Business
A sale, or commerce if you will, occurs when a willing buyer and a willing seller reach agreement on a price for a good or service and then that price is paid from the buyer to the seller to mark the transaction. While we don’t always think of it in that term, transactions like this…
Over the past several weeks I’ve had several instances which caused me to wonder “What is going to happen to rural America’s home town, home-owned, funeral homes.” Again, it has not been one thing, but a string of instances that have made me wonder about that. For instance, I know of firms in my state…
Last week I saw an article about the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act that has passed both houses of the California legislature and is awaiting a signature by Governor Gavin Newsome to make it a law. Part of what that law would do is create a 10-person fast-food council with employee and…
New products and services used by the American public seem to start as fads, become a trend, and then, those with staying power evolve into a tradition of life. Over the last few days I’ve noticed a couple of products that have either followed that road map or may be on their way to dissolving. …
Labor Day means a lot of different things to many people. It might mean the end of the Summer, Back-to-School time, the start of football season, or the start of the political campaign season. For me, however, when I ran my funeral business, it was always the funeral home yearly check-up time. You see, after…
At Funeral Director Daily we are very fortunate that we have so many Death Care profession industry experts that read our material. And, we are also very thankful that many of them will offer their expertise to our readers if asked. Learning what they know can help progressive funeral homes increase their own business. Today,…
Over the years I’ve heard from many consumers that their choice for a cremation disposition had nothing to do with price. Even though I heard that often, and believed the people that told me that, as a funeral professional it was always hard to fathom when it seemed that everywhere you turned you saw cremations…
Funeral directors come with all kinds of interests and backgrounds. What makes them so interesting is the diverse backgrounds, cultures, and interests that are found among them. But the good ones all have the commonality of becoming ambassadors for the profession simply by plying their trade to humanity. Today, Funeral Director Daily tells you about…
Earlier this summer we brought you this article which brought information that parent company Hillenbrand Industries was contemplating “strategic alternatives” for its Batesville division. Last week Forbes contributing writer Jim Osman expressed in this article his opinion that the Batesville division should be “spun-off” from Hillenbrand in order to unlock “shareholder value”. Osman contends that…
There has been some indications, and a lot of hope, that the inflation that we have is starting to subside. While we are now in the 3rd Quarter of 2022, Wal-Mart recently posted their results for the 2nd Quarter of the year. To be honest, Wal-Mart’s profit reached $5.15 billion for the quarter which beat…
