Apple, you can't access those shows via the Prime Video app. That's possible only if your subscription is paid for via Prime. But you'll still see Apple TV+ shows in the menus, which can be either confusing or infuriating. I should also note that if you own a Fire TV streaming device or a TV with the Fire TV operating system built in, be prepared for even more confusion, because that interface reflects yet another mixture of Amazon Prime content and that of other streaming services — Netflix, Hulu, Max, etc. — along with their apps. But, wait, there's more: Within that Amazon-created (but very different) Fire TV interface lies a Prime Video app, same as the one found on Google TV and Roku. This is the Möbius strip of streaming; it makes my head hurt. Thankfully, the actual nuts and bolts of the Prime Video interface are solid, with a large, detailed preview of any item you select and a familiar, easy-to-navigate playback menu once you start it. I was especially impressed by the numerous closed-captioning options: You can choose from four styles and five sizes for the onscreen text. I've also long appreciated Prime Video's X-Ray feature, which is great for answering those inevitable Where do I know that actor from? questions. Available in most (but not all) movies and TV shows and accessible just by pressing pause, X-Ray provides names, photos and brief bios of the actors in a particular scene or the entire production. I'm not saying you can't live with Prime Video the way it is now, just that it's unnecessarily complicated in certain respects. Anyone who struggles with TV technology is likely to encounter some aggravation here. And there's one other issue that bugs me nearly as much. I noticed something curious while browsing the Prime Video catalog: Nearly every movie and TV series showed at least a 4-star rating (out of 5). That includes such notorious flops as John Carter (4.5 stars, according to Amazon) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (also 4.5 stars). I found only a handful of entries with 3.5 stars, and zero with any fewer than that. So, what's going on here? How is it that an Adam Sandler bomb like Little Nicky scores 5 stars? (And for that matter, why does Apple's smash-hit Severance show up with only 4 stars? Why is Oscar-winner Anora among the few with 3.5?) This is Amazon's verbatim explanation for how ratings are calculated: "We don't use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness." Um, what? Many, if not most, people make quick judgments about entertainment based on the number of stars listed below the title. And it's generally accepted that a star rating absolutely is a "simple average" based on either critics' or audience scores. But recency? And whether or not it was purchased? I'm scratching my head over why those factors would be part of the calculation. I'm also flummoxed by "analyzing reviews to verify trustworthiness." Amazon has long been criticized for allowing fake reviews to influence product ratings; I question exactly how the company is evaluating video reviews and what impact that analysis has on the final score. (And are "untrustworthy" movie/TV reviews even a problem? Did Adam Sandler-loving hackers conspire to make Little Nicky a 5-star film?) Bottom line: It find it misleading — if not outright deceptive — that almost every movie and TV show in the Prime library has 4, 4.5 or 5 stars. For what it's worth, if you click through to the "info" section for a title, you'll usually see an IMDb score as well — frequently a much lower one. That score is a "weighted average of all user votes," which is exactly what you'd expect. (To make it even weirder, Amazon owns IMDb.) I've reached out to Amazon for clarification on all this and will update the review if and when I get a response. Like the company behind it, Prime Video is not without its problems. Navigating the interface requires more clicks and scrolling than I'd prefer, and the surfeit of additional content that's not included in a subscription leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I'm also still irritated that Prime Video used to be commercial-free but no longer is — unless you pay extra. That said, If I'm judging the service solely on the merits of its content and value, I'm obliged to give it high marks. There's an abundance of good stuff to watch here, plus the convenience of quick and easy access to rentals and purchases. Even if you pony up the extra $3 for ad-free viewing, it's still cheaper than comparable plans from Netflix and Max. Plus, you get all the amenities afforded to you by an Amazon Prime subscription.
Axios
10-03-2025
- Automotive
- Axios
One-third of Boston's DoorDash deliveries by two-wheelers
One-third of DoorDash deliveries are made on two wheels in Boston, the company says in a new report. Why it matters: Food-delivering motorcycles and scooters seem to be everywhere these days, but Boston's two-wheeled DoorDash delivery rate is actually lower compared to other major cities. Driving the news: The share of deliveries made on two-wheeled devices across the U.S. and Canada markets has tripled on the DoorDash platform since 2022, per the report. Yes, but: DoorDash's data is based on a four-week period covering August-September 2024, and bikes' share of overall deliveries may drop in wintertime in some cities. By the numbers: 32% of Boston DoorDash deliveries are done on bikes, e-bikes, scooters and other two-wheeled rides. That share is 76% in San Francisco, 58% in New York and 57% in Washington, D.C. In Boston, two-wheeled "Dashers" traveled nearly 334,679 miles in the span of a month. The other side: Houston (3.9%), Atlanta (7.9%) and Dallas (9.5%) had the lowest two-wheel DoorDash delivery shares among the top 50 North American cities. The big picture: Bikes, e-bikes, etc. are usually more eco-friendly and less dangerous than cars and trucks, but Boston officials have raised concerns about two-wheeled delivery drivers flouting local traffic laws and causing accidents. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu introduced an ordinance last month to make food delivery platforms, like DoorDash and GrubHub, get a permit from the city transportation department to do business in the city. The ordinance also would require companies to offer liability insurance and share data on their food deliveries within Boston. Rideshare company representatives told city councilors during a hearing last month that the ordinance was too stringent and that making companies get umbrella liability insurance for their workers exceeds the state's requirements.
