16 June 2016 | |
San Fransisco, California, goes way beyond iconic. With its zigzagging Lombard Street, Painted Ladies and Golden Gate Bridge, "The City by the Bay" hosts well over 150,000 visitors each day. That's nearly 55 million over the course of a year. Meanwhile, it ranks among the most expensive cities in...
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Back-to-school sales bring some of the most anticipated shopping deals of the year. And luckily for you, many state governments continue to support retailers and consumers by offering sales tax holidays. State sales taxes can add over 9% to the price of things you buy, so seizing the opportunity...
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Everybody secretly loves candy and June is, apparently, National Candy Month. Although for kids every month is a candy month, during June candy gets special consideration, maybe to tide over our national sweet tooth until Halloween. No matter what the month, Americans consume a lot of candy. The...
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If you've ever overspent with your debit card, you may have been taken aback by the stinging penalty fees your bank collects. According to the Washington Post, the biggest U.S. banks have recently been tapeworming huge increases in overdraft revenues. Wells Fargo led the parade, collecting 14...
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Augmented reality is not science fiction anymore, and like just about every technological innovation in this day and age, it's being driven by retail. Visa is moving forward with a smartphone app which it premiered at A major London fashion show in collaboration with quirky clothing designer...
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Neither Visa nor MasterCard have a complete monopoly on the credit card market, but that might not be stopping them from using their power over consumers' wallets to fix transaction fees and from influencing cardholder behavior to their advantage. In a renewal of a long-simmering feud, giant...
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