By Rhod Mackenzie The priciest gas for households in Europe this year can be found in the Netherlands and Sweden, while the most cost-effective options are in Belarus and Russia. This information pertains to calculations based on data from national statistical services. In the first half of this year, Dutch households were charged 24 (euro) […]
Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by, Hakeem Jeffries, Amy Klobuchar, & Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks in a park in Berryville, Va., July 24, 2017, where they unveiled the Democrats new agenda. (AP/Cliff Owen)
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The hamburger is at least a hundred years old, possibly much more depending on who you believe. It’s a simple sandwich, a ground beef patty between two pieces of bread, plus a slice of cheese if you’re lucky. It doesn’t seem like a product that has room for much improvement, and yet, year after year, hamburgers keep on getting better. How is this possible? How can something with so little complexity continue to get tastier and tastier, year after year?
I have clothing for all occasions, from weddings to lounging with friends. Turns out I'm not alone: the apparent market has grown 60% in the last six years, and that trend isn't slowing down. To understand how and why this is happening, we need to enter the world of fast fashion, where tech-driven clothes are cheap and trend-heavy outfits are king.
Amazon's offer to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion sounds pretty great to both parties, but it seems that isn't good enough. The proposal has a lot of people worried about Amazon becoming an indestructible monopoly, and the government is all too happy to step in and settle the issue. But this concern ignores consumers' own preferences as well as business and entrepreneurial history. This week in Words and Numbers, Antony Davies and James R.
Many people believe that grocery stores keep milk in the back to force people to walk past a chunk of real estate they might otherwise ignore if the milk were near the front. I have a different explanation.
People speak about great innovations. Internal combustion. Moving pictures. Sound recordings. The microchip. Fracking. These are all amazing. But let us not forget about the small innovations that require as much creativity, inspiration, and also serve humanity in our daily lives.
Amazon’s increase in market value from less than $500 million to more than $450 billion might be the most remarkable example of wealth creation and business success that has ever taken place in the history of the world. There's a reason that Amazon has been so successful: They treat their customers like royalty.
When attempting to pinpoint what exactly a customer is, the main defining characteristic lies in recognizing whether or not the individual in question has the right to say, "No thanks, I'll be shopping elsewhere."
When a consumer buys a plane ticket through a private airline, they, unfortunately, do not have the luxury of also choosing to utilize a private security firm in the airport prior to boarding their aircraft.
"Take Jason Greenslate, the 28-year-old resident of San Diego, whom Fox News profiled in 2013. Video clips, which went viral, showed Greenslate buying sushi and lobster with a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program debit card issued by the government."
