Grocery stores are changing dramatically. 

While much has been discussed about how tablets and other technology will be implemented in stores, the core merchandising strategy is also shifting. 

As consumers distance themselves from the supercenter model, stores are becoming more intimate, with emphasis on prepared foods and local merchandise. 

Traditional grocery stores will begin to disappear in the future, Christopher Studach, creative director at King Retail Solutions, told Business Insider. 

"There will be the cost-focused stores and the lifestyle-focused stores," Studach told us. "What this means is very few conventional (or 'middle of the road') grocery operators left."

King Retail Solutions recently designed a cutting edge example of a lifestyle store, Fresh St. Farms in Canada. 

The store is on the forefront of modern merchandising. 

Here's the exterior of the store. Note it is much smaller than the average Supercenter. Consumers are seeking more personal, intimate experiences, according to King.

The grocery store has a high-end coffee shop that uses local and sustainable products. Offering a personal experience is key because grocery stores are competing with online retailers like Amazon.

The store has a grill with freshly-prepared foods. More grocers are offering high-quality prepared foods to make their store a destination in the digital age.

From "win-win" situations to departmental "synergy," overused business jargon permeates the workplace — and Gena Larson is calling us out on it.

On her Tumblr, Use Sparingly, Larson, a graduate student of branding at SVA, offers her own definitions of business-speak that is often meaningless.

She describes jargon as "a business dialect spoken by many and understood by few," and uses the blog to poke fun at widely used phrases with ambiguous definitions, such as defining "holistic" as "the correct way to describe a project you don't fully understand." 

Here are five of Larson's top offenders, that perhaps we should start to use sparingly:  

Summer in London is short, so when the warm weather hits, Londoners take advantage of the clear days and warm weather by spending time outdoors. 

From the coolest roof gardens to the hippest outdoor markets, here are 27 great activities everyone in London should do this summer.

Did we miss one of your favorite things to do in London in the summer? Add it in the comments!

Dip your toes in the sand at one of London's pop-up beaches, like Camden Beach.

Find out more about Camden Beach here >

Channel your inner foodie at Taste of London in Regent Park. Sample food and drinks from over 40 of London's trendiest restaurants or watch the chefs at work as they prepare dishes for tastings. The event takes place from June 18th to 22nd.

Book your tickets here >

Smell the flowers at the Columbia Road Flower Market, which takes place every Sunday. After, peruse the charming galleries and shops on the same street.

Every four years the World Cup takes over the world for a month and produces incredible moments and photos.

Brazil has been a beautiful background for amazing sports photography.

From soaring header goals to games in the pouring rain to fans cheering, here are the most mesmerizing photos from the World Cup so far.

Russian goalie Igor Akinfeev drops a ball into the net allowing a goal for South Korea.

Neymar speeds past Mexico players.

Mexico's Memo Ochoa makes an incredible diving save.

A big Hollywood blockbuster often requires a lot of cash.

While it doesn't always take a big production budget to make a break-out hit, the most successful movies are often the costliest.

We turned to IMDB and Box Office Mojo to gather the 30 priciest films ever made, and consulted the consumer price index to adjust for inflation.  

We've also included the original reported and estimated budgets for comparison. A few franchises make the list twice.

While none of this year's movies are among the most expensive, many of the most successful films ever made cost more than $200 million.

29. [TIE]: "The Lone Ranger": $218 million

Original estimated budget: $215 million
Worldwide gross: $260.5 million
Worldwide adjusted gross: $264.2 million

*(All budget estimates have been adjusted for inflation.)

29. [TIE] "Oz the Great and Powerful" (2013): $218 million

Original estimated budget: $215 million
Worldwide gross: $493.3 million
Worldwide adjusted gross: $500.3 million

(All budget estimates have been adjusted for inflation.)

28. "Troy" (2004): $218.9 million

Original estimated budget: $175 million
Worldwide gross: $497.4 million
Worldwide adjusted gross: $622 million

(All budget estimates have been adjusted for inflation.)

For years, young professionals and families turned up their noses at Bay Ridge, a working-class area of southwestern Brooklyn, because of how far it is from Manhattan.

But as real estate prices in trendier Brooklyn neighborhoods continue to climb, more and more city slickers are taking a second glance at the "original Gold Coast," as locals call the area. With its phenomenal public schools, copious outdoor spaces, restaurant row, and affordable housing, Bay Ridge has a lot to offer.

The influx of young people has also changed Bay Ridge. Trendy, pricey restaurants have popped up on the main drag, a new crowd stays out later, and rents have significantly increased. Suddenly, Bay Ridge's lifelong residents fear being priced out of their homes.

The last shred of Old Brooklyn — the grimy, comfortable, working-class borough where a cup of coffee cost a buck — is giving way to "Girls"-era, hipster New Brooklyn. Let's see what all the fuss is about.

Welcome to Bay Ridge, one of the last shreds of "Old Brooklyn" still in existence.

It's located on the southwestern curve of Brooklyn, about a 45-minute commute to Lower Manhattan.

For a time, the only people who knew of Bay Ridge were crusty, old-school Brooklynites and those familiar with "Saturday Night Fever." The film's protagonist, played by John Travolta, captured the middle-class, family-oriented values of Bay Ridge in the 1970s.

We like to think we're rational human beings. 

In fact, we are prone to hundreds of proven biases that cause us to think and act irrationally, and even thinking we're rational despite evidence of irrationality in others is known as blind spot bias.

The study of how often human beings do irrational things was enough for psychologists Daniel Kahneman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and it opened the rapidly expanding field of behavioral economics. Similar insights are also reshaping everything from marketing to criminology.

Hoping to clue you — and ourselves — into the biases that frame our decisions, we've collected a long list of the most notable ones.

Affect heuristic

The way you feel filters the way you interpret the world. 

Take, for instance, if the words rake, take, and cake flew across a computer screen blinked on a computer screen for 1/30 of a second. 

Which would you recognize? 

If you're hungry, research suggests that all you see is cake.

Anchoring bias

People are overreliant on the first piece of information they hear. 

In a salary negotiation, for instance, whoever makes the first offer establishes a range of reasonable possibilities in each person's mind. Any counteroffer will naturally react to or be anchored by that opening offer. 

"Most people come with the very strong belief they should never make an opening offer,"says Leigh Thompson, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "Our research and lots of corroborating research shows that's completely backwards. The guy or gal who makes a first offer is better off." 

Confirmation bias

We tend to listen only to the information that confirms our preconceptions— one of the many reasons it's so hard to have an intelligent conversation about climate change.

Watermelon has always been hard to eat without getting juice all over your face.

In a recent video, YouTube star CrazyRussianHacker claims that he has found the secret to eating watermelon cleanly.

His strategy involves taking a slice of watermelon and then cutting off the two sides of the rind. This leaves the succulent center part of the fruit in a diamond shape and makes it much easier to eat.By cutting off the excess rind, you can now attack the watermelon from any angle without having the rind touch your skin and getting juice all over: Here's to mess-free summer BBQs.

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Billboards and outdoor ads can get pretty repetitive after a while.

But every now and then, a company will partner with an ad agency and create something magical and completely new.

In 2013 alone, there were 158,868 billboards in the U.S., 49,082 bus shelter displays, and 205,426 displays on buses, according to a report by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.

Some of these many outdoor ads, however, stood out above the rest in terms of creativity and innovation. 

Some companies used augmented reality while others turned an average billboard into something anyone could use to make their lives a little easier. 

British Airways, "Look Up"

Agency: Ogilvy One, London 

Year: 2014

Did you ever look up and think, "I wonder where that plane is coming from?"

If so, then BA’s “Look Up” campaign has an answer for you.

The ad features a virtual boy on a video billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus. The boy points to a plane flying overhead (he’s pointing at a real BA plane, by the way) and the billboard shares the plane’s flight number and where it's coming from.

See the amazing ad in action:  

Toyota, "The billboards that came from nature went back to nature"

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Australia 

Year: 2014

The people at Toyota, being the eco-friendly bunch that they are, took the idea of temporary and created a new way to advertise the Prius.

They made their billboards entirely out of materials found in nature like sand, mud, and grass. Over time, the billboards wore down, but before that happened people shared pictures of the campaign all over social media, making the temporary ads a success.

IBM, People For Smarter Cities

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, France

Year: 2013

Ogilvy & Mather France used IBM’s outdoor campaign to solve some pesky, everyday problems people face when they live in a city.

The agency created this innovative campaign by turning three of IBM’s outdoor ads into functional items. One ad doubled as a bench, another as a spot to stay dry when it rained, and another functioned as a ramp. 

There are dozens of computer programs out there for editing images and creating art, but you probably wouldn't guess that Microsoft Excel is one of them.

We don't blame you — Excel is typically associated with bland spreadsheets, crunching numbers, and boring charts.

But Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 74-year-old man from an area in Japan called Nagano Prefecture, has discovered how to make stunning works of art using Excel spreadsheets.

Horiuchi's art has been circulating the web over the past several years, so we decided to round up some of his best work in one place.

Horiuchi began using Excel to create art after he saw others using the program at work, he said to PC Online.

But Horiuchi never actually used Excel for office purposes, as it's intended to be used.

"I saw other people neatly drawing graphs, and I thought it seemed like Excel could be used to draw art," he told PC Online.

Yelp recently moved into a brand-new space in downtown San Francisco, and the new digs are a sight to behold. 

The review site now occupies the 2nd to 16th floors in a 1920s-era Art Deco high-rise in the city's Financial District. All together, the company is taking over an incredible 106,000 square feet of space. 

There are plenty of quirky elements in Yelp's new office, including a full-service coffee shop and general store fully stocked with candy. The design itself is beautiful, too, with lots of exposed brick and reclaimed wood.

The space was designed by Studio O+A, who previously completed offices for Facebook, Square, and PayPal.

Yelp occupies floors 2 through 16 in a high-rise in downtown San Francisco. The designers placed the reception area on the ninth floor so as to encourage visitors and staff to move through the building. The front desk is bright and inviting.

The designers wanted to make the lobby worth a trip up the elevator, so they rebranded the area as the "General Store," complete with a gold-lettered glass wall and lots of company merchandise.

The merchandise isn't for sale, but guests can help themselves to the candy along the windows.

Retired Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is set to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for bravery, on June 19. Carpenter will be the third Marine to be awarded the medal since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Carpenter, now 24-years-old, will be recognized for covering a grenade with his body to save the life of a fellow Marine in 2010, when he was a 21-year-old lance corporal. Both Carpenter and the soldier, his friend Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio, were badly wounded in the blast. They both survived. 

Since 2010, Carpenter has embarked on a remarkable recovery. Carpenter was labeled as patient expired on arrival when he first arrived at a hospital after the blast. Three and a half years later, Carpenter insists that he is just getting started with his recovery. Already, he has gone on to run marathons and skydive. 

As Carpenter told the Marine Corps Times in March, "I'm still here and kicking and, you know, I have all my limbs so you'll never hear me complain."

Kyle Carpenter was born in Jackson, Mississippi, where he lived until he enlisted with the Marine Corps in 2009.

After completing his training, Carpenter was deployed to Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

While serving, Carpenter (left) became close friends with Nicholas Eufrazio (right). On November 10, 2011, Carpenter threw himself on-top of a grenade in order to save Eufrazio's life.

Phil Maloof, a member of a prominent Las Vegas hotel family, is selling his massive penthouse in Las Vegas for $38 million, making it the most expensive home on the market in the city, according to Curbed.

The Maloofs have had a large presence in the business world, as they previously owned the Sacramento Kings and also helped to create the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

The penthouse is located at Palms Place and spans 27,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space — large enough to fit 500 people. The fully furnished home's high price tag gets you quite a few special features, including an outdoor theater, a DJ booth, and a full gym.

Maloof is also throwing in one Dali and one Picasso painting for the lucky buyer.

This is the most expensive home for sale in Las Vegas since Wayne Newton's ranch hit the market for $70 million and failed to sell, even after being reduced to $48 million.

The penthouse has a combined 27,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor living space.

You can see miles of flat land from the rooftop.

The rooftop area features an outdoor theater and plenty of seating.

It's common to argue over whether puppies or kittens are cuter, but what about hummingbirds and wombats?

We thought wild animals deserved some love too, and came up with the 20 cutest undomesticated animals.

From koalas to tamarin monkeys, these are the world's cutest wild creatures.

Did we forget your favorite wild animal? Let us know in the comments.

Quokkas are one of the smallest species of the marsupial macropod family, and weigh only five to 11 pounds (about the size of a domestic cat). They live in western Australia, and though they seem super cuddly and fun, they are ruthless survivors.

Arctic foxes live — where else? — in the Arctic circle. They can survive in extreme temperatures as low as -58°F, and raise their young in systems of underground burrows that have been used by many generations of foxes.

Sea otters live in kelp forests on the coasts of the Northern Pacific Ocean, and often hold hands to keep from drifting away from each other. They float on their backs to crack open shellfish with rocks, making them one of the few species of mammals to use tools.

Amazon's new smartphone, the Fire Phone, hits stores July 25. Preorders started June 18.

At the phone's launch event, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company tried to build a phone that was extremely innovative and different.

Amazon shows off its dynamic perspective feature right from the lock screen. When you tilt the phone, you see the balloons from slightly different angles so they feel 3-D.

Although you can use any picture you wanted, the Fire ships with more than a dozen custom lock screens.

The Fire also shows off its dynamic perspective in games. To play a game, you can use a combination of phone and head tilts to control the action.

On Thursday, President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, making him the 15th recipient of the nation's highest military award for bravery after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The medal is a remarkable honor, and while it is a symbol of courage and sacrifice for those who receive it, it's not something many aspire to.

That's because the criteria for receiving the award is incredibly stringent, requiring significant risk to life and limb in direct combat and a display of "personal bravery or self-sacrifice so extraordinary as to set the individual apart from his or her comrades."

For some service members put into extreme circumstances, the daily grind can give way to moments of incredible bravery that warrants them the nation's highest award.

Often it is the family of the fallen hero who receives the posthumous award. In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been relatively few who have received the honor after more than a decade of combat.

Sergeant First Class Paul Smith held off hundreds of Iraqi soldiers from an exposed position.

On April 4, 2003, after his unit briefly battled and captured several Iraqi fighters near the Baghdad International Airport, Smith instructed his men to build an impromptu holding area for the prisoners in a nearby walled compound.

A short time later, his troops were violently attacked by a larger force. Smith rallied his men to organize a hasty defense, then braved hostile fire to engage the enemy with grenades and antitank weapons.

He then ran through blistering gunfire to man the .50 caliber machine gun on top of an armored personnel carrier to keep the enemy from overrunning the position, completely disregarding his own safety to protect his soldiers.

Smith was mortally wounded during the attack, but he helped defeat the attacking force which had more than 50 enemy soldiers killed, according to his award citation.

Award Presented (posthumously): April 4, 2005

Corporal Jason Dunham dove on an enemy grenade and saved the lives of two Marines.

While his unit was engaged in a major firefight in Iraq along the Syrian border on April 14, 2004, Dunham and his team stopped several vehicles to search them for weapons.

As he approached one of the vehicles, the driver lunged at Dunham's throat and they fought in a hand-to-hand battle. Wrestling on the ground, Dunham then yelled to his Marines, "No, no watch his hand."

The insurgent then dropped a grenade with the pin pulled. Dunham jumped on top of it, placing his helmet between his body and the grenade in an effort to brunt the explosion.

"He knew what he was doing," Lance Cpl. Jason A. Sanders, who was in Dunham's company, told Marine Corps News. "He wanted to save Marines' lives from that grenade."

He saved the lives of at least two Marines and was mortally wounded in the blast.

Award Presented (posthumously): Jan. 11, 2007

Lieutenant Michael Murphy went into the open during a fierce battle to call for support.

While leading his Navy SEAL team on June 28, 2005, to infiltrate and provide reconnaissance on a Taliban leader, Murphy and the three other members of his team came under withering gunfire from 30 to 40 enemy fighters.

The fierce gunfight pitted the SEALs against insurgents on the high ground, and they desperately called for support as all four operators were hit by gunshots.

When his radioman fell mortally wounded, and with the radio not able to get a clear signal, Murphy disregarded the enemy fire and went out into the open to transmit back to his base and call for support.

From his Summary of Action:

He calmly provided his unit’s location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team. At one point he was shot in the back causing him to drop the transmitter. Murphy picked it back up, completed the call and continued firing at the enemy who was closing in. 

"I was cursing at him from where I was," Hospital Corpsman Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of the battle, later told The New York Times. "I was saying, 'What are you doing?' Then I realized that he was making a call. But then he started getting hit. He finished the call, picked up his rifle and started fighting again. But he was overrun."

Award Presented (posthumously): Oct. 23, 2007

Yesterday, American Apparel fired its founder and longtime CEO Dov Charney.

The move comes as a shock, because for years Charney has had voting control of his company's stock and he's successfully faced down a series of sexual harassment allegations — many of which turned out to be false or have no legal basis. (Charney famously gave the company an overtly sexual image: He was known to have girls in bikinis wash the factory roof.)

Allan Mayer, the company’s newly appointed cochairman, told The LA Times,"This is not easy, but we felt the need to do what we did for the sake of the company ... Our decision to do what we did was not the result of any problems with the company’s operations." He said the board launched an investigation into Charney's sex life earlier this year after "new information came to light."

In the beginning ...

American Apparel was started by Dov Charney while he attended Tufts in the late 1980s.

By 1997, the company moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to Los Angeles. In 2000, American Apparel moved into its current Los Angeles factory. In 2006, the company was sold for more than $380 million to Endeavor Acquisition Corp. in a shell transaction that let APP begin trading immediately as a public stock.

Charney stayed on and ran the company — until today.

In 2004, concerns about the sexual nature of the company's corporate culture emerged.

Charney gave an infamous interview with Claudine Ko, about the company, Charney, and the women around him.

Ko claimed Charney masturbated in front of her — multiple times.

What followed were a series of lawsuits from former employees, totaling nine by 2013, regarding sexual harassment, naked pictures, and more. In one of them, filed in 2011, a woman alleged Charney trapped her in his home as a sex slave.

But by the mid-2000s, sales were booming.

2008 was a very good year, until ...

... Charney called his CFO a "complete loser."

Ken Cieply resigned a few weeks later and the stock had one of its worst months in history. It would get temporary reprieve, but then suffer with the rest of the markets in the fall of that year.

By December, there were still reasons to celebrate a bit: rapid expansion, success in the U.K., domestic praise, and a great online strategy. 

When Robert Downey Jr. found out that he was going to play Iron Man in the movies, he said, "We need to sit down with Elon Musk."

That's because Musk — colonizer of Mars, transformer of cars, shepherd of solar panels — is the closest thing we've got to a superhero. 

Born in South Africa, he sold his first software — a game called Blastar— when he was only 11. He went on to found and sell a startup to Compaq for $300 million in 1999, and parlayed that into a major stake in PayPal, which eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002.

With that dough, he got into three world-changing companies: Tesla, SpaceX, and Solar City. And though Tesla and SpaceX nearly went bankrupt, each of the companies is now shifting their industries. 

Yet Musk — with his 100-hour workweeks, estimated $11.7 billion net worth, and habit of never taking a note in meetings — remains enigmatic. So we went looking for clues to his vision, goals, and thinking process. 

Here's what we found.

On finding your own education

"My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment — my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

"When I asked for an explanation, I got the true explanation of how things work. I also did things like make model rockets, and in South Africa there were no premade rockets: I had to go to the chemist and get the ingredients for rocket fuel, mix it, put it in a pipe."

[Wired, October 2012]

On his childhood experiments

"It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers."

[Businessweek, September 13, 2012]

On his favorite book when he was a teen, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"It taught me that the tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but that once you do that, the rest is really easy."

[Businessweek, September 13, 2012]

In its annual Luxury Lifestyle Report, Sotheby’s International Realty breaks down what’s important to wealthy real estate buyers.

When it came to amenities, Sotheby’s International Realty brokers said the number of clients who wanted a home with “smart amenities” has increased drastically over the last two years. These include appliances, lighting, entertainment systems, security, and more that can be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world.

China’s wealthy real estate investors also valued space to display their massive art collections, while U.S. buyers were mostly interested in having a multi-car collector’s garage, according to the report.

But location was definitely the top priority for luxury buyers around the world, with 71% of respondents telling Sotheby’s International Realty they would pay more for the home's location over its size, historic significance, or previous (famous) owners.

And where do the 1% around the world want to live? Anywhere close to the water.

Luxury buyers in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand, as well as those in Caribbean and Central America all searched predominantly for waterfront properties on sothebysrealty.com.

But high-end buyers from Spain, Venezuela, and Mexico were all more likely to look for mountain mansions. Russia was a major outlier, with its wealthy residents searching for countryside properties 83% of the time.

The survey was sent to Sotheby’s International Realty's affluent consumers over 25 years old all over the world, from the U.S. to China, between January 28 and February 18, 2014. Search data came from sothebysrealty.com using Google Website Analytics between January 1, 2013 and January 1, 2014. You can read more about the methodology here.

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Germany's World Cup team is staying at a custom-built luxury resort in Brazil.

The resort, called the Campo Bahia, was privately financed by a German investor and it won't open to the public until the World Cup is over.

There are 14 villas, a training center, a pool, a bar, and a specifically-oriented practice field at the resort, and right now the German national team has the place all to itself.

Judging by the photos, Campo Bahia is easily the swankiest World Cup camp.

The resort is on a remote beach that's 15 miles from the town of Porto Segura.

When it opens to the public, the resort will offer diving, fishing, and kite surfing.

Each villa has at least 5 bedrooms.