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High-end retailers giving away thousands of dollars
How desperate are high-end retailers? They’re so hungry for customers this holiday season, they’re willing to literally give away thousands of dollars to shoppers who buy something from their Web […]
Electronics ruling Cyber Monday
While clothes and books were the big attractions for in-store shoppers on Black Friday weekend, Cyber Monday — so far — is all about consumer electronics. I spoke to Graham […]
More shoppers but spending on Black Friday weekend down
Individual spending during Black Friday weekend (the Friday, Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving) was down 8 percent this year to $343.31, or about $29 less than last year, according to […]
Black Friday bonanza: NRF predicts 134 million shoppers
The National Retail Federation is predicting up to 134 million people will shop this Friday, Saturday or Sunday — that’s higher than the 128 million people who planned to do […]
Holiday shopping hurdle No. 1: the parking lot
In no particular order some of my parking lot/garage pet peeves are: 1) Patiently waiting for a space only to have someone steal it from you. 2) Being stuck behind […]
Get ready for Thanksgiving Traffic Madness…
It’s hard to have thoughts of thanks (and giving) when you’re stuck in your cute little two-door, sandwiched between a minivan and a Suburban staring at traffic as far as […]
Cyber Monday, Schmyber Monday
With Cyber Monday coming up in less than two weeks, my inbox has started filling up with retail predictions, trends, spending forecasts — the works. But one release veered left […]
Not a charge-happy holiday?
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling released a survey this week that found that nearly seven in 10 consumers plan to pay cash for their holiday purchases this year. “Plan,” […]
Let’s keep those holiday lights burning
Keep those bright lights shining Ah, the lights of the holidays! Don’t you just love all those cheerful lights inside and outside houses? Don’t they cheer your spirit as you […]
There’s nowhere like Boise during the holidays
Why would you want to take a winter vacation in crummy old Pasadena or stale old Miami when you could whisk away to Boise, Idaho for the weekend? It sounds […]
This holiday season, it’s about the bare necessities
A couple weeks ago I e-mailed my sister to ask her what she wanted for Christmas — almost immediately the response came back: “a gift certificate to Trader Joe’s.” No, […]
Send us your holiday party picture
Sometimes an even bigger treat than the office holiday party itself are the pictures afterward. You know, when you get to tease a coworker who imbibed a little too much […]
