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submitted by Lisa 1 week 1 day 10 hours ago
Even though recent economic reports have shown sharp downturns in Americans' spending, some consumer experts believe that deep discounts and other buying incentives will whittle away at the willpower of those hoping to curb their holiday shopping habit.
"This is going to be the year of shopping,"...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 18 hours 38 minutes ago
While the deals might not be as OMG awesome as Black Friday, there's a lot to be said for its nerdier brother Cyber Monday, when online retailers unleash their best bargains of the season. Mainly, it's not as utterly horrible: You can do everything from your...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 2 days 15 hours 2 minutes ago
Call it the Anti-Mall.
The tree-lined stretch of College Avenue heading south from the Rockridge BART station in Oakland is a shopping mecca for miles around. But no hordes of desperate customers lined up for steep discounts on Friday.
In this shrinking economy, the small, independently owned shops...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 8 hours 39 minutes ago
With tough economic times casting a pall over the holiday season, retailers are dusting off a ghost of Christmases past: the layaway plan. Sears Holdings Co., the parent company of both Sears and Kmart stores, started offering layaway at Sears after nearly a...
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 days 12 hours 38 minutes ago
Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is not something you jump into without a plan. If you are shopping or getting ready to shop, make sure you have all the info you need by first checking out our Black Friday survival guide, as...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 days 17 hours 38 minutes ago
digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Ultimate_Black_Friday_Survival_Guide'; Black Friday is always big, but this year promises to be bigger and messier than ever because of the economic crisis. October saw a record decline in sales for retailers. Several big companies barely survived, while...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 days 23 hours 38 minutes ago
You know the economic squeeze is on when three girls barely old enough to drive are pulling adult-size bargain maneuvers on Black Friday at King of Prussia Mall.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 days 11 hours 39 minutes ago
Many of the nation's stores are reporting crowds for the traditional start of the holiday shopping season that are as least as large as last year. But deep discounting and tempered buying could result in a sluggish start to the season, which was already expected to...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 days 21 hours 39 minutes ago
While many Washingtonians were sleeping off their turkey feasts overnight, thousands of others jammed parking lots and lined up on city streets this morning eager for the next round of holiday consumption: shopping. In what has become a day-after-Thanksgiving tradition, many stores opened in the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 21 hours 38 minutes ago
Sweater from the mall? Bor-ing. Another DVD? Maybe not. Step up your gift-giving game this holiday season and shoot for "Yippees!" instead of yawns. Take advantage of what this city's got in droves. Tourists? No, but you're on the right track. Think museums. While the...(more)
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