Starbucks Frees the Wi-Fi!

In what might be the first of my blog requests to actually come true, Starbucks has set its Wi-Fi free.
All you have to do is buy a reloadable Starbucks card and register it at Starbucks.com.  Voila…you get up to two hours of consecutive free Wi-Fi daily at Starbucks stores, via AT&T.  No catch (that I [...]

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Tell Me Something About Linens -N- Things…

They’re considering bankruptcy, right?  So how did they fail while Bed Bath & Beyond has not?  I mean that with all sincerity.  I really want to learn something from this: What does BB&B do right that Linens -N-Things does not?  Because I think they are very similar.
LnT posted $2.79 billion in sales last year, but [...]

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Support Record Store Day!

Tomorrow, Saturday the 19th of April, is Record Store Day.  Get off your butt, log off of iTunes, get out of the house, and go buy a record!  (Album, CD, whatever floats your boat.)  I hope the link is working by the time you click on it.  At the time I posted it wasn’t working worth a darn.
Here [...]

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Book Publishers are Competitors to Amazon?

Barely a footnote at the end of a Publishers Weekly column about market share for online retailers versus bricks-and-mortar booksellers was this:
“With Amazon’s growing power in book sales, it’s understandable that publishers may be a bit anxious on learning that in Amazon’s 10-k filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company lists among its [...]

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What Next for Circuit City, Blockbuster, Linens -N- Things?

You’re not buying enough bedding, kitchen utensils, or other household knickknacks, apparently, because Linens -N- Things is about to declare bankruptcy.  A restructuring firm has been hired already.  Go here to if you want to read a dull article full of lots of numbers and not enough straightforward talk about why this might be happening.
And Blockbuster [...]

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Watch Wal-Mart Pwn America

Just curious, but how does this video (demonstrating Wal-Mart store openings since the company’s birth) make you feel?

A) Neat-o. I like shiny things.
B) Proudly capitalistic
C) A tad alarmed
D) Flat-out nauseous
It’s pretty amazing, no matter how you feel about Wal-Mart. One thing’s for sure, they are the retail powerhouse.

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Vote for the Worst Company in America

Or is it vote AGAINST the worst company in America?  Always second-guessing myself with the whole grammar thing.
Voting is live at the Consumerist.  Speak up!  Be heard! Make a difference!
Or just vent.
The bracketed field of 64 companies is here.
(What is it about brackets that makes my heart race?)
The first available matchup on which you can [...]

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March is Dummies Month!

Do you know you’re not dumb, but feel frustrated nonetheless?
Craving some lightheartedness in your reference materials?
Been seeing a lot of yellow and black lately?
Having sudden urges to save $5?
Have no fear, Dummies Month is here. Whether your favorite book retailer be A1Books or Amazon, Powell’s or Softpro, or any of these other participants listed below, now’s [...]

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Name That Leader

I just read one of the most fascinating, disturbing articles I’ve ever read about a particular person of business fame.  I’ll say little more.  Instead, I’ve clipped from the article a big batch of quotes, facts, and opinions about this person.  Now, I only pulled the controversial, negative parts.  I didn’t make these up, and [...]

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Wal-Mart Buyers Blog! Honestly!

I just gained a brand new respect for Wal-Mart.  This New York Times article nearly knocked me out of my chair.
Wal-Mart buyers (aka merchants, aka merchandise managers) are openly blogging.  They are encouraged to do so.  They are blogging not only about their personal lives but about the products they choose for resale in Wal-Mart [...]

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