Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.

Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.

A neat site which gives current economic data on the Chinese economy including figures on domestic trade which includes consumer goods. (Click on "Total Retail Sales" under "Domestic Trade")

In 1773, however, Britain furnished Adams and his allies with an incendiary issue. The powerful East India Company, finding itself in critical financial straits, appealed to the British government, which granted it a monopoly on all tea...

Discover how game theory and Nash Equilibrium affect where retailers set up businesses to compete with each other. [4:07]

Before pilots ever step behind the controls of a real jet they've already logged thousands of virtual air miles. It might not qualify you to fly a real jumbo jet, but you too, can learn the logistics of aviation by experimenting with the...

This site from careers-in-marketing.com provides descriptions of careers in marketing, such as retailing, product management, and marketing research. It also provides excellent links to other marketing career sites.

Anyone who has attempted one of those "claw machine" games at local restaurants or retailers knows how impossible it seems to win. This activity will get young scholars using the engineering design process to develop a claw that will...

What caused the economic recession of 2001? According to this CNN Money article, a lack of consumer confidence to spend money, poor corporate performace, contraction in the manufacturing and retail sales sectors, and job layoffs.

Site contains an exhaustive listing of museums, image archives, virtual museums, web sites and articles about Grant Wood and his work. Search engine to search more on Woods and retail sources for prints.

To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...

Modeling traffic data is important for urban planning, creating transportation systems, and even predicting how much foot traffic a retail store can expect in a given day. This genre of dynamic data science activities could be classified...

The retail bonanza known as Black Friday is now an integral part of many Thanksgiving celebrations, but this holiday tradition has darker roots than you might imagine. This article discusses several myths as to the term Black Friday....

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Read this article for information on the life and accomplishments of Clarence Birdseye.

Explore the inflation rate from 2013 through this informative case study. Trace the consumer trends through the graphs and charts on the site.

A former servant developed an influential beauty regimen -- and innovated business practices when she created the first franchise system of independently owned salons in the U.S. and Europe.

Designed for teachers in conjunction with a documentary by the same name. Lesson ideas, handouts and other resources make this work as a standalone site.

Explore a table of average salaries for the various career fields. However, these aren't representative of everyone in that field. For example, some television reporters make millions of dollars a year. The salaries listed are a little...

Can you tell if an online marketer is safe to do business with? Play this online game from the Federal Trade Commission to see if you can pick the safest vendor and get tips on how to shop safely online.

This article covers factors to consider when making business facility decisions including location, need in the facility, community, profitability, functions of the facility, efficiency, and more.

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This resource includes a worksheet that can be downloaded to aid a new business owner in determining what their startup costs will be. The article provides additional links to kinds of costs a new business owner will encounter.