Consumer Confidential: Wine, funky flashlights, Google

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Here’s your whopping-Wednesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web:

• A little vino with your Slim Jim? Our friends at 7-11 say they’ll be introducing a low-priced wine in the United States and Japan. Sold under the Yosemite Road brand, the 7-11 wine will cost about $3.99 and will come in chardonnay and cabernet varieties. Heads up, Two Buck Chuck.
• Did you buy your kids a Halloween flashlight from Target? If so, you got more trick than treat. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of the made-in-China flashlights after receiving multiple reports of the devices overheating and even melting. Needless to say, this represents a burn hazard. More than 600,000 such flashlights were sold, so make sure you’re not among the owners.
• Google spent more than $1 million lobbying politicians in Washington during the most recent quarter. They grow up so fast, don’t they?

-- David Lazarus