Abbey announces cash back offer
Credit card holders with the Abbey will be getting a little bit of a bonus from now and until the end of January 2008. As all purchases at the major supermarkets will be eligible for 5% cash back. However this will only count for the first £1000 worth of purchases. Five per cent is not [...]
August 29, 2007Tackling the Parisian homeless problem
Following many complaints of the city’s homeless people sleeping in the doorways of stores and around a shopping centre, the Mayor of Agential a suburb of Paris has chosen to deal with the problem in a slightly different manner.
The plan is to allow the shopping centre to be given some sort of spray that gives [...]
Escaped Emu heads for Wal Mart
Naturally having escaped the enclosure that has been your home for a couple years, the very first place that you would want to visit a store belonging to one of the largest supermarket chains in the world. Which is exactly what Myron the Emu did.
Surprised shoppers watched staff as they tried to capture the big [...]
Shops in Cardiff set for £1bn takings
Cardiff is looking to join the big league of UK shopping centres by the beginning of 2009, when a new John Lewis store opens, which will signal the end of a £250 million spending spree on the cities shopping centre.
The St David’s II will add another 93 shops which it is estimated that the total [...]
Online shopping up in July
For the first time ever UK online sales top £4 billion, but whatever the reasons given, weather, school holidays or work, shoppers have been letting their computers do the shopping for them.
In July the actual figure for online sales touched £4.2 billion, which is an astonishing 80% increase on the same month last year, the [...]
Who is better at shopping?
Well it should come as no surprise that it is women who come out as being better shoppers than men.
According to a survey carried out by a research team in California, USA. This is no accident though, it would appear that women could memorize where certain foods come from and the more calories in the [...]
Grocery shopping with kids for better health
It seems that the result of a study by researchers at the university of Texas proves that taking your kids on the weekly grocery shop can help them to see food in a healthier way. They believe that by seeing fruit and vegetables in their original state could give kids a better upstanding of where [...]
August 17, 2007Shop online with a virtual credit card
Buying products and services online is a booming business, its convenient and there are no stressful days going around the stores, but one thing hangs over the online shopping success story, theft! Or to be more precise, credit card theft. It takes a few seconds and can cost you thousands, but is there an alternative?
There [...]
Mobile shopping comes to the UK
We are not talking about a van that comes around your street, this is real mobile phone shopping. 2shop4 is new to the UK and they do that they are the first company to offer this type of service in the UK.
All that is needed is the user sends a text code (84777) and then [...]
Shopping centres host eco friendly events
Shoppers at the Arndale centre will be submitted to a barrage of eco friendly awareness over the coming week, they will be urged to turn over a new leaf and make pledged to go green, this will be backed up with many activities which are linked to some eco friendly community events.
There will also be [...]
The three cheapest cities for shopping
The world is a much smaller place these days, in some cases you do not even need to visit another part of the world to be able to buy goods. The Internet has changed all of that. But for someone who just loves to shop, the Internet just won’t do. So where are the cheapest [...]
August 9, 2007This Next launches shopping feature
I suppose that you could call This Next a social networking and shopping site, as it gathers details of products from designers, traders and what the users have recommended too, this gives a great variety of products.
So it is only natural that they should take it one step further and create a site similar in [...]
Oxfam becomes Oxtran for one night only
Most people know of Oxfam, their stores can be found in most high streets. Yet the store in Leeds appears to be trying to attract a different type of customer, even if it is only for night a month.
Being given clothes to sell has been the main force behind many charity shops, but it seems [...]
Tesco Jails to be opened in shopping centres
Retailers have the backing of the police with the call for short term prisons; these have been nicknamed “Tesco Jails” for some reason. However shoplifting did reach £767 million just in England and Wales last year. So it is understandable why there is a call for some drastic actions.
Anyone arrested, would have his or her [...]