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How Companies Use ‘Drip Pricing’ to Charge You More

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How Companies Use ‘Drip Pricing’ to Charge You More Imagine you need to buy a airline ticket for your cousin’s wedding. You find what you think is the best price available to your destination. But the airline you chose charges for a carry-on, which isn’t included in the base price, so you add that as well. You also pay extra so you can snag a window seat. Oh, and wait,… Read more…

Lifehacker 172 2023-10-10

Oil Companies Work To Harvest Lithium From Fracking Wastewater

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Oil Companies Work To Harvest Lithium From Fracking Wastewater The transition to electric vehicles has increased demand for various minerals, including nickel, cobalt and lithium. This has created geopolitical issues for the United States, with the People’s Republic of China refining a majority of the world’s lithium production. Now, the oil and gas industry is trying to… Read more…

Jalopnik 221 2023-10-06

Autonomous Truck Companies Are Leaving California For Texas

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Autonomous Truck Companies Are Leaving California For Texas Three autonomous trucking companies with roots in California – Kodiak Robotics, Aurora Innovations and Gatik.AI – all fled the Golden State looking for greener pastures in Texas when it came time to test their vehicles. According to Bloomberg, this sort of move was set in motion back in 2017 when lawmakers in the Lone… Read more…

Jalopnik 204 2023-10-06

Car Insurance Companies wont insure me

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Car Insurance Companies wont insure me (i don’t know if this is the right sub for this, so if not i’ll delete it) I recently had to buy a new car after my last one was totaled (in a no-fault accident, will give details below). The car dealership got me a binder for a free month of insurance with their company, but it expires tomorrow. i’ve called at least 5 companies right now and th…

Reddit Personal Finance 236 2023-09-25

Companies aren’t showing whether their environmental promises have any impact

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Companies aren’t showing whether their environmental promises have any impact Oak saplings grow in tree guards in Montmorency Forest in France on Thursday, September 17th, 2020.  | Image: Cyril Marcilhacy / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA lot of companies that have pledged to restore ecosystems aren’t showing results, according to a new analysis of 100 of the world’s biggest businesses. They might have promised to plant trees…

The Verge 194 2023-09-21

‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing

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‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing Photo by Patrick George for The VergeHyundai introduced a new feature called “Hyundai Pay” that lets owners of the 2024 Hyundai Kona pay for parking at several thousand locations directly from their car’s infotainment screen. It’s the latest example of the auto industry’s multiyear effort to make in-car payments a real thing. Users input their …

The Verge 170 2023-09-18

Best third party logistic companies?

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Best third party logistic companies? Hello guys! I am starting a store based in Europe, but a big part of our initial market would also be in the US, just to give you some context. My question is regarding handling shipping and overall logistics. Do you guys use third party logistics companies? and if so, which ones do you recommend? Thank you! submitted by /u/Ok-Head2857

Reddit ecommerce 267 2023-09-05

Google and Meta are the best-paying Big Tech companies for engineers

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Google and Meta are the best-paying Big Tech companies for engineers Illustration: The VergeGoogle and Meta tend to pay their software engineers more than their peers in Big Tech, according to new data from Blind, an anonymous forum for tech employees. Apple and Microsoft, meanwhile, pay the least for entry-level engineers on average, though compensation tends to become more comparable across Big Tech for senior …

The Verge 166 2023-08-29

Auto parts listing companies?

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Auto parts listing companies? I am currently using revolution parts for our Ford store to list parts on eBay. It takes out inventory which is a little over 400K and automatically makes listings with pictures, description, and calculates the price based on cost and cost to ship and you pick the margin you hope to maintain. It is a pretty robust tool but as a company I am star…

Reddit ecommerce 248 2023-08-26

Auto Insurance Companies Are Refusing To Cover Drivers In California

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Auto Insurance Companies Are Refusing To Cover Drivers In California Insurance rates have been on the rise across the country thanks to most prominently natural disasters, inflation and reckless drivers. Of course insurance companies don’t really want to cover anyone, especially anyone residing in the state of California, as Oakland’s Fox 2 reports. And it’s becoming a problem. Read more…

Jalopnik 141 2023-08-24