http://katecarruthers.com/blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://katecarruthers.com/blog/about/kcarruthers-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Financial Aid News 99: Make your own layaway plan to save money | Financial Aid News Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:35:35 +0000 http://katecarruthers.com/blog/?page_id=1472#comment-1634 [...] Kate Carruthers pointed out this article about KMart and layaways – the layaway is coming back in style. If you’ve never heard of layaways, it’s because it went out of style probably in the 1980s or so. In the decades following World War II, stores had layaway programs where you paid a portion of the price of an item and when it was fully paid, you went to the store and picked it up. The primary reason layaway went away was the sudden ubiquity of consumer credit cards – easy credit meant everyone could borrow (even if they shouldn’t, like student credit cards) and stores could move inventory quickly. [...] [...] Kate Carruthers pointed out this article about KMart and layaways – the layaway is coming back in style. If you’ve never heard of layaways, it’s because it went out of style probably in the 1980s or so. In the decades following World War II, stores had layaway programs where you paid a portion of the price of an item and when it was fully paid, you went to the store and picked it up. The primary reason layaway went away was the sudden ubiquity of consumer credit cards – easy credit meant everyone could borrow (even if they shouldn’t, like student credit cards) and stores could move inventory quickly. [...]

]]> http://katecarruthers.com/blog/about/kcarruthers-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-830 bronwen clune » Blog Archive » Future (Summit) lessons in event-casting Wed, 27 May 2009 07:34:47 +0000 http://katecarruthers.com/blog/?page_id=1472#comment-830 [...] coming up and what was said) could have better created a context around what we were then tweeting. Kate Carruthers did some great vox pops using video and in hindsight I’d like to have experimented using [...] [...] coming up and what was said) could have better created a context around what we were then tweeting. Kate Carruthers did some great vox pops using video and in hindsight I’d like to have experimented using [...]

]]> http://katecarruthers.com/blog/about/kcarruthers-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Financial Aid Podcast Free MP3 Internet Radio Show » Daily Aid 99: Make your own layaway plan to save money Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:03:12 +0000 http://katecarruthers.com/blog/?page_id=1472#comment-627 [...] Kate Carruthers pointed out this article about KMart and layaways - the layaway is coming back in style. If you’ve never heard of layaways, it’s because it went out of style probably in the 1980s or so. In the decades following World War II, stores had layaway programs where you paid a portion of the price of an item and when it was fully paid, you went to the store and picked it up. The primary reason layaway went away was the sudden ubiquity of consumer credit cards - easy credit meant everyone could borrow (even if they shouldn’t, like student credit cards) and stores could move inventory quickly. [...] [...] Kate Carruthers pointed out this article about KMart and layaways – the layaway is coming back in style. If you’ve never heard of layaways, it’s because it went out of style probably in the 1980s or so. In the decades following World War II, stores had layaway programs where you paid a portion of the price of an item and when it was fully paid, you went to the store and picked it up. The primary reason layaway went away was the sudden ubiquity of consumer credit cards – easy credit meant everyone could borrow (even if they shouldn’t, like student credit cards) and stores could move inventory quickly. [...]

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