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We just had a $7.4 billion Black Friday

December 2, 2019

This just in from Associated Press:  This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, as fewer people hit the stores and shoppers rang up $7.4 billion in transactions from their phones, computers and tablets. That’s just behind the $7.9 billion haul of last year’s Cyber Monday, which holds the one-day record for online […]

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Early TBT: Grateful Act of Congress

November 27, 2019

This post originally ran on November 20, 2017 THE FOURTH THURSDAY of November is a legal holiday in the United States. Designated as a national day of thanks, it is named, appropriately enough, Thanksgiving. Observing Thanksgiving in autumn has been around since the early 17th century. An act of Congress signed on October 6, 1941 established […]

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Kroger blinked.

November 25, 2019

Well, that didn’t take long.  Your Visa credit card is once again welcome at Kroger-owned Food Co and Smith’s Food & Drug stores. Kroger, it seems, was the first to blink.  It was only in March of this year that Kroger announced that its 142 food stores and 108 fuel centers operating in seven states under the […]

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TBT: Making it digital while keeping it personal

November 21, 2019

*   *   * This is from my post on March, 2014. I think it’s still germane. *   *   * Making it digital while keeping it personal Your clients want digital, but with a personal touch. Remember the rhetoric about banking as a relationship business? It still is. Preserving it while going digital only […]

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It hasn’t been a great month for Libra (or for Mark Zuckerberg)

November 18, 2019

At least one astrology website says Libras are cooperative, diplomatic, gracious, fair-minded, and social. Like most zodiac descriptions, it’s broad enough so that just about anyone can say, “Yep, that’s me.”  But the other Libra—Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency—seems to be garnering a less positive image. Not that Facebook has given up hope. As of this writing, the Libra Association’s official Facebook page most […]

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