SideStep App Lets Music Fans Skip the Long Merch Lines

People love picking up T-shirts from concerts. Not only is it a way for fans to show how much they love a group or artist, it also is a keepsake that commemorates a fun evening. However, those lines at the merch stand after the show can be heinous. To stop this, an app called SideStep…

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Hershey’s Lets Consumers Trade In Promo Items at SXSW

Festivals are always full of promotional products. Festivalgoers wear promotional sunglasses and T-shirts, drink from branded water bottles, and keep everything else in logoed tote bags. For some, all of that stuff might be too much to handle, so they have to pick and choose what they want. To…

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American Apparel Partners with Postmates for One-hour Delivery

American Apparel, Los Angeles, is bringing new meaning to the phrase “fast fashion” by teaming up with delivery company Postmates to offer delivery to U.S. customers within one hour. According to a press release, the service will be available in 79 of American Apparel’s locations in the U.S., and customers will be able to purchase…

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Alibaba Hits 3 Trillion Yuan Milestone in One Year

Chinese e-commerce business Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced yesterday that it hit the 3 trillion Yuan milestone (approximately $463 billion) over its China retail marketplaces in less than a year. Joe Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said in a blog post that this reflects economic growth in China. “The shift toward…

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Shower End-users in These Bath-time Promotions

When it comes to promotional products, the most useful ones are the ones that everyone uses. Those kinds of items can be hard to find. However, bath and shower items are products that can appeal to everyone, since, after all, everyone showers. Here are eight squeaky-clean promotional products for the bath or shower.

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Harvard Law School Changes Shield, Sells Remaining Merchandise

Last week, Harvard Law School announced that the school will change its emblem due to the inclusion of a former slaveholder’s family crest. The emblem, introduced in 1936, incorporates the school’s motto and wheat sheaves, which are derived from the coat of arms of Isaac Royall Jr.’s family. Royall, according to The Boston Globe, was…

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Pepsi Fined Over Misleading Promotion

In 2014, Pepsi started a promotional campaign in Hungary that allowed customers who collected a certain number of bottle caps to receive different Pepsi-branded gifts. As it turned out, the most popular gift was an illuminating ball. According to the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance, the demand for the ball was too much for Pepsi, and…

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Irish-American Organization Calls St. Paddy’s Day Merch Offensive

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. For many, it’s a day to wear festive green clothing or eat traditional Irish foods to celebrate Irish heritage—whether they’re actually Irish or not. For others, it’s a day to pack the pubs and down countless pints of Guinness. Somewhere, these two worlds merged, as many St. Patrick’s Day items,…

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