Where can retail shops find inexpensive and effective advertising for selling their products globally? Well, the answer lies in the Internet landscape where a worldwide audience can be found. Are you thinking of buying banner ads on Yahoo! and MSN? Sure, they are the most-visited websites today, but it costs thousands of dollars and banner ads are increasingly being ignored […]

Can you read the teenagers’ mind? Five Below is certainly making big bucks doing so. Five Below is a chain of five-and-dime-type stores for teens where the glittery and right-now-cool items sell for $5 or less. The “micro-purchasing” opportunity – a new concept of making frequent, small purchases – offers thousands of trendy products for teens, as well as pre-teens […]

A whole new way of shopping in supermarkets is underway in Europe. Metro AG, one of Europe’s largest retailers, is revolutionizing the shopping experience by introducing cutting-edge technologies at its Future Store in Germany. Imagine this: upon entering the supermarket, you’re greeted individually – by a handy small computer, the Personal Shopping Assistant. With this device, you can easily recall […]

Quick: name me any e-tailer that comes to your mind right now. Amazon.com? You’re right! With heavyweight online stores dominating the e-tailing landscape, it isn’t easy at all to succeed selling online. So it’s a pleasant surprise when CoolBusinessIdeas.com spotted an online toyshop that has succeeded in cyberspace. Kidrobot (www.kidrobot.com) specializes in selling premium limited edition collectible toys called “urban […]

Have you ever wished that the sofa or cupboard which you’ve ordered after a painstaking search in a Courts showroom can be delivered right away to your house? A furniture store almost accomplishes that – you order today, they deliver it tomorrow. “Buy today…we’ll deliver TONIGHT!” – ambitious promise from Mealey’s Furniture (mealeysfurniture.com), but they have managed to make it […]