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Business Financial Management

Employees Getting Sales Before Customers

So as mention in my previous post Blockbuster is officially closing its doors in Canada and a lot of people are anticipating for a liquidation sale. According to press releases such as here at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/07/c9209.html it seems like the sales are scheduled to start on September 09, 2011 and will go on till about the

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Financial Management

Avoiding Bridge Tolls

Time to make the Trip back to Vancouver today and one interesting note about the travel back is how many bridge tolls there are. My friend that was driving me was saying when she first picked me up from the airport she had to go through a few of them which costs a few dollars

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Financial Management

When Buying Direct Isn’t Cheaper

Today I went to a farmers market and one product that a farmer was selling was maple syrup. It’s no secret that usually farmer market items are more expensive as people are willing to pay extra dollars for the notion that the product is fresh and locally produced. The interesting thing is the city I

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Last Minute Overbooked Flight Deals

While at the airport there was an interesting situation where apparently the airline overbooked six seats. Therefore, they were asking for volunteers who were flexible in changing flight times and date. The thing that made my eyes lit up was how much they were offering to entice people to do so. In this instance, they

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Financial Management

Buying Movie And Event Tickets From Stores

Today I went to a wholesale club store to check out some of the prices they had in comparison to non membership based stores. One thing that caught my attention were these movie theatre passes that were hanging on the wall like a gift card. It was interesting as usually the price of a child

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Financial Management

Researching Local Auctions When Businesses Close

I had a friend today that was frantically searching very large auction company as a small electronic store recently closed its doors. His way of thinking is that most most companies simply sell their inventory to these places as they would rather not deal in trying to get rid of all their old furniture and

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