Do you remember being a little kid and bartering – maybe it was trading snacks at lunch, baseball cards, or even candy on Halloween. Swade is a mobile app that makes bartering possible, at scale, for ...

Amid economic uncertainty – and a desire to connect as we distance – bartering is experiencing an unprecedented rise. Could it stick around? London-based nurse Marjorie Dunne joined Barter United ...

Valerie Gates will work for food. She does it all the time. Standing in her Wellesley kitchen, the marketing expert, who doesn't cook much, reaps the harvest of a barter system she devised five months ...

Last week, we ordered a bunch of free samples and other free personal care items all by simply visiting Google.While we wait for those goods to arrive, we wanted to look at other free stuff out there, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stories abound of bartering during the Great Depression. From the doctor who got paid in chickens to the grocer who clothed his family by trading food for shoes, resourceful folks ...

Want a new purse? Maybe you can exchange that extra toaster you have lying around for a different bag. In today’s tough economy, bartering is becoming increasingly popular as people exchange goods and ...

Special to d.b.a. The concept of bartering predates currency, however currency isn’t as easy to come by these days and some business owners are seeing the benefit in trading their goods or services, ...

American stayed at home, but are moving again.Nicole Victoria was sitting on her porch in Cream Ridge, New Jersey, when a retired biochemist who lives across the way ambled over, clutching a dozen ...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought back the bartering system as neighbors are offering to trade necessities for items they can't buy in stores like toilet paper and hand sanitizer. "I made a pie for ...

When Toronto financial planner Shannon Simmons offered her expertise to a professional clown, it wasn't exactly business as usual. Simmons advised her new client to switch from a "couch fund" to a ...