pricing
| 8:30AM 7/22/2011
Shopping at the grocery store isn't always a walk in the park. You're bombarded with offers that seem to be a bargain -- but could just be a bust.
As an example, let's look at two end-of-aisle advertised specials on sale at two different grocery stores. For the sake of argument, let's say you have...
| 12:27PM 1/25/2011
The government recouped a staggering $4 billion in fiscal 2010 that was stolen from federal health care programs, the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced Monday -- the highest annual amount ever. More than half of the fraud money recovered came from drug companies.
| 7:36AM 11/13/2010
There is already $60 billion worth of orders for the GM IPO. The tremendous demand indicates that the pricing on the IPO was set too low.
| 10:00AM 9/14/2010
Thanks to websites like eBay and Craigslist, it's easy to find a place to sell your used items. But finding the right price to sell your used iPod Touch for, or finding the right price to buy one for is still a tough task. For used cars, consumers have been able to go to Kelly's Blue Book to find...
| 8:19PM 8/16/2010
Cotton prices are nearing 15-year highs. Last week the price per bale for December delivery hit $85 -- up from $75 last month. High prices are good news for farmers, but it may mean consumers will pay more for T-shirts and jeans.
| 12:55PM 2/01/2010
Macmillan, one of publishing's Big Six, has become the first company to fight Amazon's pricing of e-books. Amazon lost this battle, but it's going to be a long and costly war, with other publishers and with Apple, which unveiled its iPad last week.
| 1:15PM 1/20/2010
Big publishers are in talks with Apple on how to make e-books available for the forthcoming Tablet. They may be pushing towards a new pricing model, one which Amazon has a vested interest in combating with an attractive new royalty rate for would-be e-authors.
| 3:15PM 12/07/2009
If you carry a cell phone, you also have a calculator. Pretty much every mobile phone on the market has one, so you have no excuse not to do some intelligent per-unit math while you're out shopping.
Companies love that their customers assume economy of scale, and they want you to assume that...
| 4:30PM 10/04/2009
NEW YORK (Oct. 4) - There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale.
The Great Recession has caused massive job losses and hardship for millions, but it has also fostered a shoppers' paradise. Anyone who still has the means to spend can find unheard-of deals.
Prices on...
| 11:00AM 5/07/2009
During the heady days of the real estate bubble, brokers were shy about advertising properties as "reduced". But now that the market has tanked and everyone is looking for a bargain, it's different. Agents proudly hang "reduced" signs on properties and MLS listings regularly contain phrases like...