Final bids on Yahoo arriving soon

Yahoo is expected to receive the final bids from those interested in buying its core business, which includes advertising, search and content such as Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Mail.

Among the reported bidders for Yahoo are AT&T.

New Sam’s Club stores let customers purchase with a phone and avoid cashiers.

All stores also offer in-store pickup of orders placed online, evidently part of a plan to make shopping at Sam’s as convenient as possible.

With FedEx and the Postal Service expanding their weekend delivery options as more Americans go online to buy stuff, UPS is finally getting around to a test of offering Saturday delivery for ground shipments.

Bloomberg reports that the shipping company will test Saturday delivery in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Los Angeles for the rest of summer.

The tests will be used to determine if the volume of shipments on Saturdays justifies the cost of operating that day.

And neckties are increasingly absent on the fashion runway.

The casualization of the office has diminished the need for ties at work.

Even JP Morgan Chase has loosened its dress code.

Tie sales in the US peaked at $1.8 billion in 1995, according to market-research firm NPD Group. By 2009, the figure had dwindled to $418 million.

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