Valentine’s day is tomorrow and one news that has been expressed is how retailers are preparing for the Valentine’s day rush where people will buy everything from chocolates to roses without thinking much about the price. If anything people are more concerned about having anything to give to prevent the chances of being scolded by
Today here in BC it was an introduction of a new statutory holiday called BC family day where the intent was to try and give people time off to spend time with their family. What I thought it was kind of interesting though was that for the most part a lot of people were still
Kind of interesting today as there was a discussion about secret shoppers and how companies spend a lot of money contracting third parties to help evaluate the business and its employees. At first I asked what company they used and funny enough I was told they didn’t use a company but rather they simply asked
I was told today of a company where they hired various people to do promotional work for a certain brand and a funny situation occurred where an employe was seen using a competitor’s product and seemed very happy. I guess you can say that was bad PR for them as the competitor took pictures of
While getting a haircut today the owner told me an interesting happening where for some reason a lot of potential male customers would come in the store and ask if they cut men’s hair as well. She thought this was weird as she doesn’t advertise the store as women only and she even has prices
This was an interesting subject as there was a debate on why one particular Internet platform was so much more popular than another in terms of a user-base. On paper it would seem like the one that has more useful information and dedicated users would prevail. However, its user base was nowhere near what the