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Blockbuster Closing Sale Store Visit

Today is the first day of the clearance/liquidation sales of the remaining Blockbuster stores here in Canada and as mentioned in a previous post I thought it would be interesting to pay a visit to a store that was nearby and see what it would be like. As expected, there were signs plastered everywhere telling

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Blockbuster Permanently Closing Down Stores In Canada

Seems like the past few days I have been reading so many stories about the video rental chain Blockbuster closing its doors here officially. For bargain hunters, that could mean great deals if you are looking for them. But one prominent point that keeps getting brought up it seems is how way back Netflix offered

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Cannabalizing Sales By Being Too Expensive

The other day I attended a attraction where you had to simply pay two dollars to enter the area. I guess kind of like a tiny museum. One interesting note was that there was an area where the whole ground was on springs of sort and so kids could jump up and down continuously for

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Not So Local Purchases

Today I was literally at a farm where the public can essentially buy items grown right from there and in many people’s mind it is a great way to support local providers. As expected, you pay an extra premium because of this too. There was a couple of intersting bits though such as how one

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Deals From Other Companies During Misfortunes of Others

Today I was looking at how one company recently launched a line of new software products that didn’t exactly get the most positive news. Basically, users complaining that it was more difficult to use, seemed less reliable and so fourth. One of its competitors tried to capitalize on this buy offering what appeared to be

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Lure of Free Food or Items

I noticed there was a grand opening for two different stores. As usual, they try to do things in an effort to draw a crowd. Both of them were trying the free giveaway routine except one business was giving away free food where they were having a free barbeque of sort while the other was

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