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Retailer's Guide to Credit Cards
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Blog offering newsletter containing tips for making the transition from a retail store to marketing on the Internet. Covers credit card processing and marketing. Get your copy of the e-book, "Retailer's Guide to Merchant Services" here.
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Retailers Seeking to Negotiate Credit Card Rates with the Banks
Photo by WVPressThe debate over retailers’ credit card interchange fees has spurred on several studies on the feasability of lowering the rates and allowing the retailers to negotiat their fees with the banks. President Obama requested a study ...
Retailers on Credit Card Fees
Merchants are currently in litigation over credit card interchange fees, which are the fees that merchants pay in accepting credit card payments at their storefronts. This has been a bone of contention for a number of years. Merchants feel their fe...
Teens Spending Less on Clothes – Shopping for Bargains
een unemployment has reached an all time high of “25.5%” reports Catherine Rampall of the New York Times, and is having an effect on the clothing retail business. Because teens have less money to spend on clothing, they are shopping arou...
CIT Completes Tender Offer
IT announced that it had fulfilled its requirements to receive $3 billion dollars from its bondholders in order to avoid bankruptcy proceedings. This move enabled them to continue to provide factoring loans to retailers who need financing. This not...
Consumers Spending More Money
The Consumer Confidence Index rose during the month of July meaning that consumers are beginning to spend more money. Along with this, the housing and auto industires are also showing signs of recovery. However, consumer spending is still low and if...
Consumers gearing up for back to School Purchases
There have been some interesting trends in consumer shopping habits which may help retailers prepare for the coming back to school and holiday shopping. Scarborough Research reports that consumers are now opting-in to receive coupons via text messagi...

