A new study reveals that the average woman owns 19 pairs of shoes at any given time, and in the course of her lifetime, she’ll buy 469 pairs of shoes and spend nearly $25,000.
How do you increase consumer spending and make the local economies in Asia grow? Give everybody credit cards. What does this mean to you? Your own credit card may be increasing your consumer spending.
Having a job may cause you to gain weight. Not having a job may also cause you to gain weight.
The idea that a certain kind of sneaker will significantly help the wearer get in shape and lose weight is “utter nonsense,” according to a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Another expert says, “Nothing about these shoes has any redeeming value.”
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Recent reform measures that restrict debit-card overdraft fees and tighten credit card regulations are expected to save consumers as much as $5 billion this year. No one expects the banks to sit back and do nothing while once-easy revenue streams dry up, and the speculation is that one tactic banks may soon bank on is [...]
A managing partner of a financial services consulting firm makes a novel argument: Modern-day customer “service” mainstays such as misleading pricing structures, surprise gotcha charges, excessive fees such as debit-card overdrafts and cell-phone ETFs, confusing, always-changing privacy rules, and other policies that drive consumers crazy are actually bad for business.
“You can have anything you want, but you can’t have everything you want.”
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The fan is often thought of as the poor man’s air conditioner. But you might want to use a ceiling fan even in rooms that have A/C, and you might want to turn the fan on even in the winter.
All of those spreadsheets, business models, and marketing ideas you’ve been poring over in your parent’s basement—perhaps between video games and bong hits—may have been a waste of time.
