Retail News

After-Hour Coffee Drinker asked:


I’m finding that many people buy only the Sunday newspaper (for classified ads, grocery and retail ads, etc.), but never during the week.

conchita asked:


I mainly read my news online, so I don’t know about major newspapers, but I only noticed the California beef recall when it was on the yahoo most searched list. It should be on all major headlines!!! This is the food we EAT! Here is a portion of the FDA press release:
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2007 - United Food Group, LLC, a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 75,000 pounds of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. The problem was discovered through sampling done by the California Department of Health Services and the Colorado Department of Health, in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the course of an investigation into illnesses. The ground beef products were produced on April 20 and were shipped to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.

T-Bone asked:


I addition to improved conditions on the ground in Iraq. Now more bad news for the left comes out of wall street.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_bi_ge/holiday_shopping

According to ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets, total sales rose 8.3 percent to about $10.3 billion on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, compared with $9.5 billion on the same day a year ago. ShopperTrak had expected an increase of no more than 4 percent to 5 percent.

“This is a really strong number. … You can’t have a good season unless it starts well,” said Bill Martin, co-founder of ShopperTrak, citing strength across all regions. “It’s very encouraging.

Good economy, good news out of Iraq.

Can it get any worse for the doom and gloom, defeatest left?

Jake N asked:


I’m noticing an ever increasing amount of articles in the news lately where you read the title, and its like “omg, the world is ending” and then you read the article, and you’re like “wth? I don’t see what they were all hyped up about”. Why do they do this? What’s the point? Give me your insight.

Example: “Retail Sales Plunge”…It turns out that they droped by 0.6%…NOT EVEN 1%…BARELY HALF A PERCENT…what the crap?
Unfortunatly harry…you’re an idiot. I understand that market perfectly fine. For starters I own my own company (i’ll assume you have a job…at best). Second of all, The question wasn’t about the article regarding the market…the question was about the Upselling of the Title. The term “Plunge” doesn’t really coincide with the .6%. But atleast it gave you a chance to rant for a few minutes…enjoy your lunch break

NCSMALLBIZ.COM asked:


I’ve been putting together text message marketing campaigns for some of my clients around the Raleigh NC area. This text platform allows these businesses to market to their opt-in databases. I’ve got allot of restaurants, boutiques and retail shops who are doing it and I would love to help get the word out about their text campaigns. How do I go about proposing to the news paper to write about small businesses going mobile?