According to WalletPop, if you’ve noticed that returning items to stores isn’t as easy as it used to be, rest assured: It isn’t just you. Thanks to a growing number of people who are returning items they’ve used or never bought in the first place, retailers have been employing a variety of new techniques to […]
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According to ReadWriteWeb, small businesses, mobile vendors and yard sale junkies across the world unite – credit and debit cards have come to the street-side, the festival ground and the front yard with the release of Square. Square is an app for both iPhones and Android devices that allows its users to accept both cash
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“Va-va-vroom!” says the New York Daily News. The world’s most expensive car was sold at auction for a price between $30 million and $40 million. The 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, which the Daily News describes as “curve-alicious,” is one of three French deco models that debuted in Paris in 1935. Designer Ralph Lauren owns
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According to The Arizona Republic, it’s difficult to put a dollar value on Cinco de Mayo, but sales of avocados, tequila and Mexican beer often jump during the holiday period, which can last for several days around the actual May 5 date. Cinco de Mayo celebrates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French
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Have you ever added a pack of gum to your cart while waiting to check out at the grocery store? lf so, you’ve been a victim of impulse shopping. Unplanned purchases not only help drive the economy, but also put shoppers in a better mood by relieving negative emotions such as stress and anger. So
Why the retailing giant brought in over 400 billion dollars in revenue for 2009. Stephen Wilkes – Time-Lapse: A Day at A Walmart Store from BERNSTEIN & ANDRIULLI on Vimeo.
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photo credit: Daquella manera In business today it is important to have the freshest ideas that you can think of, and it’s even more important to switch up your original ideas whether it is by coming up with totally new ones or just simply tweaking the originals. Look below for some great ideas I think
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Spiking sales might make for good cocktail conversation, but if you don’t turn a profit–and keep turning one–you won’t be in business very long. With the help of Sageworks, a Raleigh, N.C.-based accounting consultancy and private-company data provider, Forbes assembled a list of the 10 most profitable businesses, on a pretax basis, that aspiring entrepreneurs
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Are any chocolate bunnies or marshmallow peeps in your immediate future asks The Sun News? While it doesn’t have the weeks of buildup of Christmas and it doesn’t drive single-day sales as well as Valentine’s Day, Easter can still be big business. According to National Retail Federation’s 2010 Easter Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, Easter
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Rose Associates, an 80-year-old real estate marketing and management company based in New York City. Rose has 200 employees and manages some 20,000 luxury apartment units. According to a story at Inc.com, Bob Scaglion, Rose’s senior managing director of residential marketing, uses Twitter’s search function for lead generation, which works well, because people often send
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