Six hundred Starbucks stores to close
They may have been an icon of the nineties and to be fair they probably still are for some people, but unfortunately for Starbucks, they appear to have become a victim of their success. With many rival brands opening up along side the famous Starbucks coffee stores, the market is booming but the profits have [...]
June 30, 2008Spotting fake paintings
There is one major problem with buying paintings, the fact that it may be fake! This is not a new problem, but artists these days are becoming so sophisticated and they have so many resources available to them, that the potential for buying a fake painting is really high.
But this could be a [...]
June 27, 2008V Neck T Shirts the next big thing
As it is the weekend coming up, the guys out there who are thinking about going shopping tomorrow should take notice of the latest fashion when it comes to T Shirts. After all nobody wants to be seen in lasts year style, do they?
So what you are looking for is the deep vee [...]
June 24, 2008Huge screen TV costs £60,000
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June 17, 2008Shopping early for stocking fillers
It may be six months away, but believe it or not people have begun to shop for Christmas already, obviously they are not buying the major items yet, but it is the small little things that are being snapped up.
These are the sort of items that you see plenty of today, but when [...]
June 4, 2008Paying for web content
One of the top guys over at Google has made it clear that in times to come, all content will be paid for on the internet in a similar manner as the print industry works today, with magazines and newspapers.
In fact it was implied that those sites that do not or will not charge [...]
February 25, 2008Fruit and Veg message getting across
The now famous five a day message that relates to eating enough fruit and veg is getting though but only slightly, with 58% of people responding the five a day appeal from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) but this is only three per cent up on the year before.
The FSA’s chief scientist, Andrew Wadge, said: [...]
Slim pants compulsory in Next
It would appear that the bosses at the high street clothing store Next would like to see all of their staff looking as if they have just come off of the cat walk. These revelations come as the thousands of the stores employees have been given a style guide which gives them information on how [...]
February 13, 2008Top Valentines gifts for girls
This time of the year is one gift after another, we had Christmas and now there’s Valentines Day, mothers day and of Easter to come. But Valentines Day is a nice day, it’s when we shower the person that we love gifts etc, but what are the best ones of this year?
Here is a top [...]
February 12, 2008Sugar v Sugar Substitute
When someone decides to begin a diet normally one of the first things is the replacing of sugar with a sugar substitute as these give a level of sweetness but can help in the dieting process, or so we all thought!
Researchers from Purdue University have been conducting tests which may make people think twice when [...]
New cheese kills bugs
Kraft foods are developing a brand new product that if successful will be able to treat people who get intestinal worms. This product is being aimed at a specific marketplace which consists of Asia, Africa and South America. These places are well known to have a problem with intestinal worms and this is particularly high [...]
February 4, 2008Is the Nintendo seal needed again?
If you remember the older Nintendo games they carried the legendary “Original – Nintendo – Seal of Quality” which was printed in gold on the side of all packaging. There have been calls for this to return and analysts have even been asked to look into it, but they say no it should not be [...]