Last time you went shopping and saw free samples, did you grab one? Chances are good that you did, and I bet you thought you were getting something for nothing. Well, the truth is that "free" isn ...

people love free food. Retailers, too, have their own reasons to love sampling, from the financial (samples have boosted sales in some cases by as much as 2,000 percent) to the behavioral (they ...

The samples make everything a little bit better,” said Natasha Fischer, who runs @traderjoeslist, an Instagram account and newsletter documenting the latest Trader Joe’s finds. Free samples ...

Not to mention, the free samples. To loyal Costco members, taking a tour through the store to try as many free samples as possible is a rite of retail passage. The amount of samples Costco has ...