Category: retail
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Help! I created a monster.
Help! I created a monster. Guess where ‘Someone’ wants me to go and wants me to do once I get there. I’m so close to taking away the DTV box & telling her to go listen to the radio.
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Trying to shop at Target.com? You might have to wait a while.
So much for seeing what they have before I go. Fortunately, there is a store within reach. Off I go to to shop “old school.”
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Next Stop for Apple: Grand Central Terminal
via cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com Honestly I don’t know what will be worse, waiting and/or dodging crowds for that express train or waiting it out for the next product release.
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Retailers Go Green: Ditching Paper And Emailing Receipts
via huffingtonpost.com This isn’t anything new, Apple’s been doing this for a while. Are other businesses going to follow suit?
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Old School 1, Apple 0 – Apple lets Woman Pay for iPad with Cash
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=kgo§ion=&mediaId=7451439&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&site= You know you’ve done a good job training your elder when they spot a technology story. A California woman saved her hard earn money for an iPad, went to Apple, but was denied. Read more about how it turned out. Apple reverses its no-cash payment policy for iPads.
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Layway makes a comeback
On the Mama’s Keeper blog, Gram talks about how layway is coming back strong and what lessons people can use from the old school. Something to think about on a day like today being Black Friday and all.
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Sunday Drugstore Shopping: Comparing Online Store Circulars
Its another quiet Sunday Morning in the big city. I was sound asleep when the phone rings. Who is it? Then I look at the caller id. It could be one of two people that have veto power to call me. Its Grandma. “Steph, if and when you go out, please get a 9 volt battery.…
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The Declining Literacy Rate of the American Mall
Are bookstores going extinct? It sure seems so lately. I took Grandma to the mall the other day for a long overdue excursion. One of the items on my list was to buy a particular book. Sure I could have of ordered it online, but since I was going to the mall anyway, I figured…
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