Archive for December, 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
6:00pm Friday 30th December 2011 in News THE handling of out-of-hours calls to Oxford City Council by a firm in Cheshire is to be examined by councillors early in the New Year. Astraline, based in Poynton, Cheshire, currently handles calls from people trying to contact the council outside of ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
The Times' Stephanie Clifford reports online retailers have become so hip to your sip-and-click habit that they've tailored their marketing strategies to reach the happiest (read: drunkest) consumers.This means as soon as you slip on your beer goggles and log onto Saks.com, your inbox is getting flooded with "deals" between ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
All information in the following reports comes from the Brookline Police incident log. Monday, Dec. 26 You looking at me? A caller said a possibly drunk man was trying to pick fights with passersby in front the Golden Temple restaurant on Beacon Street. Break-in : A St. ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office has released information on recent scams that target seniors and have resulted in thousands of dollars lost. Internet based check fraud An 86-year-old Dewey resident recently lost $6,000 after repeated calls from a man pretending to be her grandson asking for money. The "grandson" ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Companies like Dell , Zappos and QVC fell to the bottom of the heap of the top 25 Internet retailers' return services.For the first time, Mystery shopper network STELLAService enlisted shoppers to return products in the weeks leading up to the holidays and studied how long it took each retailer ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
KALISPELL- It's become a sort of national phenomenon this holiday season, complete strangers donating money to Kmart to pay off random people's layaway accounts.Earlier this week, we told you about a "mystery shopper" who donated more than $1,000 worth of presents for Kmart customers in Missoula and as reporter Laura ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
At Albrecht's Sentry Foods, a family-owned grocery store in Delafield, Wis. , cashier Jackie Ryerson says hardy customers are sometimes surprised when she asks, "Would you like help out to your car?"But Ms. Ryerson is required to ask all customers that question; also, whether they have coupons, a gasoline points ...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Retailers liken the day after Christmas to Black Friday. The massive return and refund day is set to get started Monday morning, with some retailers opening as early as 5:00am. From Christmas returns to shoppers using gift cards, to others looking for attractive day-after-Christmas sales, Huntsville's Parkway Place Mall was ...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
By Alan BlighThere is a new scam to keep us on our toes.The scam is called the Cash Back Scam and works like this: when a consumer goes to purchase their items at the cash register, the employee checking them out selects the "cash back" option without the consumer knowing. ...
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Monday, December 26th, 2011
Itwas a phone call Reid wasn't expecting. "Shegoes you need to call me right away, I have some good news about your layaway,and I had hung up the phone, [looked at] my husband, I said, 'honey I thinksomebody might have picked up our layaway,'" ...
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