Politico Labor Day Highlights the Need for American RestructuringWall Street PitBy John Mason Sep 6, 2011, 11:04 AM Author's Website An instance is the United States Postal Service: we heard over the weekend that the Post Office faces the possibility of bankruptcy. The high profile cause of this situation: email. …
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Auctionbytes GSI Commerce: Nearly half of consumers prefer to shop online for clothingBizReportNo wonder then that recent research found almost half of UK adults now like to shop for fashion online rather than in-store. by Helen Leggatt eBay-owned GSI Commerce surveyed 2000 online adults in the UK about their online …
Read More »Branstad: Unemployment office closures were planned; post offices were not – DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
DesMoinesRegister.com (blog) Branstad: Unemployment office closures were planned; post offices were notDesMoinesRegister.com (blog)Today he addressed questions about why his actions – also done for cost-saving reasons – were appropriate while federal post office downsizing is not. “You have to deal with the budget realities and we accept that the postal …
Read More »Gingrich vows more pay checks than food stamps during Barrington stop – TribLocal
TribLocal Gingrich vows more pay checks than food stamps during Barrington stopTribLocalThe first ideal is to restore confidence in Americans, something that has been lost in past years under the current leadership, in which more citizens rely on food stamps, welfare and other government assistance than ever before, Gingrich said. …
Read More »Taco Bell And KFC Want Your Food Stamps – Gothamist
Gothamist Taco Bell And KFC Want Your Food StampsGothamistFood stamps are all the rage these days—one in five New Yorkers are on 'em, using stamps to pay for everything from Wonder bread to organic Japanese eggplant. So it makes sense that more businesses would want a piece of the food …
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BBC News Royal Mail pulls in £933k from auctioned itemsParcel2Go.comUndelivered post sold at auction helped Royal Mail bring in £933000 last year, according to figures obtained by the BBC. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the corporation discovered that the Royal Mail saw a 116 per cent increase over the …
Read More »Branstad: Unemployment office closures were planned; post offices were not – DesMoinesRegister.com
Branstad: Unemployment office closures were planned; post offices were notDesMoinesRegister.comToday he addressed questions about why his actions – also done for cost-saving reasons – were appropriate while federal post office downsizing is not. “You have to deal with the budget realities and we accept that the postal service needs to …
Read More »eBay Wraps Up Reusable Box Program, Prepares For Next Iteration – PC Magazine
eBay Wraps Up Reusable Box Program, Prepares For Next IterationPC MagazineOne year ago eBay debuted its Pilot Box program, which had sellers use reusable boxes made from recyclable materials for shipping goods. One year later and the pilot project is coming to a close, but the online retailer is looking …
Read More »If EMC Learns To Love All-Flash Arrays, Stock Goes To $37 – Forbes
If EMC Learns To Love All-Flash Arrays, Stock Goes To $37ForbesNimbus, an all-flash storage array supplier, outmaneuvered incumbents NetApp and 3PAR to close a deal with eBay for 100TB of flash storage to accelerate the firm's server virtualization work earlier this month. [1] Pure Storage, an enterprise storage …and more » …
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Food Stamp Use Drops for First Time Since 2008MainStreetNEW YORK (MainStreet) — The number of Americans relying on food stamps dropped by more than 200000 in June, marking the first month-over-month decline since October 2008, new government data shows. In total, 45183931 individuals …Food stamp use in US rises to …
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