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John Rich

25 Apps to Save You Money - 0 views

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    The new financial app society?
Ivy Chang

Service uses gaming to reward consumers for saving money | Springwise - 1 views

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    saveup allows consumers to earn credits for making smart financial decisions
Rhiannon Apple

Retailers Encourage Shoppers to Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • More than half of the sales from Walmart.com are now picked up at Walmart stores, Mr. Anderson said.
  • Walmart says the majority of in-store purchases are made with cash or debit cards, and that about 15 percent are made with credit cards.
  • Walmart noticed that a different set of customers also found the service appealing. About 40 percent of the customers who paid with cash when ordering online ended up using noncash options, like a credit card or check, when they arrived at the store. They simply had not wanted to provide that financial information online.
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  • The service already accounts for 2 percent of Walmart.com’s sales.
  • Sears, which has long offered store pickup for items bought on the Web, added a drive-through service a few months ago that allows customers to return or exchange purchases without leaving their cars.
  • He said that the online orders for in-store pickup also tended to be much larger than typical in-store purchases, and that customers who picked up orders in the store visited about 50 percent more often than customers who shopped only in the stores.
  • That follows the company’s decision three years ago to combine its online and offline inventories, so that if nordstrom.com was sold out of a size 8 Nicole Miller shift but a store in Los Angeles had the item in stock, the store would ship the item to the e-commerce customer.
  • further toward the “showroom” model — carrying lots of products for shoppers to see and test, but asking customers to buy the merchandise via the stores’ Web sites or apps.
  • “You will definitely start to see online-only players open stores,” she said.
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