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TransCard Announces New Chief Financial OfficerWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 9:16AMTransCard – a leading provider of prepaid debit card solutions branded with MasterCard®, Discover® Network and STAR associations –has hired Brad Townsend as the new Chief Financial Officer. Townsend has twenty years of professional experience—with sixteen of those in management positions—in publicly and privately held firms in a variety of strategic financial and accounting roles. Most recently, ...

TransCard Announces New Chief Financial OfficerWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 9:00AM CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.----TransCard – a leading provider of prepaid debit card solutions branded with MasterCard®, Discover® Network and STAR associations –has hired Brad Townsend as the new Chief Financial Officer.

Recessionary gifts: utility gift card sales jumpTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:34PM(AP:NEW YORK) With luxury and electronic goods posting double-digit sales declines over the holiday season, shoppers still rung up warmth and good cheer in a spate of recession-inspired buying.

Slow holiday sales equate to big after-Christmas bargainsTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:10PMBy Ben McNeely Shoppers and bargain hunters hit the wide corridors of Concord Mills mall Friday to scope out the sales struggling retailers are hosting to boost sagging holiday receipts. In the storefronts in the giant outlet mall in Concord, big red signs proclaimed sales of 30 percent to 60 percent off already-slashed prices.  Deb Nance of Concord and her daughter, Tanya Frantz, and mother, ...

Questions/AnswersTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:44AMQuestions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. The lackluster holiday season and deepening recession will take a toll on retailers around the country. Experts are predicting the worst rash of store closings in 35 years.

Shell rolls out Saver CardTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 7:59AMShell Oil Products US launched the Shell Saver Card today, becoming the first gasoline retailer to make an electronic check payment method available ...

Happy returns for these giftsFriday, January 2, 2009 @ 4:06AMExchanging Christmas gifts in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton in the days after Dec. 25 is just as much a ritual as buying them before the holiday. People were lined up in some of the larger stores in the area as shoppers tried to get rid of unwanted presents or search for bargains.

Retailers slash prices for shoppers seeking deals after ChristmasFriday, January 2, 2009 @ 1:16AMBlack Friday Part II. No, it is not a horror movie. It is Dec. 26 and that is traditionally one of the busiest shopping days in the year.

Shoppers get even more finicky as they look for sale pricesMonday, December 29, 2008 @ 2:41PMRepeated markdowns no longer cut it with price-conscious consumers, so retailers must set prices closer to what shoppers will pay right from the start, a leading industry official says.