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It is easy to go through several hundred New York dollars' worth of candy by the time the crowd tapers off on our street. We're looking forward to seeing Michael Jackson again and again.
Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 02.28.2009 | Entertainment
How dare we derive pleasure from a movie that elitist reviewers writing for a minute collection of fellow elitists have deemed prosaic, unimaginative, and beneath them.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago
I wondered how the six kiddies in my family would take their first - but certainly not last - credit crunch Christmas.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 01.28.2009 | Living
Standing in the nearly empty mall observing the lack of buying interest, I wondered if maybe the American way of measuring status by stuff and price tag is getting turned upside down.
AP | LAUREN SHEPHERD | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
Two hours before the doors were set to open Friday morning, a Miami-area Wal-Mart parking lot was full of cars _ and possibility. But in a Christmas s...
nytimes.com | IAN URBINA and SEAN D. HAMILL | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
Richard R. Johnson is the first to admit it was a bad idea. Recently laid off from a job building trailers in Elkhart, Ind., Mr. Johnson came up a...
Eric Kuhn | Posted 01.22.2009 | Entertainment
Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer? I've got for you three interviews with authors who recently published fictional novels with political overtones.
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 01.21.2009 | Chicago
With Christmas just a few days away, the holiday shopping season is bearing out predictions that it will be the worst in decades. Local retailers suc...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style
While retailers across the country struggle to survive some shops in Tucson are counting their blessings in the form of pesos.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living
Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.
Neil Zevnik | Posted 01.07.2009 | Style
You want to get some killer jewelry as the perfect Christmas gift, but another anonymous, mass-produced bit of sparkle from the mall doesn't fit the bill anymore. May I suggest vintage costume jewelry?
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green
Perhaps you have already had the chance to take a look at our green gift guide, but consider these other options, too. Happily, eco-friendly gift are ...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
Count your blessings. And when you're done counting them, say a prayer for the less fortunate: the hungry, the homeless, the lonely, the destitute and the sick.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
Recycling wrapping paper and cards can drastically reduce your holiday waste and generate a big dose of nostalgia.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living
Competition is so endemic to our culture, consumption has become a competitive sport. Am I the only one who thinks something is out of whack here? Remember the mortgage mess we're in?
Dwayne Raymond | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style
This morning the news features stories of a stressed economy, but that takes second place to the smashing in of a Wal-Mart door by gluttonous Americans seeking deals on X-Box toys.
Anita Thompson | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living
I'm not a sociologist or a psychologist, but can anyone explain how you can continue to shop after a man has just been trampled to death?
Liz Black | Posted 12.28.2008 | Style
For every Thanksgiving day that I've stuffed my face, there has been a five am wake-up call provided by my mother in order to begin the wonderfully stressful day of Black Friday shopping.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2008 | Style
'Tis the season to stress out about holiday shopping, and we need your help. Please take a moment to fill out the Survey Monkey form below with your b...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
Warning to anxious retailers -- make sure you don't shy away from the using word "Christmas" in your crass annual attempt to pander to all those secular customers.
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
In a naked effort to make us forget that we are living in an economic meltdown, the stores are full of Christmas trees and fairy lights.
Mike Doyle | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago
Macy's State Street has cost-cut its Chicago Loop holiday windows and Christmas tree so deeply this year, it isn't worth bothering to make that time-honored family foray downtown to see them.
USA Today | Jaybe O'Donnell | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at some of the nation's stores, as retailers struggle to find ways to make shoppers forget about their bat...
AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Stocks finished largely flat Wednesday as investors returned from the Christmas holiday to news of weaker-than-expected retail sales. A jump in oil pr...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Just weeks ago, the holiday shopping season seemed headed for disaster. But in the waning hours before Christmas, the nation's retailers got their wis...
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Joe Peyronnin | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York