Walmart will start a grocery delivery service in the Big Apple. The company’s Jet.com unit will offer same-day grocery deliveries in New York City, the company said Tuesday. Jet will open an e-commerce center in the Bronx in the third quarter. “We are excited to bring 100’s of jobs to the greater New York City …
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Walmart added a 3D virtual shopping tour to its website Wednesday, giving customers the chance to explore a nonexistent apartment filled with products they can buy. The tour showcases about 70 items from various brands and Walmart’s own offerings. Customers can click their way around the one-bedroom apartment and click on products to buy them from the site. The items …
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Cheeps! I need a vacation — so I’m taking one. You’ll have to live without me for the next couple weeks, but fear not: I’ve lined up a few sweet deals that’ll pop up while I’m gone, and CNET has a deep bench of awesome cheapskates to fill in the gaps. Speaking of benches, are you tired of sitting all …
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I’m not sure how Privacy.com escaped my radar for so long, but I’m glad I discovered it and even more glad to share it with you now. The service generates virtual credit card numbers for online shopping, which is awesome all by itself. But it’s about to unveil a new, secondary, perk, and 500 Cheapskate readers can get in early. …
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If you log onto the Wish app, you can buy dress shoes for $15, a watch for $3 or a 2-terabyte flash drive for $10. Peter Szulczewski, CEO and co-founder of Wish, is hoping to turn those dirt-cheap prices into a sales empire to rival Walmart. And he has the numbers to suggest that’s not such a crazy idea. In …
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It’s the (unfortunate) nature of the tech beast: Hardware makers eventually stop supporting older models. Case in point: At the WWDC event earlier this week, Apple announced WatchOS 5 — but said it won’t be available for the original Apple Watch. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean your first-gen wearable — which is also known as Apple Watch Series 0 — will …
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An Amazon Prime subscription costs $119 a year for free, fast shipping on everything you buy. Walmart’s new Jetblack service costs $50 every month — but you won’t have to do the buying. It’s a personal shopper service where you’ll simply text a request to have Walmart fulfill your needs, by purchasing the item and shipping it to you — generally …
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Still hanging onto your home phone? Worse, still paying for it? I suspect this is pretty common. It’s a hassle to give up a landline, if only because that number you’ve had for so many years is “on file” at so many places. It’s your home number — and you need to keep that, right? The number, yes. But the …
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Rich Hanna stands amid a seemingly unending series of long gray metal shelves loaded with a random assortment of items, including trash barrels, stacks of Kibbles ‘n Bits dog food, a stuffed-animal chipmunk sealed in a plastic bag, an LED-glowing underwater stool for a pool and a 35-pound tube of Safe Paw Ice Melter. That’s just the start. “You wanna …
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The higher-tech retail arm of Walmart, Jet.com, is celebrating its entry into the Apple authorized reseller program with sales on accessories when you buy a handful of Apple products. The deals don’t look too amazing, though, since they don’t seem to be covered by Jet.com’s dynamic pricing engine. MacBooks, iPhone and Watch are all regular price, same as the Apple Store, …
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