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Wireless Food Stamp Transactions Tied to Healthier Shopping
New research links the equipping of mobile fruit and vegetable stands with wireless banking devices programmed to accept food stamps to the buying of more healthy foods by people with low incomes. This is the finding of a survey of 779 shoppers in the Bronx—a New York City borough with many low-income communities—who bought food at 4 of the city’s nearly 500 mobile sellers of fresh produce, known as Green Carts. Some of these food carts were licensed to handle electronic bank transfers (EBTs), the technical term for the transactions, while others were not.
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The big world of teeny-tiny things.
People often say our love of miniatures is about control, that we find pleasure in being large and able to manipulate the small. We learn it as children, with dollhouses, you are empowered to put the bed in the bedroom, or put the toilet in the bedroom, if you want.
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QVC parent buying HSN as shopping shifts online
NEW YORK (AP) — QVC's parent company will buy the rest of Home Shopping Network for about $2.6 billion in a stock deal, combining two of the most well-known home-shopping hubs.
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Chain store closing can be a blow or a blessing for small businesses
"I feel mass/chain store closings scare people, and make them realize how many jobs and tax dollars are lost and want to support the local retailers more," Shlifka says.Photo gallery:
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Apple Pay Promised to Make Plastic Obsolete. Then Came Wary Shoppers, Confused Clerks
Nancy Schrum watched curiously as a colleague from her law firm waved an iPhone above a credit-card reader to buy a Subway sandwich with Apple Pay earlier this year. “I have that, but I’m afraid to use it,” said Ms. Schrum, who feared the technology wouldn’t work. When Apple Inc. launched its mobile-payment service more than two years...
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Retailers Are Going Bankrupt at a Record Pace
Department stores, electronics sellers, and clothing shops are most at risk. Retailers are filing for bankruptcy at a record rate as they try to cope with the rapid acceleration of online shopping. In a little over three months, 14 chains have announced they will seek court protection, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence, almost surpassing all of 2016. Few retail segments have proven immune as discount shoe-sellers, outdoor goods shops, and consumer electronics retailers have all found themselves headed for reorganization.
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How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
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Do you know how to identify well-made clothes?
It is increasingly difficult to find high-quality clothes that will last and look good for years, but it's worth putting in the effort. By Katherine Martinko.
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Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that is terrifying America’s biggest brands
Grocery suppliers are feeling the squeeze — big-time.
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12 Unusual Drive-Through Services
They offer everything but fries. While drive-through windows are often found attached to fast food restaurants and banks, sometimes unlikely businesses also tempt customers with the convenience of staying in your car. Here are 12 of them.
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A struggling mall in Virginia has replaced storefronts with vending machines
Hundreds of retailers are closing stores, peppering shopping malls across the country with darkened storefronts. One mall in Richmond, Virginia, has tried to get creative with some of its shuttered stores in a likely attempt to distract shoppers from the vacated spaces and keep traffic flowing to its remaining tenants. The mall's distraction of choice? Vending machines.
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Honey Review: Browser Extension That Earns You Money!
Available at joinhoney.com, Honey is a free browser extension that automatically finds you money saving coupons, AND also earns you cashback on online purchases! In this "Join Honey review",...
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$2 Billion of Retail Fraud Could Be Ruining Nordstrom’s Legendary Return Policy
Nordstrom’s customer service is the stuff of legend. The Seattle-based retailer consistently ranks as shoppers’ No. 1 choice of department and discount stores for customer satisfaction, even as other stores struggle. Part of the reason shoppers are so loyal to Nordstrom is the company’s liberal return policy. It’s so great that customers often brag about the kinds of returns they can get away with at Nordstrom.
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Amazon starts flexing muscle in new space: air cargo
A cargo plane emblazoned with "Prime Air" descended from an empty sky at Lehigh Valley International Airport on Tuesday, ninety minutes from the bustle of New York City, loaded with crates of goods during the peak holiday shopping season.
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JCPenney, Sears, Macy's and Kohl's sued for fake 'sales'
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, four major retailers have been sued for tricking shoppers with fake "sales." JCPenney, Sears, Macy's, and Kohl's were all hit with lawsuits this week by the Los Angeles city attorney's office over an alleged "false reference pricing scheme" that misled customers into thinking they were scoring big discounts. But the advertised "original," "list," and "regular" prices were never actually charged, according to the suits.
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Petition says close shops on Boxing Day to spare workers
A petition urging shops to stay closed on Boxing Day to give staff a break has been backed by more than 100,000. Retail workers are "being bled dry" by "greedy employers", supporters wrote on the petition's web page. Ian Lapworth, a baker from Kettering, started the campaign a month ago, calling for a return to a less commercialised holiday season. "Forget making money for one day, let's concentrate on making more memories with the ones we love," he said.
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How Walmart plans to transform the way we buy groceries
On a sweaty September morning in the Nashville suburbs, Anna Brummel pulls her white SUV into a Walmart parking lot to stock up on groceries. But she never sets foot in the store. The mother of three had tapped out her order on her smartphone earlier while lying in bed. And now, she parks in a designated spot during a time slot she selected, and Walmart workers load up her car with the goods they picked and packed for her. Walmart is America’s largest grocer, and its aggressive expansion of pickup services has turned its parking lots into a laboratory for the future of online grocery shopping — one of the trickiest puzzles in all of retail.
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Penny-Pinching Millennials Are Keeping the Coupon Alive
A new generation of deal hunters goes digital—and still keeps clipping.
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Everything Stores Do to Trick You into Buying More Stuff
It's a time of economic crunch, and we're all poor and jobless, so stores have to resort to witchcraft and trickery to fool us into giving them our money. High BPM music to make you eat faster in McDonald's, branded scents to make you feel that kick of synthesized nostalgia every time you hit up a Starbucks, low lights, dark lights: There are dozens of environmental cues shops use to make you shop faster, spend more, and come back to do it all over again. "Sensory marketing is one of the things that has been used a lot in the past few years...
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Amazon sues sellers for buying fake reviews
Seller beware — if you buy reviews for your products on Amazon, the company might sue you. As part of its effort to combat fake reviews on its platform, Amazon sued three of its sellers today for using sock puppet accounts to post fake reviews about their products. Amazon has been aggressively pursuing reviewers it does not consider genuine over the last year, often using lawsuits to discourage the buying and selling of reviews, but this is the first time it has sued the sellers themselves.
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