Data Age Welcomes Game X Change To PawnMaster Nation

As the global leader, most widely used, recognized, and most reliable software firm supplying...
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Marketing Matters

Marketing. I could write that word in hieroglyphics and we would probably be as close to...
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Leadership In Times Of Crisis

Over the years, the word “leadership” has frequently been used as more of a buzzword. Don't get me...
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In the Pawn Shop: General VS. Specialty Stores

I’ve been asked many times, “Why do you carry all this stuff in your store”? I know they’re...
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Data Age eCommerce Clients Surpass $45 Million In Online Sales

Data Age Business Systems, developer of the industry’s leading pawn management software...
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Is Cashless Now King?

Is Cashless Now King?

Jul 1, 2016

The continued use of cash is surprising given its inconveniences and the risk consumers face in carrying it around. Love it or hate it, cash is increasingly playing a diminishing a role in the U.S. economy including the convenience store industry.

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Ask Policeman Dan: How to Get Stolen Guns Back from Pawn Shop

Ask Policeman Dan: How to Get Stolen Guns Back from Pawn Shop

Jun 30, 2016

Q: My guns were stolen from my pickup on a recent trip to town. I found them in a pawn shop but due to the fact that I did not record the serial numbers or mark them with my initials or a way to prove they were mine. The police are telling me that I can’t get my guns....

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Payday lending isn’t helping the poor. Here’s what might.

Payday lending isn’t helping the poor. Here’s what might.

Jun 30, 2016

Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about payday lending. Need a primer? Catch up here. Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of...

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What’s the alternative to payday loans?

What’s the alternative to payday loans?

Jun 29, 2016

There are more payday lending storefronts in the United States than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Lenders loan to about 10 million people every year — an $89 billion industry. The “free cash now!” ads on talk radio and daytime television are incessant. Earlier...

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Report: Feds must step into ring with payday lenders

Report: Feds must step into ring with payday lenders

Jun 24, 2016

A new staff report by the House Financial Services Committee concluded that stronger federal consumer protections are needed for Americans who’d consider payday lenders. Titled “Skirting the Law: Five Tactics Payday Lenders Use to Evade State Consumer Protection...

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Fliers Criticize Firearm Sales at Charlottesville Pawn Shop

Fliers Criticize Firearm Sales at Charlottesville Pawn Shop

Jun 24, 2016

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - In the wake of recent headlines about gun violence, a Charlottesville store owner is catching some criticism for what he sells. Tobey's Pawn on West Main Street sells a variety of goods, including firearms. Some people have taken an...

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