People and companies across the nation appreciate the environmental benefits of reusable grocery bags. In April, its Laminated Big Storm Bag received a 5-star rating from satisfied customers.
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As the green movement has been gaining steam over the past decade, wholesale reusable bags have been exploding in popularity. Since 1975, Holden Bags has been serving customers in need of large quantities of tote bags. In April, Holden Bags’ Laminated Big Storm bag received a cumulative 5-star rating from satisfied customers. To spread the word regarding its ability to successfully meet consumer tote bag needs, Holden Bags recently partnered with LAD Solutions, an internet marketing firm based in Los Angeles.In addition, large corporations, not just individual consumers, have enjoyed helping the environment by making regular use of these bags. In one case, Quiznos turned to Holden Bags when it was in a pinch.
“Quiznos needed 1.8 million bags to be designed, constructed, and delivered in less than 8 weeks for an eco-friendly campaign that was being pushed out to over 3,000 stores across the USA. Holden Bags was able to fulfill this order on time and at an unbeatable price. Thank you Holden Bags for helping us take this project on without any glitches!” stated a Quiznos representative.
Holden Bags’ highly rated bag, the Laminated Big Storm bag, is made of premium-grade 110 GSM polypropylene. Each is outfitted with a bottom-layering insert that helps sturdy the bag for carrying heavier loads. The handles are double-stitched reinforced and have a 10-inch depth. The bag itself is 13 inches wide by 15 inches high, and logos imprinted on the side are 8 inches wide by 8 inches high.
Holden Bags offers free quotes to all companies interested in ordering. Customers must make minimum orders of 100, and the typical turnaround time is one to three business days. Businesses small and large that need any size order of wholesale shopping bags should contact the company.
About Holden Bags: Holden Bags has been assisting companies in need of reusable grocery bags, promotional totes, and trade-show bags with the products they need since 1975. The company currently offers wholesale prices and a three-day turnaround on most projects. Customers are offered a free quote and walk through a brief seven-step process before work is begun on their project.
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Augmented Reality Shopping Coming Soon - Mashable
The mobile app could be branded and provided by retailers. Consumers would download the app and then input products they’re shopping for and their selection criteria.
For example, a shopper looking for breakfast cereal could specify a product that’s low in sugar, highly rated by consumers and on sale. As the shopper pans the mobile device’s camera across a shelf of cereal boxes, the augmented shopping app will identify cereals that meet the criteria – and could also provide a same-day coupon or loyalty points.
Consumers could also opt in to include info from their social networks, such as reviews or comments from friends. Their preferences would be stored and added to during subsequent shopping trips to build a more robust preference profile.
On the front end, here’s how it would work: Upon entering a store, consumers download the app on their smart phone or tablet, register, and create a profile of features that matter to them – from product ingredients that will inflame an allergy, to whether packaging is biodegradable. When the shopper views a product via the camera viewfinder, the app recognizes it and, via augmented reality technology, overlays digital details on the image, such as ingredients, price, reviews, and discounts that apply that day.
“This will help you make a very accurate and precise decision relative to the criteria you have,” said John Kennedy, VP of corporate marketing for IBM Research.
Of course, the magic would happen on the back end, and that’s the big play for IBM.
IBM Research thinks that the app can help retailers offer marketing – in the form of product information, coupons or suggestions for related products – that would be welcomed by consumers. At the same time, the data it produces can give retailers insights into consumer trends.
But the devil is in the details. Exactly how this would work, data-wise, remains to be determined, according to Kennedy.
The app would pull information loaded by the retailer into its database running on IBM Smarter Commerce software, which IBM said provides a single view of the customer, inventory orders and shipments. But it’s unclear whether that database would contain all the criteria that might be important to an individual shopper, such as environmentally friendly packaging.
Kennedy could not say how the app would be packaged with other technology or services to provide a full product for retailers.
Nevertheless, IBM has a goal of releasing the technology by the end of the year, Kennedy said, adding, “At this point, it’s a demonstration of a really interesting technology that starts to provide a glimpse of how shopping will evolve. There’s more work to be done on the implementation and roll-out. The goal for IBM is that this would be another aspect of our relationship with retailers.”
Shopping gets me off my trolley - Sydney Morning Herald
HECKLER
"I hate shopping, shopping of any kind - clothes, furniture, linen, shoes, groceries, you name it." Photo: Bloomberg
FEMALE relatives have declared me the family anomaly. They have convinced me I have a defective gene. Why? Because I hate shopping, shopping for anything - clothes, furniture, linen, shoes, groceries, you name it.
I cannot find what I want; I snarl at offers of help; I dither; I end up buying nothing or closing my mind and just grabbing something. It is painful. I am positively allergic to shopping.
I have devised a coping strategy. I make a list of exactly what I need. If I find the items, I buy. If not, I pass.
I have the weekly grocery chore down to a fine art. Armed with the list, I charge around the supermarket with a trolley, snatch the listed items, check out, and thank the gods it is over for another week. I know exactly where everything is, which aisles to traverse, which to bypass - until some marketing bright spark decides to foil my purchasing ploy. A deliberate sabotage of my tactical formula to compensate for a shopping aversion.
I am in the supermarket, head down, list in hand, trolley on autopilot, passing the tinned fish section. Without looking, without pausing, I grab a tin of tuna. Arrrgh! It is soft, spongy. I drop it in shock. A packet of crumpets. The shelves of this section are stocked with wrapped bread and stuff of that ilk. I check where I am. Second aisle. Tick. I check the row signs. Bread and cakes. Confusion. Then I see a young woman further along, changing labels below packets of rice where spreads used to be. Careful not to butt her with the trolley, I ask what is going on.
She smiles. ''I'm re-stocking the shelves.''
''I can see that. But why is rice where Vegemite used to be?''
''We're re-organising the stock.''
''Why?'' I swallow the acid on my tongue.
Another sweet smile. ''To make it shopper-friendly and freshen up the experience for you.''
''Huh!'' I move on, keeping a rein on the urge to spit the dummy. After all, she is only following orders of those with marketing degrees.
I take time to try and fathom the reasoning behind the
re-arrangement of grocery items. Is it more logical to put the biscuit range next to non-perishable milks? I cannot see why.
This undermining of my carefully constructed shopping plan happens on a regular basis. When least expected. When I have been lulled into the prospect of in and out of the supermarket with exactly what I need in the minimum of time wasted.
Whatever the premise behind this frequent inane activity, I still believe it is a conspiracy to frustrate people like me who have been born with a so-called defective gene.
Elly Inta
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Keeping up with the cool kids: Make-up free grandmother-of-four Ivana Trump wears an Adidas tracksuit to go shopping - Daily Mail
By Jade Watkins
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She is known to dress-to-the-nines in a never-ending array of designer ensembles.
But it seems that Ivana Trump decided to have a day off the glamour today as she popped out to the shops in Saint Tropez.
The 63-year-old was barely recognisable as she stepped out make-up free wearing all-white Adidas tracksuit.
Keeping up with the cool kids: Grandmother-of-four Ivana Trump slipped on an all-white Adidas tracksuit to go shopping in Saint Tropez today
What made the sighting bizarre is that she paired the look with some mismatching sophisticated flats, a silver clutch and her hair in its usual favoured beehive style.
Going about her day, Ivana was seen walking around town with an unidentified male friend.
And what she probably wasn't quite expecting was to bump into the ever glamorous Joan Collins.
Glamming up her tracksuit: What made the sighting bizarre is that she paired the look with some mismatching sophisticated flats, a silver clutch and her hair in its usual favoured beehive style
The 79-year-old English actress and author was also out shopping with her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 32 years her junior.
Upon the chance meeting, the two women chatted away as they perused the racks outside a boutique.
Joan, as always, didn't have a hair out of place, wearing a chic billowing white and blue blouse and a white mini-skirt.
Baring all: The 63-year-old went make-up free for the outing
The Mediterranean-inspired outfit was expertly accessorised with some espadrilles and a cowboy hat.
Unlike Ivana, who didn't have a scrap of make-up on her complexion, Joan's visage had an expertly applied application.
This time Ivana was without her own young man.
Last month Ivana was seen cavorting in the Venice with an unidentified male companion.
Fancy seeing you here: Ivana probably wasn't quite prepared to bump into the super glamorous Joan Collins
The two were seen shopping and lunching in the romantic Italian city, closely entwined as they strolled along the canals.
Wearing a matching lace pants ensemble in powder blue, Ivana took the arm of her beau as the couple strolled the streets of Venice.
She chose comfortable ballet flats for the outing, and carried a matching black purse.
Me and my man: The 79-year-old English actress and author was also out shopping with her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 32 years her junior
Her boyfriend, meanwhile, looked sharp in a white polo shirt with blue insignia and blue jeans.
The couple followed their stroll with a glass of white wine at an outdoor restaurant, where they sat holding hands and clinking glasses.
After their lunch, the lovebirds stepped onto a speed boat to their next destination.
New man? Last month Ivana was seen cavorting in the Venice with an unidentified male companion
Ivana has become known for her penchant for younger men since the end of her 15-year marriage to real-estate mogul Donald Trump in 1992.
Her fourth and most recent husband, Italian stallion Rossano Rubicondi, was just 36 when he married Ivana, then 60.
And as recently as February this year, she was photographed frolicking in the Caribbean surf with 50-year-old Italian actor Antonio Zequila.
Happy: The two were seen shopping and lunching in the romantic Italian city
Ivana is mother to daughter Ivanka from her marriage to Donald Trump.
Thirty-year-old Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner welcomed their first child, Arabella on July 17.
The socialite is also grandmother to her son Donald Jr.'s three children Kai, four, and Donald John Trump III, two and baby Tristan Milos Trump.
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iBet: Tour de France favourites - The Independent Blogs
Tour De France, Points Classification
Back Matthew Goss each way at (8/1)
There has been a wholesale gamble on Bradley Wiggins to win the Tour De France, as everything has fallen into place for the British Team Sky rider. From 14-1 in the winter, Wiggins is now the best priced 5/4 favourite. Not only is he in great form, winning three of the five races in the build-up. But the time-trial-heavy route massively favours him over the climbers and the form of his main rival, defending champion and 9/4 second favourite Cadel Evans has been sketchy. Wiggins beat Evans by nearly a minute and a half in the recent Dauphine time trial and his team showed its strength by putting two other riders in the top four. Wiggins crashed out last year when fancied, and none of the riders who finished in front of him in 2009 (when he was fourth) are competing. Neither of the top two in the betting are any value but it’s hard to back against them with time trials so prominent.
Advices
Team Sky will be fully focused on helping Wiggins win outright and that will surely hinder their sprinter Mark Cavendish, who is best priced 5-1 to retain his green jersey and might even drop out early to concentrate on the Olympics. Slovak Peter Sagan is best priced 8/13 favourite in this Points Classification market at the time of writing. He looks impressive but it’s his first tour, and with some firms paying the top three each way (check out Oddschecker.com) , there could be value in getting with Matthew Goss at 8/1.
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Shopping through the eyes of a smartphone - InternetRetailer.com
IBM Corp. is building a new augmented reality shopping app designed for store retailers, the company announced today. The app uses image recognition technology to take input from the video camera on a smartphone or other mobile device and identify the products it ‘sees’. The app then acts as a shopping tool.
For example, if a consumer is searching in a supermarket for sugar-free breakfast cereal on sale, the app can look at the cereal aisle, point out the five boxes that meet the criteria and rank them by price or popularity among her Facebook friends—perhaps even offer up a store coupon on the fly.
Unlike apps that scan bar codes or QR codes, the augmented reality app can take in products whole aisles at a time, identifying items at various distances and angles as a shopper sees them. The information displays changes as the consumer moves based on what she is looking at or her set preferences.
In addition to increasing customer loyalty, the app may help physical retailers embrace rather than fight mobile shopping, says Paul Papas, global Smarter Commerce lead at IBM. “For me this app is arming retailers in the war against showrooming,” Papas says. Showrooming refers to consumers researching products in stores and then buying online, whether at home via a PC or using their smartphones while still in the store.
IBM is still working out the kinks of the app, such as whether a retailer will buy a branded version of it to share with customers or plug into a standard application that customers download from IBM. Retailers who use IBM’s Smarter Commerce software will be able to automatically feed in information about inventory and merchandising from their back-end systems. The app will work on multiple types of devices, such as Android and iPhone smartphones and tablets.
For now, the app is still in prototype at the company’s research lab in Haifa, Israel. IBM declined to say when a beta version will be released.
Customers will download the app when they enter a store and fill in some information, such as their preferred price ranges, food allergy constraints, or whether they like to buy so-called “fair trade” goods. They will be able to register with either a telephone number, customer loyalty card number or social media sign in.
The image recognition technology looks for specific letters, shapes and colors, the category of store aisle—for example ‘baking needs’ in a grocery store—and both the distance and angle of the object, putting all the information together to give a fast response. Customers do not need to focus, zoom or scan for the app to work. “You don’t need to put your nose next to the bar code and wait for some information to load,” Papas says. Instead, he says, the information appears instantly while strolling through a store.
“For us the motivation was recognizing all the changes that were going on in the mobile and social world and how that was impacting how customers are looking to shop and engage with retailers,” Papas says.
IBM says it plans to begin testing the app in stores soon.
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Penelope you do not know how wrong you are. i am of a certain age and have never had plastic surgery and according to other people not me i look a lot younger than my age. Its not plastic surgery its that if you look after your face and excercise you do not need plastic surgery. But even when you excercise at a certain age as you get older you just cannot get away from the wrinkles on the arms and the legs but the face is different she probably does facial excercises also just because she looks good does not mean she has had that done there is some really good mineral make up about too.
- vb, ws, 02/7/2012 22:26
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