Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Getting Ready to Write a Story

The topic I'm going to go with is the one about every store having their own credit cards and if it's better to maybe just have one Visa card that can do it all.
I would start off by going to a handful of stores (ex: Meijer, Best Buy, Rodgers and Hollands, Maurices, and Victoria's Secret) and getting information on opening credit cards there. All of these stores are different in their own way and it is possible that they have different rates. I would also try going to Rodgers and Hollands and ask the staff questions about their card (ex: on average how many people open a card to buy merchandise? is it usually on expensive jewlery?). It would also be interesting to be able to find people that do have mulitple cards and talk to them about why they chose to have many cards instead of one, and how do they decide what stores they own cards to.
A problem i could have with this story is that it could be too long to publish in a newspaper, but it could be good for a financial magazine.

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