Amazon is the shopper maven. It has everything: low prices, huge variety of products types and manufactures, discounts and sales.

Therefore in preparation for the huge shopping season it may be a wise idea to learn to make the most of Amazon: find best tools to be able to brainstorm awesome gift ideas as well as save time and money.

Here are the 10 most useful Amazon addons for FireFox – if you are aware of any more, please comment!

1. Official Amazon Addon

The obvious way to start the list of Amazon FireFox addons is to list the official one. Add to Amazon Wish List is a nice tool that allows you to:

• Quickly add any item from any website to your Amazon Wish List (it pre-fills the product details like name and pricing);
• Easily access the search feature to look for Amazon customer reviews and discussions, products, Wish Lists and registries, and more

2. Amazon Search + Suggestions

This addon is one of the most usable and clutter-free out there: it installs a nice search field in your browser toolbar and enhances Amazon search with suggestions:

Besides, it provides a quick and easy way to change the target country you search in!

3. Track Prices

Do you want to buy something but waiting for the possible price drop? Price Drop is a shopping companion for Amazon: it adds a link to each product on Amazon offering you to track its price. If you enable tracking, you’ll get a notification if its price drops.

Addon Features:

• Track Amazon products with one click of a mouse.
• Check out your tracked product list you are tracking: click the drop icon, or the Tools->PriceDrop menu.

4. eBay Spy

eBay Spy is the fastest way and the most fun way to compare Amazon and eBay prices. Just launch it any time you on any product page at Amazon and see the related deals at eBay!

5. The Camelizer

The Camelizer provides graphs of price changes over time of Amazon products. The chart loads when you view a product, appears on top of the page and is toggle-able (so it doesn’t get in your way).

The Camelizer also places a Track Product button on the product pages so that you can create a price watch on our site. These are used to receive alerts when prices drop on products you want, and you can receive these alerts via email, Twitter, and/or RSS feed.

6. Amazon Button

This can be the great Amazon navigation assistant! The Amazon Button lets you:

• Easily navigate popular amazon destinations (Sign in, My Cart, My Account)
• Visually Browse best sellers/most gifted items (Best sellers, Most Gifted Items, Shakers and Movers)
• Customize Menu Items (User can add up to three custom menu items)
• Search Amazon using context menu (In the browser, highlight any text, right click, and choose “Search Amazon for ….”)
• Custom Button Destination (User can customize the destination of the “main button” itself)

7. Amazon Sidebar Discount Search

This addon is by far the most fun way to find discounts in any category. Not sure what exactly you want to buy but feel like shopping today? Just choose the category and specify the discount amount. Optionally you can specify:

• Keywords,
• Min / Max price;
• Shipping options and promos;
• Sorting options:

8. Does Amazon Ship to …?

Does Amazon Ship to …? – this simply awesome addon lets you quickly check if the item can be shipped to your country or region.

9. PictureFox

PictureFox is Amazon product image gallery enhancer. It makes accessing and viewing high-resolution images easier and more fun:

• High resolution pictures: no more “Zoom-Viewer” with ridiculous small viewing window. View high definition pictures (up to 6 Mega-Pixels) on many products without viewing restrictions!
• All customer pictures in one fast gallery. No endless click-throughs!
• Display of a larger preview image while hovering a product link / image.

10. Amazon Assist

AmazonAssist is another official amazon addon that follows you around the web and connects you to Amazon whereever you are. It searches Amazon.com as you search the web and delivers product information to your browser when you need it. With it you can access product details, ratings and latest prices from anywhere on the web.

It displays the related results at the bottom of your browser. Hover over any of them to see the product details. For “Dell” search, for example, we get the list of Dell laptops with the price details:

Anything else to add to the list? Let’s make the collection better!

No matter how much we want to protect them, our kids are surrounded by violence and cruelty these days. This post showcases some bizarre and creepy school supplies you don’t want your kids to have.

So unlike most of our collections, this “Back to School” edition is about what NOT to buy! Stay away from these!

1. Doll Eye’s Pencil Sharpener

First, it is just cruel and secondly it might scare your kid away from using a pencil:

2. Animated Girl / Boy Pen Holder

It may seem funny but if I were a teacher I would surely ban those (see this video as well to watch that bizarre thing in action!):

3. A Cigarette Pen

I am sure with the pen like this, hiding a real cigarette is even easier. Besides, it actually promotes smoking. doesn’t it?

4. “Sexy” Girl Pencil Sharpener

Ok, there’s nothing really sexy about it; instead it is just stupid and embarrassing:

5. Butt Staion as Desk Organizer

A man sitting on the toilet serves as the classroom supplies organizer: it may be funny but it’s definitely adult humor:

6. Dead Fred Pen Holder

Doesn’t it sound too violent: Each time you place your pen in the holder, you stab the man through the heart.

7. Murder Ink Sticky Notepad & Penholder

Murdering again? Don’t get me started!

8. Doll’s Head Pen Holder

Like the very first gadget we mentined, this one is just too cruel and creepy:

9. @ss Pen Holder

Now, this is just too embarrassing!

10. Vomit Station Notepad & Penholder

I guess this one is from the same manufacture as #5 – not cool as well:

It happens so often that you just can’t put into words what you want to buy but you can clearly see an image. Or that you can match the color of your shirt to the color of your new handbag.

Luckily there are quite a few visual search engines to come in handy.

This post lists the coolest and the most popular of them: shopping search tools that allow to search by color!

Happy color-shopping!

1. Etsy

Etsy is the community of sellers who sell homemade products.

Color choice: Huge

Product range: Specific (only handmade)

The scenario:

1. Just hover over the search field and watch the colors pop up following your mouse.
2. Click on any color spot to see the product range matching the color:

The results:

Additional search options (via the new color search engine):

• Search by term;
• Select the color from color picker.

2. Like.com

Like.com is by far the most popular visual search engine for shopping. It indexes the huge variety of products and has the large range of search options.

Color choice: Large

Product range: Huge (Fashion)

The scenario:

1. Search for the term first;
2. Click “COLOR” in the navbar and choose one of the available color options:

The results:

Additional search options:

• Search by the price range;
• Search by brand;
• Search by material;
• Limit the search by site.

Shopping search engines with similar color search options:

• Become (color choice is huge but the search relevancy seems to be inadequate);
• Shopwiki (the category relevancy is not always precise)
• TheFind

3. Empora

Empora is the fashion search negine most women will appreciate.

Color choice: Limited

Product range: Large (Fashion)

The scenario:

• Search for the term first;
• Choose one of the color names to filter the results (if you have hard time recognizing the color names, try hovering over the color name and you will see the color preview):

The results:

More search options:

• Search by price range;
• Search by retailer.

4. Picitup Shop

Picitup Shop claims to be the “most extended product search on the web”.

Color choice: Large

Product range: Medium

The scenario:

• Search for the term first;
• Find the handbag you like most and click “Similar images”
• Filter results by colors available in the left-hand sidebar (while you are filtering products by color, the color palette is changing based on which colors you can choose from):

The results:

More search options:

• Search by brand;
• Search by material;
• Search by brand name.

One of the best things we now have due to the Internet is the ease with which we can research anything, including any shopping-related questions.

There is no reason to ask all your friends and relatives for advice: all you need is sit in front of your computer and find if your question has been asked already (or, if not, ask it yourself and get plenty of replies from real people and experts).

This is why Q&A sites are so popular: they connect you to people who know how to solve your problem.

This post looks at 15 Q&A sites that answer shopping- and saving-related questions:

1. AnswerBag/ Shopping

• Shopping thesaurus terms and definitions
• Shopping images;
• Shopping blogs by members;
• Shopping Tweets;

2. Wiki Answers/ Shopping

• Wiki style (each question and answer can be edited and discussed)
• Each contributor has a popularity and trust score

3. Yahoo Answer/ Shopping

• See top Answerers in Yahoo! Shopping
• See open or resolved questions;

4. Askville/ Shopping: created by Amazon, Askville has a very strong shopping focus and unites very knowledgeable shoppers. Generally you’ll find the site very similar to Yahoo! Answers.

5. Fluther / shopping

• A huge variety of shopping related tags to browse: food, deals, price, gifts, etc;
• Fluther learns the type of questions you like to answer as you use the site and directs more relevant queries your way.

6. Grupthink/ Shopping

• “Open-ended topics”: answers form lists, e.g. Weird names of products
• Thumbnail photos and comments on each answer

7. Dizzay/ Finance

• A forum-like interface;
• The site has a few useful features but is generally stuffed with ads (and sometimes spam)

8. CashMoneyCommons

• A money-saving community;
• Every question and answer can be voted up or down

9. Guruza / Shopping

• Rather basic and limited in features
• Allows experts to earn money by asking the questions/

10. FunAdvice / shopping

• Shopping related photos;
• Shopping groups.

11. Fixya: a tech related shopping community discussing gadgets and computer hardware:

• Each member can have expertise in certain products and/or brands;
• You can ask a general question or a direct question to the expert that best fits your needs.

12. Ask.MetaFilter/ Shopping: a very basic and simply implemented q&a site (much like forum) with very useful and detailed advice given.

13. MothersClick / Fashion and Beauty

• Community by and for moms;
• Very detailed and useful answers for any question

14. Mamapedia / money

• Community by and for moms;
• Interesting discussions on a variety of money-related topics: budgeting, kids and money, saving, etc

15. IMshopping

• Earn money by answering shopping questions;
• See related products;
• Vote answers up and down:

Today you can find anything using a search engine; however to be able to use the full potential of the search engine you need to know various tips and tricks.

This post looks at most useful search shortcuts for Google, Bing and Yahoo to find what you need quickly and efficiently.

Note: a search shortcut is a set search commands (pre-defined combination of characters / words) allowing to see relevant information snapshot.

Google search shortcuts for shopping:

1. Find a product within the specified price range: use … operator: {laptop $400…$600}

2. Product overall pricing: search for the product name, e.g. {mp3 player}

3. Convert currencies: plenty of patterns are supported, for example just type {50CAD in USD} and hit the search button and you get the answer instantly!

4. Use Google as a calculator: for example, to calculate total including a discount: {25% of 39}

5. Find any store on the map: just drop the address in the search box:

6. Get the selection of stores for any product: search for your [product] + city and (optionally) street:

7. Track package delivery: just search for your shipping tracking number:

Yahoo! search shortcuts for shopping:

8. Product reviews : search for the product name, e.g. {mp3 player}

9. Look for coupon codes: search for [coupon code + seller's name]:

10. Convert currencies: this one is very similar to Google’s shortcut, so you may use any:

11. Use Yahoo! as a calculator (also very similar to Google): for example, to calculate total including a discount: {25% of 39}

12. Find any store on the map: just drop the address in the search box:

Bing search shortcuts for shopping:

13. Get product pricing, specifications, brands : {mp3 player}

14. Use Bing as currency converter: just like Google and Yahoo!

15. Use Bing as a calculator: just like Google and Yahoo!

16. Get the selection of stores for any product: search for your [product] + city and (optionally) street:

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Let’s face it, we are never satisfied with our salary. No matter how much more we earn, we think it is high enough for a month or two; then we start thinking we are worth more.

This is natural and most people will agree with that, I think.

But it is hardly possible that every time we think we are worth a higher salary, we will be paid more.

So this post is meant to satisfy your appetite for some time – 3 fun things about your salary:

1. You earn MUCH more than most people in the world

Yes, no matter what you may think, your salary is really high when compared to many people around the world. You don’t think so, do you?

Then try this tool that shows how rich you are:

How rich are you?

All you need is to provide your current annual salary, choose the currency and hit button “Show me the money!”

After that you should feel much richer about yourself than you used to. Now, here are some ideas for you to spend that extra money that you appear to have:

• $8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
• $30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
• $73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
• $2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.

Note: the number stops updating at an annual salary of $200,001. Meaning that you can play around with higher numbers, but they’ll all say the same thing after that point.

2. Do you dream to become a millionaire? You are closer than you think!

How many of us think of one million dollars as of some crucial, yet unachievable aim. Now, this tool will show you that you are closer to that dream than you think:

When will you be a millionaire?

Provide the details:

• How much you have;
• How much you plan to save pre year or per month;
• Your federal rate;
• Your state rate;
• Some tax and growth details;
• Hit “Calculate” and you are done!

Now you can go plan how you can spend that million!

3. What was your salary worth 50 years ago?

If you are still not convinced that you are rich, go find out how much people in the same position as you earned 50 years ago:

This article (based on data from Marketing Worth’s calculator) lists 25 contemporary jobs and their current salaries* compared with their monetary equivalent 50 years ago:

You can find your job there or use the calculator to estimate your current salary (current data is only available till 2008):

Looks like with the current salary you would have been really rich 50 years ago! Now let’s just wait for scientists to invent a time machine.

We’ve seen already how much help Twitter may be when it comes to online shopping:

Twitter is a great way to research the seller’s reputation, find new deals and ask for unbiased opinion. Besides, you can reach plenty of brands providing alternative customer support on Twitter.

And here are 5 more Twitter-based tools that will help you with daily shopping: 5 fun Twitter bots:

1. Buy it Later:

Buy it Later is the Twitter bot that The bot requires a FireFox addon to work properly. So here how it works:

• Install the FireFox addon;
• Follow BuyItLater on Twitter;
• Go to any item page on Amazon and click “Buy later” button;
• The tool then checks Amazon for updates every minute;
• If the item price and/or availability changes, the bot alerts you via Twitter DM or email.

2. TinyMassive

TinyMassive is a nice Twitter bot that helps you quickly find out what’s the lowers price for the given product. Here’s it how it works:

• Tweet your product search to @tinymassive
• The bot will reply with the Tweet containing: the minimum price found and the link to the product search results.

3. Track This

Track this is the fun Twitter bot that will track your online purchases while they are being delivered to you:

• Register at the site and follow the bot;
• Enter a tracking number and a nickname for a package;
• The site will continually monitor the package and each time the package changes location you’ll be getting a Twitter DM.

4. MindMeTo

MindMeTo is a simple Twitter reminder that will remind you of your planned purchases:

• Follow mindmeto on Twitter and wait for the bot to follow you back.
• @ or DM the bot what you want to remember to buy (e.g. d mindmeto buy some milk tomorrow);
• At the scheduled time, the bot will send you a private direct message to “buy some milk”.

5. MultiMap

MultiMap twitter bot helps you find any store nearby. Here’s how it works:

• Add the bot to friends;
• Send it the DM containing your current location + the shopping facility, e.g. Closest shopping to Tampa, FL (the syntax is described here).

Managing your household budget is harder than it may seem: you need to take into account so many things, calculate all your (possible) expenses and (if you are smart and frugal) save something for the future.

Things become even harder if you run a (large) family where everyone has his own needs and you have to think for all of your family members.

Various people have different tricks – this post offers only one possible solution getting money management help from free online tools that are designed to make your lives easier. Here are the 5 most usable of basic free online budgeting tools:

1. Buxfer

Buxfer is a handy utility that will be helping you manage your monthly budget.

Monitoring: Set spending limits per category and stay within those limits by monitoring your expenses and getting real-time alerts on your mobile device.

Reminders: Get email reminders when your bills are due.

Charts and graphs: Foresee your financial future and meet your financial goals with help of various visualization tools:

Accessibility: Access Buxfer with your Blackberry, iPhone, SMS, email, Twitter, Facebook, iGoogle, Netvibes and more.

2. ClearCheckbook

ClearCheckbook is an extremely easy way to track your spending, set a budget, and organize your finance.

Plan and save: Set your spending limits and when you would like them to reset and the tool willl track everything for you.
Moreover, go back and look at previous months limits and how close to your limit you came.

Compare: Get visualized data on all your history and stats for easier management and comparison:

Scheduling: Set and schedule your transactions (including recurring transactions) and get notified when your payments are due.

3. MoneyTrackin

MoneyTrackin is a free online tool allowing you to track all your expenses and income without effort:

Manage: Log all your transactions (expenses/income) and tag them to organize them better. Grab visualized reports and summaries of your spendings:

Discuss: Share tips with other users and take advantage of the community knowledge to save money.

4. Wesabe

Wesabe is a free money management utility that combines easy-to-use budgeting tools with a thriving community of people anonymously sharing ideas and advice to help everyone get more value for their money.

Manage and Compare: Set spending targets and track how close you are to the limit:

Share: Discuss your money issues, saving tips, etc:

5. PearBudget

PearBudget is an easy-to-use, almost free ($3 per month) budgeting tool allowing to manage your spendings.

Step 1: Select the categories you want to use in your budget;

Step 2: Drag each category to the appropriate column: monthly expenses (like groceries or rent) versus irregular expenses (like car maintenance or property taxes)

Step 3: Set the amount of money you plan to spend on each category;

Step 4: Set your planned monthly income;

Get your budget and summary of your budget:

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The economy might not be great right now for a lot of people globally, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still take a break and enjoy a vacation. You just have to look for deals — and in the fall you can often find great flight deals to a wide variety of destinations.

Keep the following tips in mind when you’re booking your trip, and you might just come across a flight deal this fall that you can’t pass up!

1. Use online comparison sites.

Online flight and hotel comparison sites can be great tools for finding flight deals not only in the fall, but year-round. While you won’t always find the best deals, the point is that you can compare offers from multiple airlines in one place. With deals changing rapidly, you could miss out on a decent flight deal if you tried to compare the same sites manually (and much more slowly).

If you do find a decent deal on a comparison site, you can always quickly give the airline a call to see if they have any better offers available if you book through them directly.

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Here are some flight comparison sites you might want to try:

• Expedia.com
• Travelocity.com
• Priceline.com
• Orbitz.com
• CheapFlights.com
• CheapTickets.com
• Vayama.com

2. Make sure it’s the off-season at your destination.

If you try to travel during peak tourist season at your destination, chances are good that you’re going to get a lousy deal. When more people are competing for a limited number of seats, airlines can charge a premium for them.

I’ll give you a personal example. I’ve been toying with the idea of taking a trip to the U.K. (from the east coast of the U.S.) for a while now. I’ve tracked flight prices among other things to determine the best time of the year to go. Here’s the gist of what I’ve come across.

When I tracked flight prices through the fall and winter (just basic economy seats for a non-stop flight from New York to London) you could get tickets pretty easily in the $400-500 range round trip. Just two years ago a family member managed to get a deal for even less than that for a similar flight. Then in the spring into the summer, I watched the rates go up, up, up. They stopped around $750 for the same flights (on the low end based on price comparison sites — you could certainly find higher prices if you were a glutton for punishment).

It was all about the off-season. If you can still do the things you want to do when most tourists aren’t visiting the area, then do it even if it might be a little cooler out. Sometimes the off-season will surprise you. You might not have to wait until the weather’s awful, but just until people are done with the bulk of the summer rush or when students go back to school.

3. Look for last minute deals.

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Sometimes the best deals offered are last minute deals. That’s because airlines want to fill as many seats as possible. If the flight date is approaching and there are still a bunch of unbooked seats, it’s in the airline’s best interest to get someone on board for $300 let’s say than to have an empty seat, even if other passengers paid twice that by booking earlier.

You can try to get last minute deals in person at the airport, but a better option is to set up email alerts with comparison sites or even the airlines themselves if they offer them. You’ll get an email featuring several last minute deals. This is a great option if you want to go away but you’re not really fussy about where or when (think of it as an adventure when a deal comes up that you just don’t want to pass up).

4. Check multiple departure points.

You might be surprised to find out that the airport you depart from (or even fly into) can play a big role in the price of your plane tickets. For example, I live about an hour from Philadelphia. I initially started researching ticket prices from there. Then someone recommended to me that I check Newark (northern New Jersey — about a two hour drive for me). I did, and was astonished to see how much lower the fares were for practically the same flights. I could save $100 or more round trip in some cases.

Then I thought “what about leaving from New York?” It’s not that much further than driving to Newark for me, and I have family up there (meaning I could leave my car safely with them and have them drop me at the airport). Some of the tickets were cheaper still! I was shocked at the difference between leaving from JFK and leaving from Philadelphia.

I compared a few other hypothetical flights to compare departure points. JFK didn’t always beat Newark (in fact Newark seemed to have the lower prices more often). The fact that it varied though is just a testament to the fact that you should compare airports every time you want to fly. Comparing airports could even be a bigger money saver than comparing airlines!

5. Don’t travel over the holidays.

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While you might not have a choice (if you need to fly over the holidays to see family), avoid it if you can. At the very least, try to avoid the busiest holiday travel days. Why? Because getting a good deal isn’t just about the money you lay out. It’s also about the experience. Even if you could save $50 on a ticket, is it worth it if you’re in an overcrowded airport for hours with delayed flights and cranky passengers all around you? I’d say “no.”

At the same time, some airlines have even been known to charge premiums on busy holiday travel days (meaning your ticket might be slightly marked up if you want to travel on “premium” days). The easiest way around this is to schedule carefully. For example, while a lot of people are traveling home the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the U.S., you might be able to get a much better deal (and less airport stress) if you can go home on the following Monday or Tuesday instead.

Finding a good flight deal this fall might take a bit of leg work and looking around, but they’re definitely out there! Being flexible in your travel plans can go a long way towards saving you some money. And who knows? That off-season trip might just prove to be one of the most relaxing and enjoyable holidays you’ve ever taken (minus all the other tourists of course)!

Twitter can be an awesome shopping tool and one of the best things about that more and more companies provide an alternative customer support via Twitter.

This means, you can reach them within your favorite network and also discuss your issues in public.

So let’s see who you can find on Twitter so far (if you know any more companies, please comment, I will be constantly updating this post).

Cars:

TeslaMotors is another auto company to maintain an active Twitter stream.

Renault updates Renault_Live Twitter account (in French).

HarleyDavidson tweets company news and updates.

General Motors’s corporate bloggers “Robyn, Lesley, Wendy, Nuria, and sometimes Adam” tweet to update the world of company news.

FordCustService, updated by Shawn Lollie marketing specialist at Ford, this Tweeterfeed answers customer’s concerns and make it clear they value every customer. In reality, it is more like a support group:

Finance and Business:

HRBlock is the Twitter account by Tax company and software provider called H&R Block. Their Twitter profile is set to answer customers’ questions as well as share business news.

Kelly from Quicken Loans will answer any of your mortgage questions.

State Farm insurance company “for auto, life, health, home owners insurance and more” can be reached on Twitter for any finance-related questions.

Allstate is another well-known insurance company to be found on Twitter.

Hoovers.com tweets to inform followers of “the top business information provider in the world, represented on Twitter by blogger Tim Walker and communications chief Adam Hanin”.

Computers, Electronics and Internet:

Dell maintains multiple official Twitter profiles. None of them is officially designed to help customers but the good news is that it has multiple international accounts, so you can ping them depending on what country you are in.

ComcastCares is the most responsive Twitter customer support I am aware of. It has a person behind it who will answer your questions quickly and actually help solve your problem.

Embarq is another Internet service to be found on Twitter.

Plus.net is yet another Internet service provider streaming company updates via Twitter.

OfficeLiveGirl and OfficeLiveGal provide Twitter customer support for Microsoft Office Live.

Network Solutions tweet to build relationships with Twitter crowd and share company news.

Kodak has their Chief Blogger tweet their news and updates.

ThinkGeek is the great place to buy a geeky device or apparel, besides that they have an awesome Twitter stream to follow.

SanDisk, flash memory cards, mp3 players, USB drives manufacturer, for customer interaction.

Overstock can be followed on Twitter here.

Phones

Guy1067 is the name for Twitter account meant to help Car phone Warehouse’s customers as well as increase their engagement.

Canada’s wireless phone company TELUS Mobility can be found on Twitter for company news and updates.

Traveling and Transportation

JetBlue, a well-known airline ticket provider, has one of the most popular Twitter profiles I know.

British Airways maintain a pretty much active Twitter profile, addressing customers and also answering questions.

Southwest Airlines is another airlines company to be reached on Twitter.

Virgin Airlines rely on Twitter not only as a customer service tool for answering questions, but they truly build a rapport with their audience and encourage genuine interaction.

Going for a cruise? Catch @CarnivalCruise on Twitter to lean their offers and rates.

(Fast) Food

Brad from Starbucks posts personal Tweets as well talks to clients.

GottaWannaNeeda is a fun profile by Bojangles’ “Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits”.

Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits tweets new offers and news.

SeamlessWeb, a place to order food online, streams company news and answers customers’ questions.

FriendofBigRock is the Twitter community for those who like Big Rock beer.

Whole Foods tweet organic news fresh and advice and can also be reached by customers.

Plan to have a big, delicious, premium-quality burger? Check out Carl’s Jr. on Twitter.

Hardee’s is another place to have a burger over Twitter.

Dunkin’ Donuts can be caught on Twitter any time. They have enjoyable Twitter stream, so be sure to check them out!

Bigelow Tea is a tea company with Twitter stream updated by Justin and Linda.

Clothes and Fashion

Best Buy CMO can be reached via Twitter to ask a question.

Zappos tweets via their CEO that goes by name “Tony”. The awesome thing about this account is that they follow back almost everyone, this means you can DM them privately.

Nordstrom is another fashion specialty retailer to be found on Twitter.

Pacsun clothing provider uses Twitter to unite its customers’ community.

Avelle is the retailer of designer handbags. Their Executive Vice President tweets company news and helps customers.

KEEN, shoes and bags manufacturer, leverage Twitter for customer service and community building.

Onlineshoes.com supports customers via Twitter here.

T.J. Maxx Stores welcome their customers’ ideas on Twitter.

Threadless, graphic T-shirts manufacturer, use Twitter to update followers of company news.

BustedTees is another manufacturer of T-shirts to be found on Twitter.

Jewelry store Xenabeauty can be found on Twitter here.

Delight.com maintains quite an active Twitter account.

Toys

Toys”R”Us is a globally recognized toys retailer tweeting about company special offers and deals.

Home

HomeDepot’s spokesman tweets to provide “another way for customers to ask about their projects and our stores”.

Etsy, an online marketplace for home-made products, also has the corporate Twitter profile.

Books

Borders.com Twitter profile is updated by “Matt.”

Health

GHChealth maintain rather an active and popular Twitter profile.

Polar Electro tweets via rep Chris.

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