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As the competition between home improvement heavyweights Lowe's and Home Depot intensifies, customer service is emerging as one of the key features on which they will need to innovate. Lowe's latest attempt is a new incentive program for customers paying with the store's credit card.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Friday (last updated at 8:09 a.m. Eastern time): Economic Reports Affirm Slowing: Data released Thursday raised further questions about the robustness of the economic recovery, sending stocks lower on Wall Street. The...

Cooking in my mother's kitchen can sometimes be a chore: She and I just don't think the same way when it comes to food, despite the many years I spent as a student under her tutelage. As a child of the Great Depression, she represents the commitment to thrift mixed with an often-blind love for the...

Whether it be a shelf, a cupboard or a complete closet or room, your pantry can be a scary place. It's that place in my life where $6.00 bottles of some celebrity Chef's spice blend gets eaten up like Pac-Man eats dots. It's the same place that swallows simple jars of paprika and garlic powder,...

Gold medal favorite, American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn may be a little ways away from home in Vancouver, B.C., and far away from the storied mountains of Austria, but it was to an Austrian home remedy that she turned when her shin began giving her "excruciating pain." At first, Vonn said she was...

As real estate begins to rise from the depths of the recession, is it time to dust off those remodeling plans? WalletPop asked two experts for tips on low-cost ways to make your home sparkle in 2010 without digging too deeply into what remains of your savings. Jennifer Gilmer, a kitchen and bath...

Homeowners still aren't ready to go whole-hog on their bath and kitchen renovations, but they're taking on slightly larger projects than they were earlier this year, according to executives at Lowe's Cos. (LOW), which reported that its third-quarter profit met expectations. The nation's...

More Black Friday ads have surfaced, this time for Kohl's and Staples, showing additional deals to be had on clothing and technology. The Kohl's Black Friday ad weighs in at more than 60 pages of deals and Staples' doorbuster deals include some good computer deals and plenty of digital...

While browsing in the housewares section of my local Walmart recently, a few things caught my eye, not because they were unique but because I had seen the same things at the dollar store. I realized that just buying one each of the five items mentioned below, one could save $12.91, and much more if...

After reading on WalletPop this week that Kraft jacked up the prices of its mac & cheese despite a 10% first-quarter profit increase, it got me thinking: What do I have in my pantry that shows a culinary belt-tightening? My days of splurging on exotic salts and hand-crafted butter are over,...