As retailers clamor for every last dollar they can convince customers to spend with them instead of competitors, the list of what stores are open on Thanksgiving doesn’t seem to shrink.
Some stores still close for Thanksgiving, though, including retailers in the same family as another chain that plans to open on Turkey Day. Walmart stores, for example, will open their doors on Thanksgiving, while Sam’s Club stores will remain closed until early on Black Friday.…
The and OfficeMax and Office Depot Black Friday sale includes a little something for everyone with a heavy concentration on – not surprisingly – tech products such as laptops and tablets.
Stores will remain remain open until 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day and will re-open Friday at 8 a.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. OfficeMax and Office Depot Black Friday online deals will be available all day on Thanksgiving, however.…
Staples released their Black Friday deals circular, and it pops with electronics deals sure to bring in crowds of eager buyers.
The ad features an ASUS laptop computer for $99.99 (limit one per customer). The laptop sports a 11.6″ display and 2 GB of RAM and runs Windows 8.1. It comes with a small (32 GB) flash hard drive, but includes 500 GB of ASUS cloud storage free for two years and 100 GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage for two years.…
Amazon has launched a new benefit for their Amazon Prime
Amazon calls the new service, launched this week, Prime Photos, and it enhances the 5 GB of free file storage already available to all Amazon customers.…
Can you believe it’s time to start thinking about Christmas gifts? Gift baskets are great options for kids, who love feeling like they received a bunch of presents rather than just one.
Gift baskets work especially well for kids you don’t see very often, such as far-flung nieces and nephews for whom you want to buy gifts, even though you don’t know their tastes or what they might already have.…
Redbox Instant is history
Forbes reported that Redbox Instant by Verizon shut down this past week after about a year and a half of operation. The service, majority owned by Verizon, couldn’t successfully compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Redbox Instant charged $8 a month after a free one-month trial for unlimited streaming of its movie and TV show selections plus four free rentals per month from Redbox’s ubiquitous kiosks.…
Having lost a lot of weight on the Dukan Diet last year, I was absolutely thrilled to be given the opportunity to interview the man behind the diet, Dr. Pierre Dukan. The author of “The Dukan Diet” recently released his new book, “The Dukan Diet Made Easy.”
A French medical doctor with over 40 years of experience in clinical nutrition, Dr.…
Facebook TOS allow tracking of other Web sites users visit
A Wall Street Journal analysis of the fine print of Facebook’s Terms of Service indicates that the social media behemoth permits itself to track users’ Web activity. By monitoring the other Web sites that you visit, Facebook can more accurately pinpoint which advertising would interest you.
Facebook tracks your Web browsing activity using a cookie, or small text file stored on your computer’s hard drive.…
I don’t have time to visit Trader Joe’s regularly since I can’t get all of my groceries there, so when I do go, it’s a special treat. An article I wrote last year about things to buy at Trader Joe’s continues to draw large numbers of readers, so I decided to write about some of the items I found on my recent trip to the store.…
RIP Google Authorship
Of interest to bloggers and other Web content writers, Search Engine Roundtable reported the official demise of Google Authorship. The company dropped author images from its search results awhile back, and this past week, dropped Authorship altogether, saying that it hadn’t proved as useful to their customers as they’d hoped. However, Author Rank remains, according to Search Engine Land.…