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Commerce

Unconventional Thinking Sells More Burgers

June 7, 2010

Using sexuality, theatre and bucking the trends, this eatery sells tons of burgers.

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Wowa!Whats Goin On?

January 14, 2009

Magazine advertising figures are way down. And to make things worst one of my secret addictions, American Idol is down 10% in their debut ratings.
Rate-card reported ad revenue declined more precipitously as the year went on, dropping 13.8 percent in the fourth quarter and 7.8 percent for the year. Ad pages fell 17.1 percent in [...]

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Samsung 52 ” LCD HDTV big Seller this Year at Amazon

December 26, 2008

Well, it seems again that online will have beaten the offline retailers.
While retail was/still is giving it away at drastic discounts. Online etailers like Amazon are getting high fives.
Amazon.com Inc. said Friday that the 2008 holiday season was the online retailer’s “best ever,” with more than 6.3 million items ordered and 5.6 million units shipped [...]

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Cyber Monday: Christmas Grinch Slayer?

December 3, 2008

Comscore reports Cyber Monday saw $846 million in online spending, a 15 percent increase over the November loss of 2%.

51 percent of consumers indicated that the level of promotions and discounts is higher this year than last year

12 percent said that there appeared to be fewer, suggesting that retailers are having to be more [...]

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What Recession? Net Sales Up

December 2, 2008

A Shop.org survey says that 84.6 million consumers plan to shop online from home or at work today. This is up from 72 million in ‘07 and 60.7 million in ‘06. The survey found that 37.2 percent of adults will shop online today, up over 16 percent over last year.
83.7 percent of [...]

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