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NEW YORK — Stores are turning back the clock, conjuring images of hearth and home as they stock their holiday merchandise. Retailers hope embra...
The Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham | Posted 09.29.2009 | Books
Will digital books catch fire this holiday? According to an online survey, 1 in 5 shoppers said they planned to buy an electronic book reader such as ...
searchengineland.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology
In the run-up to the holidays, there are several concrete SEM strategies you can implement right now to make maximize your revenue from Black Friday a...
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.
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The fallout from the horrific holiday season for retailers has begun, with the operator of an online toy seller filing for bankruptcy...
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.
Vicky Ward | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style
It's OK to drink, smoke or dope (in moderation). Pot is appearing at the dinner table and no one blanches. In fact if you don't seem like a victim of stress, then you're the one to worry about.
236.com | Posted 01.27.2009 | Business
Dammit shoppers, you're ruining Christmas! Terrified of how low this Christmas season's sales might turn out to be, retailers have been slashing price...
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...
Wall Street Journal | ANN ZIMMERMAN, JENNIFER SARANOW and MIGUEL BUSTILLO | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
J.C. Penney Co. is offering free wake-up calls to rouse department-store shoppers at 5:30 a.m. Friday. From the time the store opens until 1 p.m., the...
247wallst.com | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
To the amazement of Wall St., Amazon today said it had "its best holiday ever". In the firm's statement it said "Amazon announced the 2008 holiday ...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
Holiday shopping is way down in some areas as shoppers grapple with a weak economy and face potential layoffs and work hour cutbacks. The result is ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 01.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — After limping through a holiday season expected to be the worst in decades, the nation's stores made it to Christmas with little to c...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business
ATLANTA — Severe weather across the U.S. has caused a delivery backlog at FedEx Corp., prompting the shipping company to take the extraordinary ...
Wall Street Journal | SCOTT PATTERSON | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business
For years, one of the more common descriptions of the holiday sales season was "good, not great." This year, the mantra may be "bad, but not doomsday....
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
If only there were a way to immediately link the immediate pleasure of downing that pint of Cherry Garcia with the distant pain of feeling like a lard ass.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style
Kids' fiction unleashes our long-ago dampened imaginations, so take a break from that Salman Rushdie book you're reading, and treat your mind to a kids book this holiday.
Los Angeles Times | Ari B. Bloomekatz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green
Some Jewish communities throughout the Southland celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with a twist Sunday, as one group cooked a giant potato latke ...
Giles Slade | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Here, at the end of the Bush years, the bottom has suddenly dropped out of the world and Americans are in mid-fall, struggling to stay upright and wondering when it will end.
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
What are people buying on Amazon (AMZN) and other electronic storefronts? Fewer flat screen TVs, Comscore says, either because promotional discounts h...
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.
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style
If there's a silver lining to this recession, it may be that Americans are less willing to buy tons of expensive crap for each other during the holida...
pipeline.refinery29.com | Karen Day | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style
Despite how many times you rescued kittens or helped a little old lady cross the street this year, we think everyone has a naughty side, and Santa's n...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.15.2009 | Living
Turn the TV off during the next few weeks, don't check your email, and lose the Blackberry. Take a few days off and have some real vacation time.
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AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 10.05.2009 | Style