Hasta La Gadget!

Because Valentine’s Day is this weekend, Amazon is heavily promoting jewelry bargains. Makes sense! But are these discounts really a deal? Not exactly.

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Back when Amazon Prime first launched I made fun of it and generally thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever heard. In my mind, I would never buy enough items for Amazon to cover the yearly fee to be a member. In practice only a few short months after signing up, I was hooked. I bet there are lots of people out there that feel the same way.

Other retailers online are trying to compete with Amazon Prime, including electronics purveyor Newegg. If you are a computer geek, you probably remember Newegg as the place you went when TigerDirect didn’t have the computer products you wanted back in the day. These days, Newegg sells all sorts of electronics.

Newegg is trying to compete with Amazon Prime with the new Newegg Premier service Beta. The service costs $49.99(USD) per year and will give you free expedited shipping on anything you order. Premier shipping promises to have your items in your hands in two to three days, and discounts on rush shipping. It also includes special deals just for members, no restocking or return shipping fees, and early alerts for sales and events.

Newegg is offering a 30-day trial to see how much you like the service. Sadly, it offers no streaming video or free digital books like Prime.

[via ArsTechnica]

Pop-up shops are a dime a dozen these days but, when a brand decides to get weird, it’s often memorable.

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…. You can go to your credit card issuer and ask to have your debit and
credit cards re-issued without an RFID chip or you can protect your
cards, all of them, by buying a secure wallet or credit card case to
protect the cards from e-thiefs. I don’t often carry my money and my
credit cards in the same case, so I ordered a well-reviewed wallet and a
few credit card security cases to try them out.  Here’s what I like…

Apple introduced iBeacon technology to its retail stores as a means to help shoppers find what they want and direct them around an otherwise rather busy store. This technology was also introduced at CES 2014 as part of a scavenger hunt, and now it looks like Apple’s iBeacon technology is starting to gain a fair amount of traction as dozens of grocery stores around the US have started to roll out iBeach technology within their stores as well, alerting customers to location-specific information, such as coupons, whilst they shop. (more…)

Grocery Stores In The US To Incorporate iBeacon Technology original content from Ubergizmo.