Dec

18

Pepsi passes on Super Bowl ads

December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Pepsi, one of the big name companies that always has Super Bowl ads, will not advertise in next year's Super Bowl for the first time in 23 years. The move is seen as a significant shift in strategy for the beverage company, but maybe it has something to do with the economy as well. The [...]

Dec

17

McDonalds to have free Wi-Fi

December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Not satisfied solely with creating obese citizens and keeping doctors rich, McDonald’s will now be offering free Wi-Fi hotspots soon. So you won’t have to pay for it starting in January. Obviously they are hoping that McDonalds becomes your new favorite place to surf the web and that you buy something while you are there. [...]

Dec

11

Shoplifting on the rise

December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

When times get tough, people start shoplifting more. And retailers are hiring fewer workers, so it's harder to catch them. Most big sellers hire more workers to manage the crowds of gift shoppers during the weeks leading up to Christmas, but last year, retailers cut holiday hiring by 62%. So store theft increased for the [...]

Dec

10

Tiger Woods ads vanish from TV

December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that things are not going so great for Tiger Woods right now. According Nielsen, the last time a commercial featuring Tiger Woods appeared on TV was Nov. 29. That was a 30-second Gillette ad that aired during NBC's "Football Night in America,". It aired a few [...]

Dec

4

FedEx to raise Ground, Home Delivery rates

December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Is there anything in this economy that isn't costing us more? The latest price hike comes from FedEx, which will raise shipping rates for its Ground and Home Delivery packages by an average of 4.9% in 2010. That's 1 percentage point less than this year's rate hike.Granted, that isn't a lot, but it's still higher. [...]

Dec

3

$123.5 million in tax refunds unclaimed

December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment

$1,148 is nothing to sneeze at for the average American. But that's the average amount of tax refund checks that were returned in 2009 to the Internal Revenue Service because they were undeliverable. Maybe you moved and never gave the IRS your new address. Maybe it had the wrong address on it.  Some of that [...]