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Financial Management

Double Checking What Cashiers Enter

Today I went to the supermarket and decided to buy some fresh apples by the pound. As usual, there are different brands for you to choose from and usually they are all set at different prices. When I went to the checkout to get them scanned I noticed that the cashier entered a different brand

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Financial Management

Buying Products With No Support

There was news recently about HP touch pad tablets that were being cleared as the company made an announcement that it was trying to exit that business. As a result, you saw companies slash the prices from about $400 to as low as $100. Not surprisingly, a lot of bargain shoppers jumped on the deals

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Financial Management

Your Choice In Deals Invloving Sales Quantity

Today I noticed at a store that it seemed to have so many large quantity deals such as people buying ten boxes of cereal or say those small boxes of rice products. Essentially, on the price tag it listed things such as “Buy 10 for $20” type of deal. My friend was then telling me

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Financial Management

Extreme Couponing

Anyone else see this show? I was just looking at the Inernet for some videos about it as a friend was telling me about the show and how much money people were saving by using an extraordinary amount of coupons. From what I gather, it was like turning $1000 grocery bills into a single digit

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Business

Using The Word Invest As A Sales Gimmick

Like every year at tax time a lot of people are expecting some kind of refund and retailers want a piece of that. What was interesting was that I was reading a sales ad for one company and they were saying how you should just save your money but rather invest it. In this case,

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Business

Paying For A Code In The Box

I thought this was kind of funny. I was listening to this person rant on how he bought this antivirus protection program of sort from a store and inside the box was literally just a piece of paper with a license key and were you can download the product. He was ranting mainly because he

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