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Fraudulent abuse of coupons and promotions has become so commonplace in the retail industry that some merchants make room in their budgets to allow for projected losses. Larger retailers have many different items on their shelves or warehouses, so these retailers can make up this lost revenue in other areas, but for smaller retailers and specialty online merchants with limited wares, first-party fraud can take a serious chunk out of the bottom line. It can siphon off critical capital if it happens too often, and the worst part is that it can be impossible to catch those responsible, so many...

Okay, look...my version of sanity, may not be yours. But I tell you what, sane is what I am, despite the Universe conspiring to make me otherwise. And I'm not talking about international events, because, well...I can't do anything about that, other than stay sane at my end. It's a truth often ignored.My sanity is in retreating to creativity. My creativity may not be yours either, but I can highly recommend a spot of beading, baking, stitching, or outside of home, wandering through an art gallery, such as the National Gallery of Victoria, where daughter and I visited a little moment...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SPY.com may receive an affiliate commission. It seems silly to say, but we absolutely love the best t-shirts. We know you must, too, considering we all have a t-shirt (or 20) hanging in our closets. But, the best t-shirts are even better when they’re on sale. That said, the very best t-shirt on the planet is on sale right now — plus, a few more SPY favorites. We don’t need Prime Day for incredible deals on t-shirts. Right now, we’re seeing massive deals on a...

  On these lovely July days I am enjoying hanging out the laundry so much. Here is a chore that fits well into what we were discussing last week. It seems almost incredible that anyone would hang all the laundry outside in this day and age! Is it a waste of time? Don’t we have a machine for this? The paradox is that if the keeper of the home, the wife, the… housewife (to use a word that I love for its shock value)… hasn’t scheduled every moment in a bid for efficiency*, what seems like a useless chore becomes...

 Saturday Themeless by Malaika Handa The string of new Saturday constructors marches on with this puzzle from Malaika Handa of Brooklyn, NY. Below is a link to a playful but instructive interview with Malaika that includes this wonderful quote from her:  Also, when you’re solving, look up entries that you don’t know! It’s a game, not a test.That's tough advice for us completion freaks but I think it is pretty sound advice. I always say of myself, "I'm smart enough to know how little I know." Exhibit A: I got the correct fill for "Kells artisan" but had no idea what it...