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November 6, 2017

Merry Christmas, Walmart, from your Friends at Amazon

In an early round of what is sure to be a slugfest, Amazon has decided to use its own warchest this holiday season to discount the price of some products sold by both companies. You can read about it here. But the practice reportedly has upset third-party vendors who don’t want to see outside discounts applied to their products without permission. Why? My guess is it dawned on them a long […]
March 28, 2017

Walmart Remains the Underdog in the Future of Retailing

See photo at right. Walmart, it’s 2017. Why? While you ponder why America’s largest bricks and mortar retailer is still selling old style black cassette recorders, consider this pic a visual metaphor for the uphill battle the Arkansas-based company faces as it battles with Amazon. I needed to pick up a bluetooth speaker for work yesterday over lunch. My first stop was to our North 27th Street Radio Shack. They were […]
January 5, 2017

What Used to be Great Isn’t Good Enough Anymore

At Nebraska Digital, we’ve been designing and hosting web sites with WordPress since 2004. A lot has changed, but on the server side, an awful lot has stayed the same. All of that changed in 2016 as we worked to upgrade our WordPress hosting platform. We still think WordPress is the greatest content management system in the world. But the truth is, it’s become more resource hungry than ever before. […]
August 28, 2018

WooCommerce Spee-Dee Extension Fixed

A lot of our small business customers love the Spee-Dee Delivery Service. Problem is that the official Spee-Dee Shipping extension sold on WooCommerce.com for $79 hasn’t kept pace with the 3.X versions of WooCommerce. The constant errors have been a pain on many of our sites, causing error logs to grow and causing at least one of our busy ecommerce sites to crash periodically. After contacting the folks at Woo […]