It’s that time of year or soon will be. People will soon be combing the stores… online and otherwise for the perfect gift and it is becoming more and more popular to simply buy gift cards and hand them out. I don’t know about you, but I love Gift Cards. There’s just one problem with them. Okay, I have a few problems.
1. They are lost. I have heard more than one horror story about them being tossed out on Christmas morning with the gift wrap. Now that has to hurt.
2. They are tucked into their handbag and forgotten. I …read more

Have you noticed just how often stores try to sell you more than you intended to buy? It’s been happening for years. Actually when I worked for a department store years ago, the store even offered a class to teach us  how to “trade up”. The customer would come in to buy a handbag and we were instructed to suggest one that was more expensive. I won’t say what department store it was, but I’m sure that they all do it.
And then there is the famous line… would you like fries with that? The staff obviously have been told to ask… just in …read more

A study was conducted recently to find out just what annoys shoppers the most and I think that you probably guessed it! 
“Our goal was to find out what annoys American consumers most when they shop and the answer came back loud and clear: SALESPEOPLE, especially those who don’t have the product knowledge they should have,” says Paula Courtney, President, the Verde Group. “A host of issues — including the disappearance of salespeople when they are needed, long check out lines, over-solicitous and insincere salespeople, and being ignored by sales staff — is alienating shoppers and losing big bucks for American …read more

“IMPULSE shoppers, watch out. Your cellphone might soon get you into trouble.
A company called ShopText has introduced a system that lets people buy products instantly using text messages, a process that eliminates the need to go to a store or even visit a Web site. For instance, a woman seeing an ad for a pocketbook in a magazine can order it on the spot simply by sending the text code found beside the item through her cellphone.”
Some shopaholics out there are going to love this and some of you are going to say that it …read more

Our garden is just a mass of mud in varying stages of drying out. I have no clue when the grading, top soil and sod will be laid, but I kind of like this in a quirky kind of way. Okay, I have never had a “Chameleon Solar Chameleon Fiber Optic Gazing Ball” before.
Okay, I can’t wait to see her comments on this one. For those of you who don’t know, she designs gardens for a living, so I’m sure she’s going to have something to say about this little purchase!
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Strange But …read more