Archive for the 'Cash' Tag
Walmart Bringing Ecommerce to Cash Customers
Bloomberg: “Next month, Walmart.com is starting ‘Pay With Cash,’ aimed at the 20 percent of Wal-Mart customers who can’t shop online because they don’t have bank accounts or credit cards. Using the new program, these core Wal-Mart customer can reserve products online and pay cash at their nearest store. Wal-Mart is reaching out to more [...]
Inside The Fed’s $100 Billion Printer Error
Whoops! The new bills’ high-tech anti-counterfeiting features were too much for government printers. Now about a billion bills are in quarantine, and many will need to be burned. Printer errors–we’ve all been the victims at one point or another. But what if a printer error set you back $100 billion? That’s the situation the Federal [...]
How You Pay For Stuff Could Determine How Much You Pay
According to a story at USA Today, soon the form of payment you use could also influence the price you pay for your purchase. Last week, the Department of Justice and seven states filed a lawsuit that charged Visa, MasterCard and American Express with engaging in anti-competitive practices. At issue are rules that prohibit retailers [...]
Entrepreneurs Need A Solid Handle On Cash
Whether you’re running a startup or you are a fortune 100, it is important to have a firm grasp on your financial situation. Unlike most big companies with a CFO your small business or startup only has one money manager, you. According to abj Entrepreneur, Philip Campbell has written a new book that’ll help entrepreneurs [...]
Often times when owning your own business it becomes clear that you are bringing in a ton of money/profit, but you are not able to hold onto as much of that profit as you hoped you would. Why is that? Well, this happens for a number of reasons. Look below for some possible reasons and solutions [...]
Retailers Taking in More Cash with eBillme
According to Website Magazine, online supplier of home appliances Number1Direct.com is one e-commerce company that has experienced firsthand the value of expanding its checkout options for a growing customer demographic: shoppers who prefer cash over credit. Since adding the secure payment option eBillme, the leading retailer has seen a 44-percent improvement in cart abandonment, a [...]
