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All Future Shop Stores In Canada Closing Down Suddenly

What a shock this was to read today as a large consumer electronics retail store here in Canada called Futureshop suddenly closed all of its stores without notice. The company was bought out by Best Buy a few years ago and it was stated that half the stores would covert to Best buys as well.

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Business

Understanding Why Retail Companies Destroy Usable Items

I saw some videos today of regular people who were so shocked that a lot of retail businesses would take perfectly usable products and intentionally destroy them. Afterwards, it gets put into a dumpster. Some examples are disc based software where one would purposely scratch it to make it unusable or clothing garment that would

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Such High Prices At A Health Store

I was looking for some apple cider vinegar today and it seems like most of the information I was reading was saying that the products can most commonly be found at health stores. So I naturally looked up some local places. My first reaction was how expensive the prices seemed. And yes, I did factor

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Financial Management

Using Clothing Discount Stores To Evaluate Markups

Today I went shopping for some clothing for thing such as dress pants and shirts. At first I started at the well known stores as apparently they were having a sale. Despite this, the prices were extremely high to the point where you juts have to wonder how much the item is marked up. So

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Business

Buying Items From The Manufacture Site

The other day I was looking to buy an item and was just doing my regular price hunting. The funny thing was my search resulted in me going to the actual company’s website which happened to give people he ability to buy their products in a non wholesale way. Interestingly enough, they were selling them

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Business

Giving People Notice That You Are Closing

It seemed like the top story in so many news reports here today was how the Company Best Buy was closing down a few of its stores due to the lack of sales and how this meant hundreds of people are now unemployed. Interestingly enough the main thing about the story that interested most people

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