Retailers Get Holiday Wish: Last-Minute Shopping Surge

AP:

Just weeks ago, the holiday shopping season seemed headed for disaster. But in the waning hours before Christmas, the nation's retailers got their wish -- a last-minute surge of shopping that helped meet their modest sales goals, according to data released late Monday by research firm ShopperTrak RCT Corp.

And with post-Christmas shopping to come, some malls and stores were downright optimistic.

While consumers jammed stores at the start of the season in search of discounts and hot items such as Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console, a challenging economy prompted them to hold out until the end for bigger discounts.

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[1man1voicenovote]

How much Chinese crap is still on the shelves?

ALOT!

Thank you for BOYCOTTING COMMUNISM and the CAPITALISTS who SUPPORT COMMUNISM.

Poison-laced products from Communist China are being shoved down your throat by the CEOs who want to JUSTIFY MOVING YOUR JOBS AND FACTORIES to forced labor camps on the other side of the planet. That's why fuel demand has tripled.

PUNISH THEM! RETURN ALL CHINESE GIFTS NOW!
or...
Have another AQUA-DOT with your kool-aid!

PEACE ON EARTH!

P.S. Applejuice from China tastes like...