Google is only just now wading into the manufacturing business. Up to this point, Google has been a product sold inside other products: a software service for email, mobile operating systems, search and so forth. So why are they opening up a retail store in Dublin? Either Google has quite a few more products up [...]
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Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon’s Price Check app which allows customers to scan barcodes of any item sold at Amazon and get an instant price comparison at any store. This allows customers to get on-the-go price comparisons and helps Amazon get pricing data from competitors all across the country. Much of the bad [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 27, 2011
Yesterday I wrote that people shopping from big box and online retailers can save money and use that saved cash to spend on local food and entertainment. A lot of people seemed to miss my point. Some asked why I would want to put an end to local businesses. Of course, I never said anything [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 26, 2011
Reporting for the Times, Erik Lacitis observes protesters at a Walmart Occupy Black Friday event: A 23-year-old protester, who goes by “Brit” and says she works as a barista, explains, “If we all chose to pay a little more, we could shop locally,” meaning not buying the cheaper, imported products. This may sound true enough [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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