With the best bargain shopping day of the year nearly here (Nov. 25), shoppers are being encouraged to start their homework now on products and prices to spot the real deals, and adjust their shopping schedule to the reality of Black Friday’s new store hours. “With many stores opening at midnight but others not...
PERFECTLY UNHAPPY DEAR DOCTOR KATHLEEN, I am happily married (most of the time) to a very disorganized man. When he undertakes a project, he does it half-heartedly and it takes him forever. For example, he finally cleaned out the garage, but left some of the boxes piled up in the back “to do later.”...
New York authorities and the Secret Service announced that they have broken up an identity-theft ring involving waiters at top steakhouses who skimmed credit card data and passed the information to associates who made counterfeit cards to buy luxury goods and resell them on eBay. Between April 2010 and this month, wait staff allegedly...
Customer defections over fees and other charges may not drive the nation’s biggest banks out of business, but some institutions could stand to lose a significant chunk of their deposits if they don’t work harder to make customers happy. In recent years, consumers have grown increasingly frustrated as big banks instituted new fees and...
