Daily Archives: April 30, 2012

Walmart figures out how to sell internet goods for cash

Walmart is introducing a new service in which its cash-only customers can buy its much broader array of online products. There’s no stuffing dollar bills into the computer. Instead, customers order online, use the “cash” button at checkout and are immediately emailed a number. The customer must go to at store and pay for the order within 48 hours.  Once the money is received, the product will be shipped.

It’s another example of how hard Walmart has worked during the recession to reconnect with its long-time core customers.

Tea Party congressmen take money from bankers

Oh, the irony. Two years after being elected on a slate of drastic change in the way things are done in Washington and angry at the money given to save the big banks, some of the incumbent tea partiers are looking a lot like just another congressman.