In today’s nonstop-discount marketplace, virtually every shopper has purchased an item at what seems to be a fair price — only to kick oneself a week later when it pops up in a much cheaper sale.
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Holiday Shoppers Can Look Forward to an Extra Bloated Black Friday
To get in on the Black Friday shopping deals in 2012, it’ll be necessary to skip dessert and miss the end of the football game on Thanksgiving night. Heck, you can start shopping the “Black Friday” bargains long before the …
PayPal Ups Ante in Holiday Season Price-Matching Wars
The battle for holiday shopper dollars continues with the launch of the most impressive-sounding price-matching policy offered yet. As it turns out, the policy isn’t being offered by a retailer, but the payment processor PayPal.
So You Want More Free Shipping? You Got It
If there’s one thing e-retailers hate, it’s shopping cart abandonment. Shoppers fill up their virtual carts and then fail to follow through on the purchase quite frequently. While there are many reasons why this happens, one of …
By Matching Online Prices, Are Best Buy and Target Doing Exactly What Amazon Wants?
When Target and Best Buy recently announced that they would be taking the fight to Amazon during the holiday shopping season by matching prices with major online sellers, many shoppers reacted with the thought: Well it’s about …
All Eyes on Intel as Tech Earnings Kick Off Amid Investor Gloom
It’s that time of year again on Wall Street.
Walmart Announces Same-Day Delivery, Tries to Beat Amazon at Its Own Game
Walmart is the king of all retail, with revenues that are six times greater than its nearest competitor. Amazon has a comparable stranglehold on the e-commerce industry. And while it may have once seemed that each of these …
Romney’s Dismaying Attack on Garage-Based Businesses
The most infuriating moment of the first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
That moment was when Governor Romney, the Republican, in response to a question …
Can Companies Like Walmart and Google Provide a Better Banking Experience Than Actual Banks?
It was a busy Monday for banking news, with one big company rolling out a new prepaid card and another behemoth launching a small business loan program. There’s just one thing that makes this a little bit weird: Neither of the …
Why Black Friday Will Be Subdued, and Cyber Monday Will Break Records
Black Friday has widely been called “the busiest shopping day of the year.” Often, this just isn’t true—the Saturday before Christmas usually yields the most holiday purchases. Quibbles aside, this year, Black Friday is being …
The One Big Asterisk in Retailer Price-Matching Guarantees
Toys R Us, Walmart, Best Buy, and other stores have recently announced their latest guarantees to match prices offered by competing retailers this holiday season. These guarantees sound terrific for consumers, and at first …
Free eBooks For Banned Book Week
This week marks the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, a censorship-awareness campaign backed by “the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types,” according to the American Library Association.