Tag: consumerism
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Soaring Sports Game Ticket Prices Are Nothing New
For years, hotels and airlines, car rental agencies and energy companies have been using a phenomena known as dynamic pricing to set costs for their consumers. This real-time pricing results in fluctuations depending on a variety of factors, but is often associated with supply and demand – and it is becoming more and more prevalent…
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7 Marvelous Mother’s Day Gifts Under $100
According to the National Retail Federation, Mother’s Day shoppers are expected to spend an average of over $200 cad for the holiday. That’s a lot of retail-driven adoration. From food to flowers to frocks, well-intentioned gifters are indelibly on the hunt for that perfect present that’ll light up Mom’s face and warm her heart—not just…
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Your Electronic Goods Recycling Donations Become Bank Deposits
Used and broken electronics such as computers, cellphones, dvd players, washers and dryers still hold intrinsic value because if you were to peer inside these things you’d notice a lot of wire and circuitry. There is a surprisingly substantial amount of copper, silver and gold waiting for “the recycling”. Consumerism- the acquisition of goods, is…
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The Production And Distribution Of Organic Food
Interesting world wide organic food statistics.
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There Are New Forms Of Money On The Horizon
Take a look at these transactional trends to see how you might be spending your money in the future. What does the future hold for the way we pay? Paying for your purchases used to be to the most straightforward task around, you’d exchange your coins with the cashier and in return you’d receive your…
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How Technology Will Shape Teaching In The Future
In the past decade and a half cellphones have evolved from contraptions you make calls from to devices that do so much more. Now they can help you organize your social life, perform your banking and act as a food diary. There’s an app to be found that is based on your entire existence! With…
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11% Of Male Black Friday Shoppers Will Pull Items Out Of Hands Of Others
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a cultural phenom. One that American and (in the past few years) hard-boiled Canadian consumers look forward to each year. They brave the crowds, set out a savings mission plan and shop like a thrifty gladiator entering the battle arena of value. WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK FRIDAY/CYBER MONDAY… While…
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How We Set In Motion Coffee Global Business
If you are like me- someone who has drunk much more than one coffee in your life, you might be interested in pondering this question: Why do you think the multi-billion-dollar global coffee industry can be a losing business for the growers, whose hands till the land from where coffee starts? In fact, if you…
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Hospital Visits Becoming More Like Costly Airport Visits
From a technological point of view there is nothing wrong with the way our hospitals have changed over the past thirty years but what about from the viewpoint of a person? A real, honest to gosh person. The hospital calls these folks patients or family members/visitors, but I think they must have a secret name…
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The Best Inventions Of 2017
These are real inventions: self healing concrete…airport sleeping pods…DIY drones and that’s just for starters. So much incredible technology and cool imagination at work. Watch this video and tell us below which is your favorite by using our live video uplink from your smart device. [vidrack align=”center” ext_id=”345″ desc=”some description”]
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How To Start An eCommerce Business
More than half of the world’s population made an online eCommerce purchase in 2016, and these numbers are only expected to increase. This means establishing an online presence is more crucial than ever if you want to keep up with the competition, continue to expand your brand, and generate more annual revenue. Luckily, we are here…
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New Fashion Via Global Electronic Commerce Platform AliExpress
Based in Hangzou, China, AliExpress is a global e-commerce platform made up of small business sellers offering a wide variety of consumer products worldwide. This growing platform already has (at the time of this writing) over 3 million likes on Facebook. An impressive number that speaks to the desirability of products on hand. What makes…
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WatchBox App By Govberg Curates And Helps Source Watches
In 2016, consumers spent an estimated $14.3 USD billion on gifts for Father’s Day alone, not to mention billions more on gifts for other occasions like birthdays and winter holidays. Traditional “guy gifts” include things like power tools and sporting event tickets. However, if you’re looking for a quintessential men’s gift that’s truly timeless, then…
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Q And A With Self Made Millionaire And Luxury Sommelier Noel Shu
For the high end market, there are often many different brands of similar products and services vying for attention. What are some effective ways luxury consumers can stay abreast of the newest, highest quality products and services? This can actually be the done the good ol’ fashioned way and that’s simply to read a lot.…
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Art Of Painting With Camera Focus At Hurban Vortex Exhibit In Cannes
If you could choose just one photo exhibit to see all year, it would have to be Hurban Vortex in Cannes. Often, photography is the visual equivalent of telling a one-word story, expressed through an immediately comprehensible image. In contrast, Parisian photographer Boris Wilensky takes you on a journey through time, space, and humanity. His…
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eBay Canada Set Sights On Kijiji Shoppers With Test Integration Project
Back in 2017, eBay Canada and Kijiji Canada launched a test to bring increased visibility to Canadian eBay inventory: eBay listings for certain items located in Canada were integrated into search results on Kijiji – the #1 classifieds site in the country. Kijiji buyers were given the opportunity to connect with relevant eBay inventory, and…
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Emerging China Wine Market Impacts USA, Canada and Global Wine Markets
It’s no secret that luxury brands have thrived in China in recent years amid a population increasingly oriented toward high-end consumer goods like fashion, jewelry and automobiles—and the elevated social status such items confer. Today, the Chinese population is immersed in a new love affair: with grape-based wine! According to internationally-renowned sommelier, Noel Shu, China…
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Ontario Intro’s Online Alcohol Sales And Delivery Via LCBO.COM
Ontario is offering a new and convenient way to buy alcohol products by introducing online sales through LCBO.com. Starting today, LCBO consumers can buy online up to 5,000 different products from across Canada and 85 other countries. Customers can choose to have their order sent to an LCBO store of their choosing for pick up,…
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Absolutely Fabulous Infographic Celebrates Release Of Movie
The release of the new Absolutely Fabulous movie is set for this month, and here from our friends at The Rug Seller we’re really looking forward to it. Like Edina and Patsy, we appreciate the finer things in life – one of our newest collections for 2016 is the Christian Lacroix range, one of Eddy’s…
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Chinese Newspaper Baskets
Okay I admit it, newspapers are dead. But maybe in China they aren’t. Or are. Because in a local bargain shop I discovered a cache of wastebaskets in three different sizes made entirely out of newspapers: Chinese newspapers to be exact. And that started me thinking. It seems probable that in China, or somewhere near there, an active recycling…
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Why Ontarians Continue Having Trouble Paying For Electricity
[See Comments at the end of this article for updates Ed.] “All my pension goes to pay my electricity” – constituent. With Ontario boasting the highest energy prices in North America, quite honestly I don’t know how some people get by. When people bring their electricity bills into my office, it provides a line-by-line window…
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Money Buys Happiness If You Give It Away
North Americans are still choosing to hold onto their money these days, a lesson learned from the 2008-09 financial crash. It’s good to have savings – but not to the point of hoarding, says entrepreneur and philanthropist Tim McCarthy, author of “Empty Abundance”. Citizens in the United States of America are saving at a rate…
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CNNMoney- Millennials Saying No To Credit Cards
CNNMoney @CNNMoney 13h Millennials are saying no to credit cards: http://cnnmon.ie/1uFOSGl via @blakeellis3 pic.twitter.com/T1U8i7OU2I What some tweeters are saying: CalBeach @CalBeach 13h @CNNMoney @blakeellis3 They’re smart to avoid debt. YmeYnot @YmeYnot2011 13h @CNNMoney @blakeellis3 Only use charge card when you can pay entire debt completely before you are charged interest. NETGAINS @Netgains_ 13h @CNNMoney…
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Subliminal Advertising In McDonald’s Ad Ice Cubes
I was a bit confounded because at first, I couldn’t understand what was drawing me into the advertisement- then I remembered a well worn paperback book I have called Media Sexploitation by Wilson Bryan Key, sitting on a book shelf somewhere back home. That book is all about subliminal advertising and its photo section showing…
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Alice Cooper Names These Acts Rock And Roll Misfits
“Rock n roll is not about happy, happy, happy, everything’s okay” Alice Cooper. In this YouTube video, filmed last year – the icon himself explains that today’s generation of rock fans and rock industries are missing something. Perhaps it’s the lack of meat in their diet says Alice, as if this that prevents their ability to…
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How To Start Blogging With Plastic Deerheads And Ironic Moustaches
Blog writers are like Indie music that’s about to become “cool”, or rather, they are the people that enjoy the Indie music before it’s “cool”, in fact, they are most likely part of the reason it eventually becomes popular. Only it’s not just music. It’s everything. Lifestyle bloggers like EVERYTHING before it’s cool. Therefore, I,…
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Ontario government wants to strengthen rules for Debt Settlement Services
Ontario is taking steps to provide vulnerable consumers with protection against unfair business practices of some companies that offer debt settlement services. As part of the province’s continuing commitment to strengthen consumer protection, the Ontario government intends to introduce legislation that, if passed, would impose…