“Would you like the receipt in the bag, or in your email in-box?” Increasingly, this is the question shoppers are being asked at checkout at stores like Sears, Anthropologie, Whole Foods, and Gap.
How’s this for an unorthodox economic indicator: Stores selling secondhand merchandise on the cheap are absolutely booming.
Store reward programs seem like a great deal for shoppers, with instant discounts and special offers not available to non-members. But there are tradeoffs to all these deals. Retailers haven’t designed and instituted these programs out of pure kindness and the generosity of their bottom-line hearts, and at some point the savvy consumer must ask: [...]
Help the earth and get something in return at the same time: free trees, free coffee, free reusable shopping bags, free milkshakes, free skin cleanser, and more.
