Tag: consumers

  • An Evolution Of Canadian Shopping Consumers Distributing Style

    An Evolution Of Canadian Shopping Consumers Distributing Style

    As a technology writer for the Silo, I am always focusing and thinking about the evolution of technology. I write about how computers and video games have changed over the years, but of course, many other things change around us and the one I have been thinking about a lot lately is shopping. ( Consumers…

  • 7000 Words About The Refragmentation Of The Economy

    7000 Words About The Refragmentation Of The Economy

    One advantage of being old is that you can see change happen in your lifetime. A lot of the change I’ve seen is fragmentation. US politics is much more polarized than it used to be. Culturally we have ever less common ground. The creative class flocks to a handful of happy cities, abandoning the rest.…

  • No Cost Auto Coupon Button Applies Savings At Checkout For Online Shopping

    No Cost Auto Coupon Button Applies Savings At Checkout For Online Shopping

    I’d like to tell you about an easy shopping hack that moves coupon clipping into the 21st Century. Gumdrop by Goodshop is a new free browser button which automatically finds and applies the best coupons at checkout when you are shopping online at more than 30,000 retailers including Kohl’s, Toys R Us and Amazon. It…

  • Why Ontarians Continue Having Trouble Paying For Electricity

    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…