Tag: Retail
What is personalized pricing, and how do I avoid it?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Recently, Delta Air Lines announced it would expand its use of artificial intelligence to...
How safe are your solar eclipse glasses? Cheap fakes from online...
Yao "Henry" Jin, Miami University and Simone Peinkofer, Michigan State University
Americans from Maine to Texas are set for...
Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day – an occasion that traditionally combines romance with...
In the market for a car? Soon you’ll be able to...
Vivek Astvansh, McGill University
This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind....
Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...
Americans are tiptoeing out of economic turmoil this holiday shopping season
Ayalla A. Ruvio, Michigan State University and Forrest Morgeson, Michigan State University
With two big shopping days on the...
Amid ‘checkout charity’ boom, some Americans are more likely to be...
Lauren Dula, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Ruth K. Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
If you live...
What drives people to panic buy during times of crisis: A...
Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University and Omar H. Fares, Toronto Metropolitan University
Fear can cause people...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
