Retail

3 Ways to Make Money with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:17:59 -0500

There’s no doubt that Non-Fungible Tokens are the most popular trend in the crypto community right now. From celebrities to respected companies, everyone is talking about launching their own NFTs. But not all NFTs are made equal...

These Products Will Help You Get Through Holiday Stress

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Sure, the holidays are great — unless you happen to be hosting about five more people than you originally anticipated, the turkey gets dry and the mall runs out of the perfect gift you'd been eyeing for your best friend. Take a deep breath (and a generous sip of eggnog) — we've got ten items that are guaranteed to loosen your white-knuckled grip on that roll of wrapping paper you're clutching.

Featured Resource: Consumer Reports Digital

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0400

The Consumer Reports staff of researchers, field experts, physicians, and lab scientists work to find the hidden truth within virtually every product and service you want to buy. Through unbiased reviews, ratings, and valuable input from subscribers, Consumer Reports helps you find the best and get the most out of everything you buy and use.

The World’s 44 Best Hotel Bars

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Ordering a gin and tonic at The Ritz-Carlton, Macau is quite the affair. First, Giuseppe Carillo rolls the Five-Star hotel’s heaving gin trolley over to your group. Then...

Q4 Strategy Pivots for Marketers to Consider

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Influencers are far from losing marketing power. According to the State of Influencer Marketing 2019 report, 320 platforms and influencer marketing agencies have been created since May of 2018, and brands are still seeing...

The major sales tax trend affecting Finance now

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Right now, there’s a notable sales tax trend sweeping through states. And if your company hasn’t been impacted yet, it will be soon.

States are changing their tune on who can pay sales tax on purchases. Many have passed laws allowing...

6 Ecommerce Digital Marketing Tips for More Online Sales

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:00:00 -0400

The percentage of total retail sales attributed to ecommerce has been growing with each passing quarter for years. That healthy market is good news, but...

7 Things To Buy Before More Trump Tariffs Take Effect On December 15

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0400

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and his pronouncements about tariffs have been rocking the stock market and investors.

Now...

This Entrepreneur Built an Amazon-Style Marketplace That's Just for People Living Paycheck to Paycheck

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Meet Beverly. She's worked at UPS for 10 years. She has one to two kids and is earning $40,000 to $50,000 per year. She has limited or no access to credit and can't handle an unexpected expense of more than $500. And her fridge just broke...

Realignment Of Global Auto Manufacturing Is Picking Up Speed

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

The outlines of the future of the auto industry are becoming clearer as recent news developments underscore determinative trends that finally are reaching critical mass. These trends include...

Save more money with sales tax exemptions: 4 keys

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0500

To cut costs whenever and wherever possible, your finance staffers must be able to recognize purchases that qualify for sales and use tax exemptions. But that’s easier said than done.

Even B.J. Pritchett, president of Pritchett Sales & Use Tax Consulting, admits that...

Americans Tightened Their Belts, And It Might Hurt Economic Numbers Important To Trump

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500

What started off as a strong holiday shopping season ended with a whimper, as consumers, rattled by a trade war and a government shutdown, tightened their belts. The Commerce Department said...

Why Amazon's dream of a New York City headquarters imploded

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0500

Not long ago -- three months to be exact -- Amazon's giant HQ2 project was considered a national prize.

The largest e-commerce company in the world had planned to create a second major campus outside its Seattle mothership as it worked toward even more expansion. City leaders across the country clamored for the attention of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in their quest to land the $5 billion development and its promise of 50,000 high-paying jobs.

Then...

EBay Owns Just a Slice of the U.S. E-Commerce Market. Here's Why It's Leaning on Brick-and-Mortar Businesses for Help

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Back in March, eBay offered a lifeline to the small town brick-and-mortar shops that have suffered as retail sales have shifted online. The company said it would target about 100 small businesses in towns like Akron, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan, and teach them how to sell online via a year-long program dubbed Retail Revival...

5 Retail Marketing Tips to Drive More Calls and Revenue in 2019

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0500

All in all, 2018 was a happy holiday for retailers across the US. According to Mastercard SpendingPulse, retail spending from November 1 through December 24 increased 5% from 2017, its best growth in six years. Online shopping in particular increased...

So Long, Copycats. Warby Parker Is Already Onto Its Next Big Thing

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Warby Parker has always had its eyes on the future. Yet when the eyeglass company first launched in 2010, naysayers thought its direct-to-consumer model eschewing traditional retail channels seemed, well, shortsighted. "We got a lot of advice from people that said...

Cyber Monday 2018: We Found The 30 Best Deals And Sales Online, Period

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Prime Day was just a few months ago, but Amazon has come swinging into Cyber Monday with discounts on many of its devices and services. Confused about the differences among all the Amazon products? Here's a complete guide...

10 Early Black Friday Tech Deals You Can Find On Amazon Right Now

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:30:00 -0500

We all seem to have agreed that it's totally okay to begin playing holiday music the day after Halloween, so why not move up when we celebrate Black Friday, too? Amazon is doing just this because it wants to dominate anything and everything shopping-related. And so even though it's only Monday...

Best [Tech] Black Friday deals 2018

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0500

Black Friday is Nov. 23 this year, but major retailers have revealed their big Thanksgiving holiday sales earlier than ever. From "leaked" newspaper circulars to splashy web reveals, we've already started to see some of the biggest stores' Black Friday sale prices hit the internet. As usual...

Pentair ETI 400 Heater

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0400

MORE STAYING POWER. MORE SAVING POWER

The job of a heat exchanger is to capture heat from burning gas and transfer it to your pool’s water—the more efficiently, the better. The combination of operating heat and pool water chemistry is very tough on exchangers, leading to corrosion and failure. That’s why we made the ETi 400 High-Efficiency Heater’s direct-fire heat exchanger from pure titanium. It provides a long life even under extreme conditions and is the most corrosion-resistant material in the industry. The ETi heater has the highest efficiency in its class and is the longest lasting heat exchanger ever built, with ASME-certified construction.

Tesla Secures Land In Shanghai For First Factory Outside U.S.

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:48:00 -0400

Electric auto brand Tesla Inc. said it signed an agreement Wednesday to secure land in Shanghai for its first factory outside the United States, pushing ahead with development despite mounting U.S.-Chinese trade tensions. Tesla, based on Palo Alto, California, announced plans for the Shanghai factory in July after the Chinese government said it would end restrictions on full foreign ownership of electric vehicle makers to speed up industry development. Those plans have...

Some Amazon Employees Are Reportedly Accepting Cash Bribes From Online Sellers To Delete Negative Product Reviews

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 06:46:07 -0400

For Amazon's online sellers, a negative product review can be extremely damaging to businesses selling their products on the retail giant's site. In order to quash bad feedback, some sellers are offering Amazon employees...

Amazon Becomes The 2nd US Company To Join The $1 Trillion Club (AMZN)

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:10:44 -0400

It's official: Amazon is the second American company to achieve a valuation of more than $1 trillion. Shares of the e-commerce giant gained about 2% in trading Tuesday to hit an all-time high of $2,050.27. Multiplied by the current number of shares outstanding - 487,741,189 - that puts the company's book value just over...

Google Reportedly Had Deal With Mastercard To Track Retail Sales

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:10:45 -0400

Google and Mastercard formed a secret partnership to track whether online ads led to a sale at a physical store, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Neither company has publicly announced the business partnership, which gave Google an invaluable tool for measuring retail spending, Bloomberg reported. Google paid Mastercard...

Walmart's E-Commerce Tactics Against Amazon Look To Be Paying Off

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:37:53 -0400

The fight between Walmart and Amazon - one of the hottest stories in the retail industry - is only getting juicier, and Walmart's Q2 results offer proof. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, saw its shares surge 10% on Thursday as Walmart U.S., more than three-fifths of the company's total business, posted...

Happy Amazon Crash Day

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:19:35 -0400

On one of the biggest shopping days of the year for Amazon.com the company's web site crapped out intermittently for hours yesterday. Instead of Prime Day purchases, many customers just got error messages and pictures of the dogs of Amazon, along with a message from Amazon that read...

Steal This Marketing Tactic From McDonald's And Petco To Dramatically Increase Sales

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:40:00 -0400

Big brands change with the tide or die. In the case of companies like Toys 'R' Us and Blockbuster Video -- death came knocking because they continued to live in the past. Their focus stayed on the physical, while the modern market moved online. While these companies failed to see the writing on the wall, other brands...

Brick-And-Mortar Retail Isn't Dead: Just Look At Who's Moving Into Empty Toys 'R' Us Stores

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:28:37 -0400

Toys "R" Us, which closed the last batch of its U.S. stores just over a week ago, has left behind not only nostalgia but also hundreds of empty stores across the country. Still, if you thought this paints a gloomy picture of brick-and-mortar retail, you'd be mistaken. As much as consumers mourn the death of Toys "R" Us...

A Supreme Court Ruling Could Make Your Online Purchases More Expensive

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:23:26 -0400

In a close decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday determined that states can force internet retailers to collect sales taxes from shoppers even in states where they have no physical presence, handing traditional retailers and state governments a major victory. For years...

Coca-Cola Just Started Selling Its First Alcoholic Drink Ever

Tue, 29 May 2018 07:08:40 -0400

The 132-year wait is over. Monday marks the launch of the first alcoholic Coca-Cola product in company history, but only a small group of people will be able to buy it. The lemon-flavored fizzy drink will be available with 3%, 5%, and 7% alcohol, but only to consumers on the Japanese island of Kyushu. The drink, called...