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Intel, the world’s largest microchip maker, lowered its sales forecast by $1 billion due to a shortage of hard disk drives caused by the recent severe flooding in Thailand, the company said Monday. Thailand is one of the world’s major production centers for hard disk drives, and if computer manufacturers don’t have enough supply of [...]
When researchers from the University of Arizona set out to study people’s couponing habits and motivations, they discovered that a significant number of the most die-hard coupon aficionados aren’t clipping out of financial need. Among the most extreme couponers — shoppers who report using six or more coupons on every single trip to the grocery [...]
There’s a long, storied history of retailers battling it out for holiday shopping dollars. Price wars, seasonal promotions aimed at one-upping the competition, and price-matching guarantees are all commonplace, and considered fair game. While almost anything goes in the competitive marketplace, Amazon’s bold recent move seemed over the top—perhaps even, as some described it, “evil.”
An anonymous merrymaker spread some holiday cheer last week by paying $500 toward the layaway accounts of three strangers at a Kmart in Michigan. Since then, copycat Secret Santas have followed suit, giving thousands of dollars for layaways in other stores around the country.
More than three-quarters of Americans would blow the whistle on wrongdoing at their workplace, according to a newly released survey — but only if they could do so anonymously, without fear of reprisal, and — and this is a big “and” — there was a monetary reward involved.
Usually when the IRS starts tracking people down, it’s because Uncle Sam is owed some money. But for 100,000 Americans somewhere out there, the IRS is trying to return $153 million.
In 2011, some 3,300 estates will owe federal estate taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center. That’s the fewest in 75 years.
It has been a huge year for retail sales so far in the holiday shopping season, with $52 billion spent over Black Friday weekend and another $6 billion spent online during the “Cyber Week” that followed. Here’s one more hot consumer trend, which is unsurprising given the still-shaky state of the economy: More and more [...]
Job board and career-coaching website CareerBliss.com ranked the 50 Happiest Companies in America for 2012. The company looked at job reviews from more than 100,000 employees and assigned companies a “Bliss Rating” between one and five. With a score of 4.36, the happiest company in America is…
This year, even more shoppers say they’ll be celebrating during the deal season with a little bit (or a lot) of self-indulgence. According to a National Retail Federation poll, 6 in 10 holiday shoppers this season will be making “self-gift” purchases—intended to be kept for themselves or their families, not given away.
The U.S. stock market rallied Friday on hopes that the most recent bailout would save the common European currency and thus reduce the risk of economic and banking problems around the world. Almost immediately, however, cracks started showing in the new bulwark against global economic disruption. Not only did the U.K. refuse to join in [...]
