They are buying things for 10 years' worth of profits.
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Fake reviews are bad and discourage people from buying things!
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He also cautions against buying things simply because they're discounted.
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We're not buying things on the secondary market for resale.
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"In this volatility people stopped buying things," Mr. Kosaryan said.
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Buying things in a sale is, after all, a choice.
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" He observed, "they are lowering the transaction cost for buying things.
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As we're buying things, we might consider where they were produced.
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But "there were a lot of people buying things," she said.
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Notably, it's not as if people stopped buying things through Amazon.
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That there should be ... I think they're buying things right now.
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The fingerprint sensor is also useful for buying things with Android Pay.
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You make the big money buying things no one else will buy.
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What if you stopped buying things for yourself for a whole year?
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I don't know, but buying things always makes a good American feel better.
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"I was buying things that I've bought for my own son," Wood said.
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In almost every scenario, I prefer shopping online to buying things in person.
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But when it comes to helpful bots that assist people in buying things?
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We're buying things through payment systems and those payment systems are a chokepoint.
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Buying things with the sound of your voice is just easier, he said.
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Maybe in the future, instead of buying things outright, customers will rent them.
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"Collaboration happens, with collectors buying things together and sharing them," Ms. Brodbeck said.
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Preparing for a second baby doesn't always mean buying things for the baby.
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Rich, out-of-touch white guy buying things with money that's not his.
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We basically got a free flight by buying things we would have bought anyway.
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A lot of times the high cost comes in when you're buying things packaged.
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So these integrated companies have been buying things recently to round out their portfolios.
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"They need to learn how to live not buying things on credit," he said.
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I understand that buying things is the backbone of the economy and job growth.
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But so many consumers are buying things because of what they see on Instagram.
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I have a bad habit of buying things as a way to displace internal turmoil.
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While research finds that buying things leads to unhappiness, spending on experiences increases their contentedness.
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Stop buying things you think you need, and save all your money to collect experiences.
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As do videos about purging your closet, buying guides, and guides to avoiding buying things.
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And it highly appeals to groups of people who have money and love buying things.
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"You have to be cautious when you're buying things because prices are high," Rubenstein said.
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But when it comes to buying things, you'll have to go to the company's website.
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And that's why you hear a lot about Russian oligarchs buying things in the West.
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When the recession hit in November 2008, people stopped buying things altogether, Mr. Getchell said.
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But while buying things on the internet has always been easy, it hasn't always been trustworthy.
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What we're trying to do is introduce a third option, a new way of buying things.
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The swimsuit is adorable, and I usually hate buying things online without trying them on first.
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Shoppers are getting more comfortable with buying things from their smartphones, skipping trips to the mall.
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It's like an online dollar store for buying things from online merchants in places like China.
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But that's led to people buying things just to try something out and return it later.
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Selling and buying things, following brands, looking up your childhood friends, and inviting people to parties.
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"We are waiting until after Christmas to know the gender to go crazy buying things," says Tori.
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"We are waiting until after Christmas to know the gender to go crazy buying things," Tori added.
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They don't want to be left behind when everyone starts buying things on their mobile phone. Yeah.
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Increased excitement around buying things is especially important this year because sneaker sales were down in February.
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Perhaps you will use spending money and buying things as a cheap way of avoiding self-awareness.
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With its tool, Amazon hopes to show advertisers that people end up buying things from Amazon instead.
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If they're buying things the smart way, they might have been paying attention to your money lessons.
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Of course, as we know now, there were missteps on the way to regularly buying things online.
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Of course, but it's a lot less than what we all waste buying things we don't need.
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"Serious investing consists of buying things because the price is attractive relative to intrinsic value," he wrote.
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Not buying things has freed me to have more time, space and energy for relationships with others.
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I mean, Amazon is this gigantic platform now that has made buying things extremely convenient and easy.
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All right, we will go back to Amazon in a minute, but the media companies buying things.
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Rather than consuming and buying things you don't need, donate your time to a nearby homeless shelter.
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Speaking of buying things and books, walk through how you go about marketing a book in 225.
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" She added, "It's not just about buying things, they want you to have an experience with their brand.
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Ads often use long and unique tracking codes to identify a user visiting various sites and buying things.
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It's immensely helped me in the sense that I'm not buying things and don't have to go without.
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You might like the information Amazon has to target people who are buying things like grout and hammers.
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In the documentary, Dawson pointed out that Paul's been accused of brainwashing his young viewers into buying things.
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Not wanting to get out much, her focus has instead been on buying things online for the baby.
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We should just be buying things that already exist as oppose to trying to mass produce everything new.
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"We are waiting until after Christmas to know the gender to go crazy buying things," Tori told PEOPLE.
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I definitely felt a weight had been lifted off, but I found it difficult to justify buying things.
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"A Chapter 13 shows people how to live without buying things for that 60-month plan," he said.
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The audience that understood those references were never shopping and buying things in the streetwear sort of vibe.
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If they go out at that number, they better start buying things that actually fill in the blanks.
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It's part of a larger surge in "panic-buying" things like hand sanitizer, nutrition bars, and oat milk.
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The investor pitch from Amazon and Google is simple: Soon, we'll all be buying things with our voices.
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There's nothing wrong with buying things from foreigners — provided you're not buying essential stuff from unstable trading partners.
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While the Fire Phone was great for buying things on Amazon, it was awful at being a smartphone.
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It translates into a whole lot of people buying things on Etsy without understanding exactly what Etsy is.
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I know there is a vast difference between not buying things and not being able to buy things.
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I started buying things that I didn't like, but bought them anyway because the chart was going up.
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Investments need to be made in websites and mobile apps because that's where more shoppers are buying things today.
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In fact, I want them to stop saying so much about it, because they want to keep buying things.
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Better credit card management boils down to making payments on time and not buying things you otherwise can't afford.
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What's the only thing better than going on shopping spree to Sephora and buying things you definitely don't need?
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In reality, buying things with nine cents at the end will leave one with plenty of pennies in America.
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My mother used to make fun of people for buying things, as if people who went shopping were criminals.
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Given how many people and companies use Facebook apps, buying things and sending money around should be pretty easy.Security.
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Buying things on sale may seem like a responsible thing to do, but it is a road to ruin.
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"As the money kept rolling in, they started buying things, but they had a safety net first," she said.
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But, at this point, I was actually buying things like foundation and concealer to add to my makeup arsenal.
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She is an example of "dark patterns," ways that websites manipulate you into buying things you may not want.
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They're for Instagram or Facebook; they're for WhatsApp, or for buying things on Amazon, or for checking your Gmail.
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Another explanation: Humans tend to continue buying things that keep going up in value, creating bubbles that eventually burst.
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Stop buying things to impress other peopleKeeping up with the "Joneses" is not only financially straining — it&aposs impossible.
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More millennials are spending money on travel experiences over buying things, and research shows these experiences bring more happiness.
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Money can make me happy if I focus on buying things that generate the same positive experience over and over.
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Part of Prime Day's fun comes from buying things that you didn't expect to buy and maybe didn't budget for.
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Also, start out small when dipping into the market and "make sure you are buying things you understand," said Cheng.
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Few problems are as much of a headache for the modern corporate worker as buying things on the company's dime.
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I started off just buying things that I loved, not paying as much attention to whether I was making profit.
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A shift in consumer behavior to buying things online could accelerate the retail apocalypse and reshape the way Americans shop.
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Many of these men are usually in the news for buying things in the West -- sports teams and real estate.
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" Jenner said she would often end up buying things she'd never use: "During the summer, there'll be a fabulous surfboard.
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People need to be buying things in order for the economy to grow and it seems like we're lacking on that.
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"I was buying things that I've bought my for my own son," says Wood, who has a 5-year-old son.
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All this can start driving the cost to the customers further down, and convince them to continue buying things through Instacart.
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We will see touch identification and Tinder-like user interfaces to make buying things more easy and most interactions increasingly frictionless.
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"More and more people are having a spiritual pursuit of sentiment and buying things that carry temperature and emotion," Tian said.
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We love beauty hacks that require something we already have lying around the house, because buying things is the actual worst.
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"I like to invest my money in different things, rather than buying things for the moment," he told Complex in 2014.
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He found that the market is increasingly buying protection against inflation, buying things such as gold and Treasury inflation-protected Securities.
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Good credit card management boils down to making payments on time and not buying things you otherwise can't afford, he said.
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The global economy revolves around two foundational forces — China's unsurpassed capacity to make things, and Americans' insatiable appetite for buying things.
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Buying things in packages often restricts you to buying more than you need, and that can be a big money waste.
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The report also details how retailers trick people into buying things or signing up for marketing emails by using deceptive language.
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He was allegedly buying things to help protect him from the elements while he lived off the radar camping, Fitzpatrick tells PEOPLE.
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Of course, Home is still a Google product, so instead of buying things through Amazon Prime, orders go through Google Express instead.
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There's just kind of criminal activity, buying things that are ... KS: Which is not a business you really want to get into.
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And, as one historian put it, regularly "she indulged in her orgies of buying things," like some kind of Victorian Imelda Marcos.
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But for the most part, fashion week doesn't seem to be succeeding in its primary function: getting people excited about buying things.
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Third, there are other issues when it comes to children buying things from your fridge, browsing the web without your consent, etc.
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"We will enrich it with partnerships with other companies like Amazon for buying things or for displaying information about monuments," Ayme said.
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There's also something comforting about buying things and knowing you can pay off your credit card at the end of the month.
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Aside from Gen Z — a group that includes actual teens — most of the respondents seemed focused on buying things for their children.
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" She'd prefer buying things that are meaningful, "and not because I feel like I'm being told I need it, from social media.
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Getting to net zero would require small personal shifts, too, Mr. Kazaglis said, like buying things that last longer and flying less.
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I think those services are trying to get people to constantly be buying things, but my philosophy is about fewer, better things.
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The rise of mobile payments has made buying things with your fingerprint commonplace, so why not put that technology in a credit card?
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There's also the well-worn trick of buying things that look like purchases, but are really transfers, like dollar coins or money orders.
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They have a long history of duping people into buying things that aren't as good as they seem using the mirage of luxury.
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Having payment info on file is what makes buying things through Snapchat easier than the web and draws brands to use Snapchat storefronts.
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That limits your angel to only buying things offered at one of those store, although Toys"R"Us is one of those stores.
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"In a world like the one described above, perhaps the most reliable solution lies in buying things with durable cash flows," he said.
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And rather than buying things immediately, Palmer suggests putting things in your basket to save and then revisit in a day or two.
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Dubious reasoning aside, if Amazon is able to make the method a reality, buying things could get a lot more interesting (and hilarious).
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The group is concerned that CGI characters like Miquela, Bermuda, and Blawko are being used to manipulate a young audience into buying things.
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I'm not buying any new clothing or accessories this year but thrifting and buying things that are handmade are on my "approved" list.
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The trend has been growing for nearly a decade, as more and more people seek diversions in experiences rather than in buying things.
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The problem: They keep buying things for me and my kids (groceries, toys, clothes, etc.) and refuse to let me pay for anything.
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"It really felt like a different time in terms of how we related to stuff and images and buying things," Ms. Latta said.
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But if they are buying things inside games on the Facebook website on a computer, there is no direct tool to prevent payments.
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Speaking of Hello, I am pleased to see Microsoft extending the face-recognition beyond login to, for instance, buying things in the app store.
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"It's kind of consistent with Buffett's pattern of buying things that are out of favor, undervalued and have a big customer base," Edmonds said.
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I know that sounds crazy (because I love buying things for myself!), but apparently being a kind and generous person actually makes you happier.
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The company's Echo home assistant, powered by Alexa, lets people shop by voice, looking for discounts or buying things again from a prior order.
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From a financial perspective, splurging where you spend the bulk of your time saves more money than buying things that seem the most fun.
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We're basically a consumer-facing company, over 53 million consumers on our platform buying things, but most of those consumers are inside China. Yep.
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For some reason, unlike making casual purchases from a British brand, buying things off of Taobao could set off alarm bells ringing for your bank.
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My friend was telling me like, the day before, for Valentine's Day, she was at the dollar store buying things with him as her cashier.
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Jaime decides to get circumcised, Ilana realizes that buying things won't fix her heart, and Abbi concludes that maybe she isn't only one type of person.
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"Both empirical studies and theoretical models suggest that mandatory hidden fees cause, or even trick, people into buying things they would not otherwise," the report states.
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He points out that these screens are mostly just a stand-in for buying things very cheap, often with washed-out investor sentiment as a bonus.
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Should people with a limited disposable income really be expected to pay more for pieces just to avoid buying things that are bad for the planet?
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More quantitative easing might help to keep asset prices high but buying things to encourage investment and spending has not been a complete success thus far.
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Over the past few years, boxes have slowly decreased in popularity, and judging by this, one can assume customers are getting used to buying things digitally.
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Thus, taxing income discourages people from working, taxing savings discourages people from saving, and taxing consumption discourages people from buying things, which other people have made.
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The key to buying things that will make us happy on Amazon Prime Day is focusing on what will enhance our experiences, social relationships, and lives.
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Next week is Thanksgiving, and then right after, a bunch of stuff will go on sale, in a transparent and even celebrated ritual of buying things.
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Don't get caught up in the rush of the "sale" or let the sensation of mindlessly clicking fool you into buying things you don't need or want.
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Users could make purchases while playing, buying things like protective gear and weapons as they move through different stages in the game, according to local media reports.
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For PayPal, it will give users one more easy option for using its rails when buying things, and that will translate into more transaction revenues for PayPal.
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It lets you register a debit or credit card as part of a profile, set up a security pin, then start buying things without ever leaving Instagram.
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While you can score big deals around the holidays, one of the biggest mistakes consumers make is buying things they don't need just because they're on sale.
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"So many people are looking for an experience when they shop — not just buying things," Funko (FNKO) CEO Brian Mariotti told CNN Business in an exclusive interview.
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That is to say, she understands there is nothing but shopping—unlike our brother Paul, or our sister Lisa, whose disinterest in buying things is downright masculine.
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Whitney: I follow a lot of designers across different fields because even though I'm not buying things, it's all different forms of art and motivations and backgrounds.
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" Adds the star, "When you're pregnant, you get so overwhelmed buying things you think you'll need, but in reality, you're just not going to use all of it.
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Instead they rely for their revenue on players buying things for use in the game, such as new characters to play with or costumes to put them in.
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In the ten years I've been covering Apple, these types of stories have persisted (Harry McCracken wrote a great history of Apple not buying things back in 2011).
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This is going to patients who have more capacity to pay, and often people in the West are buying things online that aren't really for life-saving purposes.
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Cleveland has prepared for the event by buying things like new body armor and batons for police, which it can afford thanks to a $50 million federal grant.
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While I'm far from truly being "zero-waste," shopping this way for even a month has completely changed the way I think about buying things in a store.
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Created as a shopping holiday for young, unmarried Chinese people to "celebrate" their singledom by buying things for themselves, Singles Day has become the world's biggest shopping event.
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They're going out and buying things, sometimes even hoarding things for their home, but they don't understand, I think, fundamentally, what is happening with this virus right now.
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In recent years, China's economy has shifted to one that is much more dependent on domestic household consumption — ordinary Chinese people buying things for themselves and their families.
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This obscure trade deal has become the quiet conduit for an explosion in a new and underexamined American consumer behavior: buying things directly from their countries of manufacture.
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Some of the best ways to earn more points include joining a dining rewards program, referring friends, and buying things online through your credit card&aposs shopping portal.
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"I'm a big fan of not buying things we don't need," said Lynn Ballou, a certified financial planner and "ambassador" for the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards.
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I may not be a master at buying things before it's too late, but I do consider myself to be a pro at clicking "next page" until 2 a.m.
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The only thing you really miss out on with this cheaper model is Touch ID for logging in and buying things from iTunes, the App Store, and the web.
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"When I was building my company I had to make a lot of sacrifices that my friends didn't need to make, like taking vacations or buying things," Cataldo explained.
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I get that it's a business and it's also an event centered around buying things and being advertised at but it used to feel like there was more energy.
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The eclipse starts at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT. As a result, a lot of Americans are traveling to watch the eclipse and buying things like eclipse glasses.
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That boils down to paying your balance on time and in full every month to avoid late fees and interest charges and not buying things you otherwise can't afford.
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What he was doing was putting on the trust document that he was buying things like a bed for her and he was buying fancy artwork for his house.
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Soon our first entry point for buying things, ordering things, customer service, is likely to be an IM platform with companies bolting into the back end of the messaging experience.
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What better way to simplify life than to distance ourselves from the part of capitalism that ties us to it most of all: the protracted act of physically buying things?
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Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to avoid falling for one of these grifts: Stop buying things you find at the bottom of a rabbit hole online.
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Even billionaire Mark Cuban says that buying things you need while they're on sale is one of the best ways to save money and get a positive return on investment.
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Shoppers like it because they can earn rewards for buying things — such as 20% off or a free coffee — and retailers like it because they can get valuable marketing insights.
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So there's a way in which buying "natural" outsources agency to nature, and if you're buying things that are created by nature, it can't be your fault if they're bad.
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Sakraida also says that typically shoppers end up buying things they don't need or actually want because they're surprised to find such good deals and this can result in overspending, unsurprisingly.
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I've learned from my younger years when I used to spend my money and time on frivolous things like taking all my friends out and buying things I didn't care for.
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But 2016 Pew study about online shopping found that 19903 percent of online shoppers prefer buying things in person when they can, compared with 34 percent of people who prefer online.
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They're not buying things on credit that they can't pay forWhether it's a $210,2000 purchase or a $250 purchase, those who are good with money won't pay interest on their purchases.
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While I kept my old money habits — buying things I couldn't afford on a credit card, barely saving — my lifestyle was a little bit better with a husband in the picture.
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You might think that as we've become a more consumerist society, spending almost all of of our time buying things off Amazon, that we own more stuff than we used to.
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At some point the positive effects for companies from the Republican tax law are going to wear off and some of those corporations "are going to stop buying things," Cox said.
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I'm trying to use a lot less water, eat out less, stop buying things I don't need, and encourage people around me to take transit or buy an electric car instead.
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The move would be a natural step for VR devices, which are filled primarily with gaming apps (which, in turn, rely on the very big business of buying things inside apps).
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The art class encourages children to draw fearsome-looking sharks to teach them the dangers of loan sharks, who specialise in getting children to nag parents into buying things they cannot afford.
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Focusing on that goal helps you see the payoff from cutting costs from your budget, which can range from finding less-expensive housing to buying things used rather than new, she said.
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The real problem is that investors in Puerto Rican debt have filed lawsuits arguing that the island must pay them before buying things like fuel for police cars and medicine for hospitals.
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"We already have a lot of information about who's been buying things from your site, we know if you have a blog … we can build all those touchpoints substantially better," Casalena said.
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Taylor Swift didn't just release a new single this week; she kicked off a meticulous campaign to get die-hard fans involved in the collective experience of buying things from Taylor Swift.
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This would be something close to a holy grail of digital capitalism—personalized content that engages and entertains people while simultaneously and seamlessly luring them into buying things online from the same site.
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To be sure, it's unclear if shoppers are actually buying more around Prime Day through impulse purchases, or if they're just buying things now that they would've normally purchased later in the year.
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"There are people buying things ahead of time, but maybe fewer than you might imagine, and right before the storm, which is not consistent with the advice they are being given," Shimshack says.
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By that logic, it takes all sorts to make the couples in the world — and sometimes, those couples feel like they best express their love by buying things during advertiser-invented retail holidays.
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I guess it's part of the reason that I suggest that, if you're looking for an upgrade, think about buying things that might be older, but could potentially have extra value for you.
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The idea is that by combining these platforms into a more unified service, Google's users may have an easier time buying things, using the same Google Express cart across all of Google's various offerings.
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And yes, obviously Christmas is for buying things—that's what we do—but this is a problem that has infected music in this country at large, and that just makes me a bit sad.
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It also has Apple Pay for buying things without a wallet or your phone, GPS and heart rate tracking for workouts, and even the ability to warn you if it detects certain heart problems.
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WATCH THIS: Zoe Saldana On Introducing Her Kids to Her Films: They're 'Heavily Into Superheroes' "We like buying things that were designed by amazing furniture designers or architects and then refurbishing them," Saldana said.
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Bitcoin long ago stopped being useful for actually buying things (partly because of its rocketing value and partly because of achingly-slow transaction times), so the questions facing speculators are: is this a bubble?
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The term "coupon" could be an early recession indicator since consumers often start to look for products with discounts as economic uncertainty increases, even before they defer, or stop buying things altogether, Colas said.
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This aspect of the Sears legacy is a reminder that retail is never just about buying things; it is also part of a larger system of power that seeks to define and control us.
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I don't have any desire to spend hours of my life tracking bonus points on a spreadsheet or buying things I don't need in order to meet a new credit card's minimum spending requirement.
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Next weekend is a friends birthday in Sedona, AZ and we want to surprise him with a summer camp theme, so I'm in charge of buying things to tie-dye and friendship bracelet materials.
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And we have a long history of philanthropy and entrepreneurs buying things or from having businesses that are unrelated to media supporting it like Kaplan did for the Washington Post for many, many years.
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Spacious has begun entering into short-term lease arrangements with landlords to create temporary Spacious workplaces in empty storefronts — kind of like a pop-up shop, but instead of buying things, you're paying to work.
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For shopping, if and when people do end up buying things through voice, that's gonna be really important because if you type "black shirt" on your phone to search that, you'll see 50 different results.
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Reports show that desktop is still the dominant form of online shopping among consumers, but people tend to be more comfortable buying things within the streamlined walled garden of an app than a mobile browser.
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"If you get numb [to buying things] and $40 seems like nothing, but you're making $10 an hour, you really have to work four hours just to make that money," Ning told NBC News BETTER.
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This ensures that I don't overspend on things I don't really want and gives me some time to mull over how much I really want to purchase the item, so I avoid buying things impulsively.
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The teapot and some of the other purchases made me think about how, sometimes, the best way to spark joy — in yourself, in a friend, or even in a home — really is by buying things.
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"If people are using their money to buy material goods, it's likely going to bring less happiness than buying experiences, buying things that bring you closer to other people, and buying time-saving services," Donnelly said.
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The addition will make it a little bit easier to start buying things through Apple's services, since you'll just have to log into an account instead of filling out all of your credit card information again.
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While we recommend buying things like a house plant to breathe life into your home and nifty storage sets to stay organized, we also suggest investing in wall art to really make the place your own.
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Mariah claims it wasn't long before Azarian went to town with her credit card, buying personal stuff and also claiming to retailers she was buying things for Mariah, trading the singer's goodwill to get deep discounts.
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Gloria Jean's was the best job I ever had, because it was the only time I felt like there was community to be found in an unnatural environment built solely for the purpose of buying things.
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I used to like to get books, comics, posters or vinyl records when I was a young man, but since the days of CD and DVD I stopped buying things like this; they are not my fetish.
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This should, in principle, make it easy to quit since it would only require going back to the old ways of buying things from an actual brick-and-mortar store or visiting websites that sell specific goods.
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The watchdog organization complained that Amazon's terms enable the company to switch out an ordered product with something else, and the buttons break laws protecting shoppers from buying things they are not fully informed about, according to Reuters.
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Like many old women who live alone, Flo spends a lot of time watching TV. She's particularly fond of shopping channels, often buying things just for the sake of buying them, piling up delivery boxes in her hallway.
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Amazon's impulse-buy-perfecting $5 Dash button has been around for about a year now, and comes in over 100 branded flavors, but what we still don't have is a Wi-Fi button for not necessarily buying things.
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However, not only are there an increasing number of options that ease the friction of buying things on mobile, but Google has also taken advantage of mobile marketplaces like app stores -- which don't work at all on desktop.
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Added the source of Kylie, whose baby girl on the way with boyfriend Travis Scott is the first child for both, "Not wanting to get out much, her focus has instead been on buying things online for the baby."
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One thing you can do for now is treat your home network as if it is a public one — if you must use it, make sure encryption is enabled if you conduct any private business like buying things online.
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Tools created to intercept encrypted messages between suspected terrorists undermine the digital security of anyone who relies on that encryption for their security, whether they're buying things online, managing their bank account, or communicating with personal or professional contacts.
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"The heart of the problem is that Google, Facebook, and Amazon manipulate the ways in which people who are selling something interact with people who are buying things, and they manipulate it for their own self-interest." https://twitter.
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I don't want to support the whole "buy stuff to buy stuff" mentality, but then I end up doing that because we've all been socialized into the culture of buying things as a social activity or to release stress.
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The thinking behind these sorts of pushes isn't hard to grasp: In a world where online shopping is coming to dominate, malls are doing everything in their power to make the actual act of buying things secondary to why customers visit.
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"At a stroke, this makes using Bitcoin useless for actually buying things, as you'd have to wait for a buyer's transaction to appear in the block chain … which from now on can take hours rather than minutes, due to the congestion."
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"With Amazon, it was pretty clear early on it was a drastically better consumer experience when it came to buying things online," said White, who started coverage with a neutral rating on Uber and a $53 per-share price target.
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About 70 percent of searches on Amazon are for generic products, like "running shoes" or "milk frother," rather than brands, and Amazon has made buying things so easy that customers often purchase the first thing with Prime shipping they see.
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"Have all of those kind of official business things you do in a separate email address, where you're not buying things, and that email address isn't full of spam and things that you're accidentally going to click on," he said.
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That last thing especially—shared finances—can be straining on a relationship, since buying things you don't need with your own cash is one thing, but burning through your lover's savings is one of the quickest ways to end up single.
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Both of these are important for the customer experience in commerce, as one of the biggest challenges in online purchasing is shopping cart abandonment, when people simply walk away from buying things because the process of doing so is too tedious.
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Screenshot: GoogleThe benefit to retailers is pretty obvious, because while Amazon's smart speakers have had this functionality for quite some time, aside from a few one-off skills like ordering a pizza from Domino's, Alexa really only supports buying things listed on Amazon.com.
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Usually, the best deals you'll find on Black Friday and Cyber Monday are not nearly as good as you think they are, and because of the massive price cuts, we end up buying things just because they're cheap and not because they're good.
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So, it's really about equality of luxury products -- buying things you really want, buying maybe that bag with the summer color that you wouldn't buy otherwise because you'd rather go safe with the black bag but knowing that you can resell it.
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The company's location on California & Battery street will be opening its doors for the first time at 7AM this morning, with quick bites, some grocery items and meal kits available for shoppers interested in buying things without going through a checkout line.
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Perusing the selection at the virtual Macy's in Buy+ — a convincing replica of a small slice of the Herald Square flagship store — I couldn't help but remember that it's not the act of buying things that's fun about shopping, but everything else besides.
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WHEN I WAS ON, AND JOE ASKED WHY I WASN'T BUYING MORE AMERICA EXPRESS AT 753, AND I TOLD HIM THAT I WAS BUYING THINGS THAT WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO. SO, IT'S – WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE MARKET HAS BEEN VERY SENSIBLE.
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If you get cash back or rewards from a credit card in exchange for buying things with the card, the Internal Revenue Service generally doesn't consider the rewards taxable, said Donald Zidik, a certified public accountant at Waldron H. Rand & Company, near Boston.
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My wife and I wanted to make sure he had great toys that would make playtime both fun and meaningful in terms of mental and motor development, and usually, this meant doing a lot of research and buying things on a one-off basis.
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"If people have an Alexa-powered device in the home, buying things from Amazon is going to be one voice command away, which reduces friction and integrates Amazon even more into people's daily lives," Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, told CNBC by email on Thursday.
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But before you start hyperventilating with the realization that you've once again procrastinated all of your yuletide shopping until the last minute, let us take the legwork out of your gift list this year with our handy, curated guide to buying things for everyone in your life.
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The latter are known as "dark patterns," which trick shoppers into buying things they didn't mean to — by, say, asking if they want to add upgrades to a plane ticket they just purchased and making "Yes" a big green button and "No" a small gray button.
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Estilo Brushed Stainless Steel and Glass Canisters with Window, $15.75Rather than buying things like pasta or cereal in individual containers on a regular basis, save money and plastic by shopping from your store's bulk bin and storing them in these glass containers with stainless steel coverings.
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As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28-year-old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and a musician who makes six figures playing with guitars five hours a day.
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As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 220-year-old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.
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In its bid to be the go-to place online for people who want to link up with their communities for local discussions, selling and buying things, and more, Nextdoor competes with a sizeable range of other entities that include Facebook's Groups, Craigslist and homegrown forums.
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That's true when buying things from a random person on the internet, too, so I try to give all the information upfront I think someone might need — and definitively enough that if they have a question, they'll know I've got the answer and will ask for it.
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It felt a little bit too gregarious, over the top, and proud in the wrong way, so things started to recede; not that people weren&apost shopping, but they weren&apost buying things that were so blatant as to what they were and how much they cost.
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Money gives you more control over your life; the freedom to retire early, the security to support yourself and your family, the comfort of buying things and experiences that excite you, the option of saying "yes" when your friends invite you to dinner...I could go on and on.
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"We see the value in things that others might not, like chefs being interested in what someone might consider a waste product — like broccoli leaves — or of buying things that have gone to flower," Henry says, holding up a bunch of coriander flowers destined for the menu at Le Chateaubriand.
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"I have a two-and-a-half year old kid, and I was thinking, in this age where I'm buying things with my watch now, he's going to grow up with so little sense of why it's okay to buy this $5 thing but not a $25 thing," says Yoo.
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Using a web crawler on over 11,000 retailer websites worldwide, a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chicago discovered so-called "dark patterns" on more than one in 10 sites, which can trick people into signing up for recurring subscriptions and buying things they don't want.
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But these movements are happening at the fringes, while most of America has been trained by big companies and our own government that capitalism is good, and buying things is not only necessary for the economy to function but necessary to prove to our loved ones that we do indeed love them.
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StackPath sees opportunity in offering a variety of services in a climate where businesses are increasingly buying things like security software and other IT services on a pay-as-you-go basis, rather than large cash outlays for products on large contracts that might also include costly hardware (especially in the case of security services).
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JACK MA: Change of the technology, change of the – DAVID FABER: You're going to have a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands, too – JACK MA: Well, you know, the other thing people are— DAVID FABER: How they might want to spend it on Alibaba watching movies and buying things.
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Outfitting a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles, now listed for nearly $108 million, he racked up enough points and miles buying things like cabinetry, lighting and Miele kitchen appliances to take a three-week, multicountry vacation over New Year's, with stops in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, the Maldives, Singapore, Bali and Thailand.
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Self-care can include, but is not limited to: saying no; buying things; refusing to buy things; taking a long walk; helping others; exercising; crafting; stockpiling and organizing things like coins and arranging them meticulously into Ziploc bags; stretching; listening to disco; spending time alone; singing karaoke (sometimes, alone); intending to one day start meditating.
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But mostly, major publishers aren't ready to bring their popular franchises and marketing power to VR. "You're going to see big studios launch on virtual reality when the market's established and people are buying things and they can make a lot of money," said Harley Baldwin, vice president of design at I Expect You to Die developer Schell Games.
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IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT WILL GLOBALLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU NEED CARBON TAX AND THE GREAT THING CALLED THE CARBON DIVIDEND WHERE IT DOESN'T GET SENT BACK TO WASHINGTON IT GETS SENT BACK TO THE PEOPLE AND YOU START BUYING THINGS OR DOING THINGS THAT MAKE MORE SENSE.
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We discussed the potential for rising M&A in the tech space, with a special focus on what Apple and the other giants are up to (hint: they are buying things), how well early-stage investors can make out even when deals get tough, the troubled situation at Uber, and, of course, a comment or two on the improving IPO market.
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As a reporter at CNBC Make It who's covered some of the most incredible ways people have made money online — including a 28-year-old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room — I was curious to find out if it was as easy as they made it seem.
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JAMIE DIMON: Look, the -- I'm going to tell you what I think the likely outcome is, that they make enough progress in 90 days, and actual progress: if you look at the Chinese, they're actually allowing some companies to buy in industries, they're talking about making actual immediate changes when they had their press release, both about buying things and changing -- they acknowledge that IP's are an issue and are trying to set up a process to try to make – you know, fix IP's.
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