Shop worker regrets warranty sales
It can be most annoying when you spend several hundred pounds on something only to get the sales person to ask you if you would like to spend another hundred pound or so on an extended warranty.
This business of warranties has got so bad that even the store staff are getting fed up of them, [...]
Shopping for green
Looking at the shelves at the supermarket, you would imagine that turning green is going to cost you a lot more than your regular weekly shopping does and you would probably be right. However, does going green really have to cost a fortune?
The simple answer is no, this is because although the store prices for [...]
Buying groceries on the cheap
The weekly shop has been gradually creeping up in price over the last six months or so, this can mean that for some people who are running their home on a strict budget, the price of the weekly shop is becoming unaffordable.
However, as prices increase on a number of fronts, there is a need to [...]
Fast food secret menu
As with any restaurant there is an off the menu order that can be made when visiting your favourite fast food place, the reason why this is off the menu is simply because they cannot have a huge list for people to choose from.
Nevertheless, below is a list that shows you just what is available [...]
UK bans iPhone ad
The iPhone has been advertised on the TV for a while now, but it seems that these adverts are now to be banned because the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has deemed them to be misleading.
Complaints were made about the adverts claims that the iPhone gives the user access to all parts of the internet, but [...]
Orangina Ad banned
The soft drink known as Orangina has always produced adverts, which reflect the background of the drink, a sort of southern French feel to it. However, occasionally companies want to revamp their image, which may have got a little stale.
However, a French based advertising agency got the contract to make a series of new and [...]
Gay marriage cards on the way
Hallmark is the largest greetings cards company in the US, so they are unlikely to be one of those firms that get things wrong, which is why we should be looking at their latest product. The new line for 2008 is same sex marriage cards in a variety of designs.
This move follows the legalisation of [...]
Tiffany to fight eBay ruling
It was almost four years when Tiffany & Co decided to take the online auction house eBay to court over the amount of counterfeit products for sale on their site.
However, last month a Judge ruled that eBay could be responsible to examine every single item that is listed on the site for authenticity.
Naturally, for a [...]
The iPhone app that does nothing
As we already know there are over a thousand applications for the Apple iPhone, most of these are useful for the person who buys them, otherwise there would not be any point in buying it at all!
Well you would have thought so, but in these days of financial pressure, there are still those people who [...]
Wake up to a fry up
In these days when it is difficult to think of things to buy for birthdays and other occasions, it is sometimes a good idea to take a look at the person that you are buying for and what they are like. For someone who has a problem getting up in the morning then there is [...]
July 29, 2008Foods that do not have to be organic
Maybe we have spent too much time thinking about what we eat or because we are bombarded with material that is telling us that organic is best, which is some it is because in organic produced fruit and vegetables there are no pesticides used.
However, this can be true of some non-organic fruits and vegetables. [...]
July 23, 200810Kg Lobster causes bidding war
The site of a huge lobster is enough to get the taste buds of many seafood lovers going, so when a lobster appeared in a local fish shop in Shediac, New Brunswick there was quite a bit of interest from people who had very different ideas on what they wanted to do with the lobster.
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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 [...]
July 14, 2008The most expensive foods
There is no doubt that food prices have been increasing at an alarming rate, which is having some severe problems on people from all around the world. After all if we think about it, the prices are high here, but imagine how bad it is for people in countries that have little food and even [...]
July 10, 2008Fill up with hydrogen at home
They say that using a hydrogen fuelled car is a lot better than using conventional fuel like petrol or diesel, but buying an hydrogen powered car is one thing, filling it up is a completely different story as there are hardly any places where hydrogen can be bought.
But now a company from the UK, [...]
July 8, 2008A race for a shopping spree
In these days of credit crunches and rising prices, what has a girl got to do in order to get out the shops and have a bit of retail therapy?
Well in Belgium they have found interesting way to the women out onto the streets and trying to get some cash for those all important [...]
July 2, 2008Six hundred Starbucks stores to close
They may have been an icon of the nineties and to be fair they probably still are for some people, but unfortunately for Starbucks, they appear to have become a victim of their success. With many rival brands opening up along side the famous Starbucks coffee stores, the market is booming but the profits have [...]
June 30, 2008Spotting fake paintings
There is one major problem with buying paintings, the fact that it may be fake! This is not a new problem, but artists these days are becoming so sophisticated and they have so many resources available to them, that the potential for buying a fake painting is really high.
But this could be a [...]
June 27, 2008V Neck T Shirts the next big thing
As it is the weekend coming up, the guys out there who are thinking about going shopping tomorrow should take notice of the latest fashion when it comes to T Shirts. After all nobody wants to be seen in lasts year style, do they?
So what you are looking for is the deep vee [...]
June 25, 2008Microsoft fears the rise of open source
If there is just one thing that the top execs at Microsoft fear it’s the threat from the success of all of the open source projects that are springing up all over the net. That is according to Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect, who was speaking at a conference in New York.
Most people [...]