Where to Shop Other than Target or Best Buy?
Jason DeRusha brings up a good point about the challenge of making out locally headquartered big box stores feel some pain over their funding of the newly formed “independent expenditure campaign”, MNForward (which is using the money to run ads in support Tom Emmer). Target has been getting some national attention over this due to [...]
America’s Fitness in Amazon’s Watches
What does Amazon.com’s vast selection of watches tell us about America’s fitness: Twice as many sports fan watches to sports watches? Do Americans prefer to watch rather than participate in sports? Based on the best seller lists, it seems like this skews to the South, with many of Amazon’s best selling sports fan watches tying [...]
How to Buy Discount Gift Cards Online
Here’s a little tip on how you can buy gift cards to many popular online and offline retailers at a discount. 1. Go to Bing.com and join their Cashback program. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Bing, it’s the recently rebranded search engine owned by Microsoft. As a marketing deal, they’re running a [...]
Review: On Target: How the World’s Hottest Retailer Hit a Bull’s-Eye
I’ve started reading the 2003 book, On Target, which takes a glowing look at how Minnesota’s favorite big box chain retailer came to be what it is today. Clearly, a book with the subtitle, “How the World’s Hottest Retailer Hit a Bull’s-Eye” is going to present the company favorably at every opportunity. So far, the [...]
A Term I Like: Concious Consumption
I think Dan Stanek is onto something with the concept of “conscious consumption” trumping “conspicuous consumption” these days: What changes are you observing in consumer values? What I am seeing is the pendulum swinging away from the conspicuous consumption of the 1980’s and 1990’s and toward conscious consumption. And this is having a profound impact [...]
What’s Up with BSN No-Xplode Blue Raspberry?
This is currently the fastest growing product on Amazon’s Health & Personal Care category, jumping 96,707% from 50,340th to 52nd on Amazon’s H&PC rankings: What’s going on here? Check out an excerpt from the top customer review, which 11 out of 11 people have found helpful: My muscles felt so tight and big, that I [...]
Best Buy Outlet Price-Check
Best Buy RewardZone reminded me that they have an online outlet store. I decided to run some spot checks on their point and shoot digital camera prices vs Amazon’s. The first price listed is Best Buy’s and the 2nd is Amazon’s (both taken at the same time on March 31). – FinePix 6.3MP Digital Camera [...]
Anti Monkey Butt Powder
I’m not sure why the monkey on Anti Monkey Butt Powder is giving a thumbs up. He looks like he could have used some Anti Monkey Butt Powder and has the grimace of someone who forgot to liberally apply Anti Monkey Butt Powder to his monkey butt. This is available at the now-open East Lake [...]
New Crate & Barrel Update for Quinn
My brother-in-law Quinn likes to take yuppie shots at Carly and me. However, as of today, I think my new comeback will be, “at least we’re not like Elizabeth Dehn” who wrote the following for Minnesota Monthly: I finally made it out to the new Crate & Barrel at the Galleria. It’s been open for [...]
Craving a Bubba Keg
While renting a Ryder truck for our recent relo, I noticed this promotion on the wall: I don’t plan on moving again anytime soon so it may take a while to earn that Bubba Keg. If you’re moving anytime soon, see if you can get your truck rental applied toward my Bubba Keg account.
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