Costco may be more crowded on the weekends, but there are usually more samples then. How, exactly, does Costco decide on which products to give out, though?

Many types of businesses use product samples to allow potential and prospective customers to experience their products in hopes of enticing them to buy. Restaurants, for example, might offer free ...

New York based company Influenster, is a product discovery website that pairs up with brands to send its community of social media influencers product samples in the form of "VoxBoxes". Its members ...

Amazon has deployed yet another strategy designed to stay fresh in the shopper’s mind — free, targeted samples delivered to their doorstep. The samples are “like Amazon’s product recommendations, but ...

Advertisers serve ads to try and sell products. But what if they skipped over the ad completely and instead just handed products straight to the consumer? That’s the idea behind Swish, a startup that ...