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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.

In this economy, cash-strapped consumers have become more budget conscious and less concerned about appearing cheap. As a result, better-known brands have steadily been losing ground to store-branded food products.

Since the start of the financial meltdown in 2008, coupon use has come back in vogue for many Americans. In 2009 shoppers used 27% more coupons than in 2008 and online coupon spiked 360%. Coupon use has become so pervasive that while many still think using a coupon on the first date is tacky, 41%...

When a recent Nielsen report published in the Boston Globe said sales of grocery chains' own discount brands had increased 8% since 2007, I thought the number was conservative. Who is going to sweat the negligible difference in packaging and quality -- if any -- when buying ketchup when the rent is...

The quickest way to end the honeymoon stage of your new life together is to get off on the wrong foot when it comes to your new financial life together. Unfortunately for all the effort that many churches and groups put into pre-marital counseling, many miss the mark when it comes to money. If you...