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Here’s your chance to win a trip for two to Italy, including airfare, hotel and meals. Through February 19th, you can enter the Olive Garden Sweetheart Sweepstakes — Facebook required – for the chance to win the grand prize that includes both Rome and Florence. You can enter daily, including for the chance to [...]  Scam alert: If you get an email claiming to be from Intuit, publishers of Turbo Tax products, with the subject line “tax information needed within 30 days”, do not open the email. It is a fraud and/or a virus. I got one of those emails the other day from an address security@quickbooks.com, and knew [...] You may have to read this twice, because it’s complicated. The company known as Liz Claiborne is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific Companies to separate itself from the Liz Clairborne clothing brand, which the corporation sold to JC Penney, which now sells the Liz Clairborne brand exclusively. Got that? The [...] Happy New Year wishes from Starbucks come with a price increase. The chain is increasing prices by 10 cents or more in NYC, Washington, DC and the so-called Sun Belt, which includes Florida. For whatever reason, Starbucks is not increasing prices on all its coffee products or all its locations, just selected products and [...] Unlike the consumer uproar that erupted in the final weeks of 2011 when Verizon and Bank of America announced new customer service fees, TD Bank is quietly raising fees for a variety of bank services. Verizon, which got slammed for the decision to charge customers $2 to pay your bills online or on the [...] It took less than 48 hours for Verizon to cave in to decide not to charge customers a $2 ‘convenience fee’ for the convenience of paying phone bills on the phone or online. What were they thinking? It’s the second time in recent months that consumers have forced corporations to roll back new add-on [...] Verizon has announced plans to charge customers $2 to pay their monthly phone bill by phone or online, beginning January 15, 2012. The bad news bill is already getting buzz among tech websites like CNET, which already is speculating whether the new fee will cause a consumer backlash, like the one that hit Bank [...] This could be a battle of the goliaths on wheels. Megabus is suing to put BoltBus, its biggest competitor, out of business, or at least break it up into small pieces that would — effectively — make it disappear. There’s millions of dollars of shiny new busses and bus company profits at stake, along [...] We are barely done sorting through the Halloween candy haul the kids brought home, and already it’s time to start thinking about Black Friday and holiday shopping. Here are some shopping tips on making the best use of your time to save the most money, from the website BlackFriday2011 – Research: start your Black [...] Bank of America has been losing customers in droves since it announced it would start charging customers $5 a month to use their debit cards, and announced today it would scrub the new fees. Other big banks, including JPMorgan/Chase and Wells Fargo, chose not to follow BOA’s lead. Bank of America wound up looking [...] Priscilla of Boston is clearing out top designer wedding dresses at up to 70% off at its NYC salon today through Thursday, November 3, 2011. If you are in the market for an elegant, carefully made wedding gown, don’t wait, because after 65 years, Priscilla of Boston is going out of business on December [...] Arrow Electronics is moving its global headquarters from Long Island to Denver. That’s 550 jobs going west, from Melville, to the Denver suburb of Englewood. Normally, I would say stop buying Arrow Electronics products as a way of showing your displeasure with this bad bite into the Big Apple economy, but Arrow makes products [...] |
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