Paying by fingerprint
It is a belief by many shoppers that with a few years they will be able to pay for their goods and services by simply placing their thumb or finger print onto a biometric pad, they also believe that this will be coming by the year 2015!
But there are even more revealing ideas for [...]
May 9, 2008Shopping for members only
There has been a growing trend for exclusive stores being set up which are for members only. This type of store would seem to be outdated, but on the contrary this form of shopping is taking off, but should we be surprised at this, for it does follow some formats that we are all using [...]
May 8, 2008Online shopping ideas
Finding a great deal is more important now than ever, this is simply because that there is a credit crunch going on at the present and besides why should every one pay out the full asking price for anything.
The first point of call for anyone interested in getting a bargain, not matter how small [...]
May 7, 2008Safer online shopping
As more people begin to use the internet for many of their purchases, there is an opportunity for criminals to cash in on the mistakes that both consumers and businesses make, in order to make the whole online shopping experience so much easier and faster.
Helpful Hints when looking to buy something from an online [...]
May 5, 2008Foods you cannot buy in some places
The tide is turning on the way that food is made and indeed at the same time some foods that are considered to be a little old fashioned. These changing habits in the way that people are eating are having an effect on the cost of food too.
Food prices are creeping up all of [...]
May 2, 2008Music sellers to pay $100 million
It looks like thousands of music writers and publishers could be looking at getting part of a huge $100 million payout from Time Warner, Real Networks and Yahoo after a court established a system of payment that would suit all parties.
Although having said that, this will not necessarily mean that these music content providers [...]
May 1, 2008eBay started as an experiment
Its wonderful when you are able to make your hobby pay, this can take many forms from writing to teaching, but sometimes there comes along somebody who not only can make it pay, they can turn their hobby into a multi billion dollar business.
Granted this does not happen that often, but this is exactly [...]
April 29, 2008Safer online shopping
Despite what some people may be saying, books are still one of the most popular items for buying online, in fact it could be said that the internet as we know it would not be around if we had not been buying books online, all those years ago.
But as ever there is a need [...]
April 28, 2008Male order, men prefer to shop online
The High Street may the domain of the female of the species, but it would seem that there some guys out there are just as driven by the latest fashions, expect that with men they do not visit the High Street stores, they have a much more relaxed and homely way of getting the latest [...]
April 22, 2008Apple world the new shopping experience
Move over Second Life, because Apple is looking to go virtual. This is the new concept in shopping for your Apple devices. The company have applied for a patent which could see the Apple stores either replaced by or enhanced by the creation of a virtual Apple world.
It has to be said that this [...]
April 17, 2008Tax free internet shopping to end in the states
In the states if someone buys a product from a company based in another state they do not have to pay tax on the item, which can work out at good saving. This is very similar to what happens here in the UK. We can buy certain goods from Jersey and get a good saving [...]
April 14, 2008Worldwide food bills
Its fascinating how the price food or rather what the price of feeding an average family costs around the world, it would seem that there are regional variations that mean it is hard to make a direct comparison as the foods available and in fact the diet that they prefer.
Germany: The Melander family of [...]
April 1, 2008Sausages really are not good for you
Researchers have found that by eating just one sausage a day could actually significantly increase the risk of getting bowel cancer, which happens to be one of the most deadly forms of cancer that you can get.
This warning is not just confined to sausages, but to all processed meat products such as bacon, [...]
March 31, 2008Toys R Us sell tattoos for kids
As if things were not bad enough for parents these days, what with trying to keep their kids on the straight and narrow, away from gangs and bullying, keeping an eye on who they are talking to on the internet and on their mobile phones.
Now it seems that the world’s most famous toy store [...]
March 25, 2008Starbucks to pay out tips
There are not many cities around where you cannot find a Starbucks coffee shop, in fact they do seem to be popping up on every street corner, which just proves one thing and that is, we like to get a coffee from this brand. But when you leave a tip you expect this to go [...]
March 19, 2008Man auctions life on eBay
Some people dream about living in paradise, while other goes ahead and live the dream. But occasionally the dream ends and there is nothing else to do other than either get on with life as it is or return to where you had originally come from.
For Ian Usher, he lived the dream in Perth, [...]
March 17, 2008Shopping basket no sales not followed up
It would seem that there is a lot of lost business happening on many ecommerce sites. But it does not necessarily have to be like that at all. What we are talking about here is the amount of times that an online shopper goes through the buying process only to bail out when it comes [...]
March 14, 2008Buying supplements can be bad for your health
Most people who visit the health food store to buy certain vitamins and supplements think that these are doing them good, and why not the adverts that are all over the TV and press are all telling them so. But as we have seen TV and other advertising can sometimes be slightly misleading.
So as [...]
March 11, 2008Beatles on iTunes at last
There are many people today who will be very pleased to hear that ex Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has just signed a deal worth £200 million that will see the music of the fab four being available for the first time on iTunes.
Of course all of the cash will not be going to [...]
March 7, 2008Facebook partners with iTunes
Facebook are always on the look out for some great money making opportunities, after all as they say it is a great marketing tool and why not everyone needs to make some cash from somewhere, don’t they?
By opening up a music section this will allow the users to shop online for their music but [...]