Seven days later, the BMW dealership where the couple was shopping for a new car sent an email apologizing, calling it a misunderstanding.
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The idea is to use a team of volunteers to develop a crowdsourced website for responsible shopping, where user-generated information about corporate social and environmental behavior is reviewed by peers and organized into simple scores.
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The idea of providing an all-day experience comes from the U.S., where it isn't unusual for shopping centers to include doctor and dentist offices as well as food halls and entertainment options to complement the usual range of clothing and other retail stores.
Focusing on those markets should help Wal-Mart get past the mistakes that forced it to fold its tent in South Korea, where poor real estate choices gave it bad locations, and in Germany, where it misread the local norms for shopping hours and labor laws.
The place where there is perhaps the highest potential for innovation is in the apparel industry, where the barriers to online shopping tend to be particularly high.
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Ralph Rosenberg, head of the real-estate group, has a preference for shopping beyond major metro areas where prices have been getting quite high.
Such passes for refreshing normalcy in a country where shopping--with its rummaging through the wares and socializing while trying on the clothes--has long been a national pastime.
Guttentag lays it all out for consumers on his Web site, The Mortgage Professor, where he has just launched a reverse mortgage shopping service that walks consumers through the different options for extracting money from their home with a reverse mortgage.
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Choosing the safest auto available is particularly important when shopping for a small car, where every advantage is essential.
First, if you're shopping for real estate far from where you're living, try scouring the local listings for rental properties in your price range.
When she left the supermarket, Hilda was waiting for her, where the positive neon universe of shopping bordered on the smudged antimatter outside, cars plashing out of the car park through the wet.
Outlet centers provide a one-stop shop that offers great brands at a value price, in one location, in contrast to shopping online where consumers have to search for deals for their favorite brands individually.
The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005 expanded federal jurisdiction over class-action lawsuits primarily to reduce so-called "forum shopping, " where plaintiffs would look for the locale friendliest to class-action cases and then file in courts there.
The ad features a family gathering where a boring, weird aunt or cousin drones on about shopping for cat food.
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Best Buy has been growing bigger by opening up large stores where people would browse for new appliances and electronic gadgets but end up shopping elsewhere, on line.
The only exceptions are cases where cookies are essential for the provision of a service (as in an online shopping basket).
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Some people, such as myself, love the health-shopping aspect to it, where you can sock away extra money for future years by chiseling your providers.
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Shopping malls could be a viable alternative for Costco in urban markets where land is scarce and expensive.
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But when shopping for a special occasion, she says, she heads to a boutique nearby where she looks for pieces from Tibi or Rebecca Taylor.
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There was a period of life, when he was around three or four, where he had his Batman cape and he wore it everywhere for a year, church, pre-school and shopping.
Additionally, there are industry organizations, such as the Mystery Shopping Providers Association, National Association for Retail Marketing Services, and International Association of Service Evaluators, where shoppers can view directories of member companies.
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