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Luxury Shoppers Hard to Please

Posted: January 17, 2013 at 11:54 am

A new survey by customer satisfaction research firm ForeSee has found that luxury shoppers are not getting the kind of service they expect from retailers catering to the high-end market. ...
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Walmart Gets OK on Chinese Acquisition (WMT, YHOO, DANG, AMZN)

Posted: August 14, 2012 at 9:27 am

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has received approval from Chinese regulators to boost its stake in e-commerce company Yihaodian to 51%, according to the Wall Street Journal. The financial details ...
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Holiday E-commerce Spending to Greatly Outpace Brick & Mortar (SCOR, AMZN, WMT, TGT)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Many stores are planning to open early on Black Friday in an effort to get a jump on holiday shopping, but spending increases are not expected to rise more than ...
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Social Network Use Lags Among Wealthy and Educated

Posted: August 29, 2011 at 6:32 am

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released new research that shows “Fully 65% of adult internet users now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or ...
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The $4 Gas Threat: Amazon And FedEx Pulled Different Ways

Posted: May 5, 2011 at 1:51 pm

AAA Daily Fuel Gauge: Regular $3.985. The ripple effects from the sharp rise in gas prices have grown tremendously in the last week as regular gas has risen from $3.886 ...
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Media Digest (4/18/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 18, 2011 at 4:08 am

NYSE (NYSE: NYX) wants a large fee from Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) in the event that a merger is not be hampered by antitrust investigators. (Reuters) Synthes said it was in ...
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The Ten Most Surprising Top-Selling Gifts on Amazon.com

Posted: December 7, 2010 at 6:16 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the largest e-commerce business in the world by almost any measure. The company has a market valuation of more than $80 billion, which makes it one ...
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Has Holiday Shopping Activity Started To Falter?

Posted: December 5, 2010 at 7:01 pm

The rate of e-commerce sales growth for this holiday season has begun to slow. And, there is some reason to believe that the problem will become worse. comScore reports that ...
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Chase Website Still Down Intermittently

Posted: September 15, 2010 at 10:51 am

The Chase.com website is still down off-and-on, probably due to a huge influx of traffic created by the demand of customers who want access to their accounts after a one-day ...
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