Sometimes saving pennies means more than cutting costs on expenses. Sometimes it needs us all to speak up about unfair pricing and business practices.
Price fixing is when competitors collude to fix prices at a level that sabotages the principles of a free market economy and it is illegal.
Where there is a free market, supply and [...]
Archive for September, 2008
I may be The Biggest Loser’s biggest fan. I get so involved in the lives of these strangers that every season I find it hard to decide who I want to win. In Season 5 it seemed that Mark had not only shed all that excess weight but all the stuffy padding that he had [...]
Waitrose, a British high street grocer, is calling for a return to traditional cuts of meat. Nowadays few shoppers will go in search of cheaper cuts like pigs trotters, pork hock, beef brisket, oxtail or shoulder of lamb.
Certainly the rich beefy flavour of Oxtail Soup is the perfect starter for cool autumn evenings and if [...]
Paypal Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Online
Okay, so it’s time to jump in and get your internet marketing toes wet and you’ve decided you’d like your own website. You need a domain and you need a host. How are you going to pay for them? And more importantly if you are selling your [...]
Given that the economy has gone to hell in a hand basket, I doubt many people are seriously considering buying a new car this year. There are great deals out there on used cars but it is easy to be sold a lemon. If you haven’t actually been in the market for a second hand [...]
I have no idea if that was Hetty Green’s mantra but if not, it should have been.
She was the richest woman in American history according to a list compiled by the American Heritage Magazine in 1998 and yet despite having more money than your average nation, Mrs Green was known to be more than [...]
