Big smoke in Costco car park
It is funny how some places can become totally anonymous these days and it seems the busier the place, the less likely that people are going to take notice of it.
Take the car park of a huge supermarket chain in the US; it is probably the least likeliest place that you would choose to [...]
Bankers wait for bonuses
Walk along any High St and the sight is becoming grim, stores are struggling, some have closed down leaving huge empty spaces that may not be filled for a long time. Yet along the same High St are the branches of the UK banks, despite the problems they are doing all right.
These branches are the [...]
Bank accounts for sale
Identity thieves have obtained the banking details for around three in four German households a magazine is reporting.
To prove the point the thieves have put the details up for sale with an asking price of around £10 million, this money will buy the detail of twenty one million German bank accounts.
In an attempt to force [...]
High St cleaner finds cash
Imagine this, a street cleaner going about his daily business, maybe he was working in the high st, checking out all of the bargains in the store windows, when he reaches one of the litter bins that he has to empty this is a normal day for him up until this point.
This is because after [...]
Exec turned robber
Normally during the lunch break people would go out buy some lunch or even just do some shopping, the shops are normally busy during this period, which just goes to prove this. However, some people have different ideas on what makes a great lunch break.
Take Kevin Pinto from Toronto in Canada, he used his lunch [...]
Eye scans to pay for shopping
It’s funny how technology from the small and big screen make it into the real world, all be it not in the way that they were first portrayed in the screenplay. Take the use of retina scans, this has been seen in Star Trek and other sci fi shows, now you would expect this to [...]
August 11, 2008Shop owner finds Homer euro coin
The one-euro coin is a universal currency, which can be used throughout Europe, but each country makes their particular coins that have their own distinctive markings pressed into them.
In Spain’s case, they have like many countries, the image of their King, but in the northern city of Aviles, a coin with a different leader has [...]
Online shopping on the rise
The cost of fuel and other day to day items has had serious effect on the way that some people of doing their shopping.
With the cost of fuel and food rising almost on a weekly basis, the traditional way of shopping where customers actually visit shops in person is suffering. Instead, bargain hunters are [...]
May 14, 2008Paying by fingerprint
It is a belief by many shoppers that with a few years they will be able to pay for their goods and services by simply placing their thumb or finger print onto a biometric pad, they also believe that this will be coming by the year 2015!
But there are even more revealing ideas for [...]
May 9, 2008Shopping for members only
There has been a growing trend for exclusive stores being set up which are for members only. This type of store would seem to be outdated, but on the contrary this form of shopping is taking off, but should we be surprised at this, for it does follow some formats that we are all using [...]
April 8, 2008Get a great holiday
Having a great holiday is easy, but shouldn’t it be that having a great a holiday is when you return home you do not have to start paying for it then? So in order to do this it is going to be necessary to say up for the holiday which is going to be a [...]
February 21, 2008eBay suffers from changing fees
It would seem that the love affair with eBay the online auction is fading for some sellers who have over the years built up very successful business around the site and have also helped eBay become what it is today.
But the recent changes in how the site charges sellers for placing their items on [...]
Cops go shopping with company credit cards
The Metropolitan Police are under the microscope yet again, this time it is for the irregular spending on police credit cards. It appears that officers attached to the SO15 anti terror division are given American Express cards in their undercover names which they use to travel around the country chasing terrorists.
Yet two officers have been [...]
Big Brother may follow your Credit Card!
It seems that American Express is toying with the idea of using RFID in bedded into their cards. This is not some great idea that will enable them to track a stolen card, no. This could be used to track the card holder as they work their way around the stores and shopping malls.
However not [...]
Abbey announces cash back offer
Credit card holders with the Abbey will be getting a little bit of a bonus from now and until the end of January 2008. As all purchases at the major supermarkets will be eligible for 5% cash back. However this will only count for the first £1000 worth of purchases. Five per cent is not [...]