Kicking Off Make-Or-Break Holiday Season For Retailers Let the games begin. The pundits have weighed in on the back-to-school shopping period, which means one thing is certain: The kickoff to the winter holidays, retailers’ make-or-break selling season, has officially begun. Here’s a snapshot of back-to-school forecasts based in part on shopper surveys. Accenture, the global management […] Read More → 
Jeff Jacoby When it comes to tax relief, I am a committed Friedmanite: I embrace the teaching of the late great Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, who often declared that he was “in favor of any tax cut, under any circumstances, in any way, in any form whatsoever.” Friedman’s premise was that the […] Read More → 
Receipt printers are more than just handy items to have around your shop they are also important items. These printers offer you the ability to keep receipts for yourself or to give out receipts to customers, both of which are important to all small businesses. This blog is going to explore the importance of receipt […] Read More → 
The cost of living in the U.S. rose more than forecast in May, reflecting broad-based gains that signal inflation will move closer to the Federal Reserve’s goal. The consumer price index increased 0.4 percent, the biggest advance since February 2013, after climbing 0.3 percent the prior month, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington. […] Read More → 
Online shoppers often fill up their carts and bail at the last minute when the bill comes. Usually it’s because they can’t remember their log-in, don’t have their wallets handy or can’t bear to fill out a credit-card form. A Swedish startup called Klarna has discovered a way to get people to complete more purchases […] Read More → 
There is a big secret out there in the grocery store aisles that no one wants you to know. There is a hoax of monumental proportions that is being perpetrated on the American public. Before I tell you what it is, let me remind you of some things that you already know. It’s no secret […] Read More → 
Feds spying on customers to get leads on drug busts Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed into an Illinois woman’s home and arrested her after she shopped for some organic fertilizer in a local garden store. Police reports released as part of a lawsuit detail how Four DEA agents and five local cops from Shorewood descended […] Read More → 
Amazon.com Inc launched a new product named Amazon Dash on Friday that allows the user to add groceries and household goods to their shopping lists using the company’s AmazonFresh service. A black-and-white hand-held wand-shaped remote-control features a microphone, speaker as well as a bar-code reader and links directly to the user’s AmazonFresh account. However, the […] Read More → 
The Organic Prepper According to some experts, wheat is more like the staff of death than the staff of life these days. Due to genetic modifications of wheat over the past century (go HERE to learn how scientists “fixed” wheat during the 60s), the grain that appears in nearly every meal in America seems to be causing serious […] Read More →