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Holiday Shopping

Paul Blart: Mall Cop. More Real Than Reviewers

Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rob Schneider, Holiday Shopping, Entertainment, Kevin James, Economy, The New York Times, New York Times, Malls, Shopping Mall, Adam Sandler, Christmas Shopping, Shopping Malls, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Film, Movies, Entertainment News
Douglas MacKinnon

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.

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Horrific Holiday Season Fallout Begins

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Retail, Holiday Season, Holiday Shopping, Business News

NEW YORK — The fallout from the horrific holiday season for retailers has begun, with the operator of an online toy seller filing for bankruptcy...

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A Credit Crunch Christmas: Lessons for Next Year

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Christmas Shopping Season, Economic Downturn, Economy, Credit Crunch, Christmas Shopping, Recession, Holidays, Holiday Shopping, Unemployment, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

I wondered how the six kiddies in my family would take their first - but certainly not last - credit crunch Christmas.

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Haggling My Way Through the Blues

Vicky Ward | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style

Read More: Layoffs, Holiday Shopping, Society, Economy, Economic Crisis, Style News
Vicky Ward

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.

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236.com: Retailers To Consumers: "Thanks For Nothing, Jerks!"

236.com | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Consumers, Holiday Shopping, Shopping, 236.Com, Business News

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...

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Stores cut prices to entice post-holiday shoppers

AP | LAUREN SHEPHERD | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Bargains, Sales, After Christmas Shopping, Retail Sales, Holiday Shopping, Shopping, Christmas Shopping, Portland Oregon, Business News

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...

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BLACK FRIDAY II Extreme Measures: JC Penney Offered Wake-Up Calls!

Wall Street Journal | ANN ZIMMERMAN, JENNIFER SARANOW and MIGUEL BUSTILLO | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Holiday Shopping, Black Friday 2 Deals, Retail Sales, Black Friday 2 Sales, JC Peney, Black Friday 2, Holiday Sales, JC Penney Wake-Up Calls, Business News

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...

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Amazon.com's Holiday Season Turns Out Cheery

247wallst.com | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Amazon.com, Holiday Sales, Holiday Shopping, Economy, Business News

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 ...

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BLACK FRIDAY 2: Stores Desperate To Salvage Holiday Sales

Huffington Post | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Retail Sales, Holiday Sales, Holiday Shopping, Black Friday 2 Sales, Black Friday 2, Black Friday 2 Deals, Business News

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 ...

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Nation's Stores Have Little To Celebrate, Save Being Alive

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Holiday Shopping, Finance, Economy, Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Personal Finance, Business News

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...

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Shipping Backlog Causes FedEx To Open For Christmas

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Christmas, Fedex, Fedex Open on Christmas, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Shipping, Oregon, Business News

ATLANTA — Severe weather across the U.S. has caused a delivery backlog at FedEx Corp., prompting the shipping company to take the extraordinary ...

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Retailers Hoping For A Merely "Bad" Holiday Sales Season

Wall Street Journal | SCOTT PATTERSON | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Retail Sales, Holiday Sales Season, Holiday Shopping, Economy, Business News

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....

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Shopping and Overeating

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Shopaholic, Weight Loss, Brain, Overeating, Shopping, Health, Healthy Eating, Holiday Shopping, Too Much Food, Mindfulness, Food, Buying Power, Spending Money, Buying, Living News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

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.

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Come out of the Literary Closet: Buy *Yourself* a Kids' Book this Holiday

Joanne Rendell | Posted 12.22.2008 | Style

Read More: Literature, Academic News, Holiday Gifts, Children's Books, Gifts for Yourself, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Spirit, Kids, Shopping, Books, Gifts, Self-Indulgence, Kids' Books, Reading, Style News
Joanne Rendell

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.

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Solar-Powered Latkes: Happy Hannukah!

Los Angeles Times | Ari B. Bloomekatz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green Hannukah, Hannukah, Green Living, Holiday Shopping, Latkes, Green News

Some Jewish communities throughout the Southland celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with a twist Sunday, as one group cooked a giant potato latke ...

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Free Fall: December 2008.

Giles Slade | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Madoff, Recession 2008, The Internet, Economic Bloggers, Hanukkah, Holiday Shopping, Blagojevich, Selling Senate Seat, Economic Crisis, Holiday Season Commentary, Production, Merry Christmas, Christmas Commentary, Recession, Layoffs, Chanukah, Job Cuts, Economic Free Fall, Political Bloggers, Recession Fears, Political Corruption, Financial Crisis, Political Bribes, Financial Corruption, Holiday Sales, Business News
Giles Slade

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.

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Online Holiday Sales Down 1 Percent

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Online Sales, Holiday Shopping, Economy, Amazon.com, Business News

What are people buying on Amazon (AMZN) and other electronic storefronts? Fewer flat screen TVs, Comscore says, either because promotional discounts h...

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Bleak Holiday Shopping Season For Local Retailers

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Crate and Barrel, Chicagor Retail Forecast, Retail Sales, Holiday Shopping Season, Recession, Christmas Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Chicago Retail Sales, Chicago News

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...

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A Naughty Little Parody

Staar | Posted 12.20.2008 | Style

Read More: Staar, Holiday Shopping, Shopping, Holiday Commentary, Style News
Staar

Santa baby that Cadillac is falling apart, won't start/ A gulf stream five would be smart/ Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.

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Have Yourself A Tacky Little Xmas: 50 Ways To Be Totally Tasteless This Holiday Season

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Holiday Nightmares, Tacky, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, Holiday Hell, Christmas, Hannukah, Home for the Holidays, Holiday Season Commentary, Style News
Pamela Redmond Satran

Looking to have a tacky Christmas season? At the office party, grind with the cute intern. Write and perform your own holiday rap. Or, hire a dwarf to dress as an elf at your party.

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Mexicans Stream Across Border, Save Retail In Tucson

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Retailers, Christmas Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Economic Recession, Mexican Shoppers, Mexico, Christmas, Recession Fears, Tucson, Nogales, Arizona, BORDER ISSUES, Recession, Style News
Marlene H. Phillips

While retailers across the country struggle to survive some shops in Tucson are counting their blessings in the form of pesos.

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10 Whimsical, Recession-Proof Holiday Gift Ideas

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Vogue, Holidays, William Donovan, Presents, Christmas, Heirlooms, Lesley M. M. Blume, Gifts, Recession, Family, Holiday Shopping, Christmas Ideas, Gift Ideas, Kennedy, Obama, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roosevelt, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

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...

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10 Naughty Gifts For Nice People

pipeline.refinery29.com | Karen Day | Posted 12.16.2008 | Style

Read More: Holiday Shopping, Gift Ideas, Holiday Gift, Style News

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...

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Defining The Holidays By More Than Just The Economy

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Blackberry, Holidays, Depression, Economy, Ice Skating, Walks, Childhood, Paris, Skiing, Central Park, Marche D;aligre, Ex-Pat, Cooking, Christmas, World War II, Food, Holiday Shopping, Rockafeller Center, Outdoor Activities, Economic Crisis, Holiday Cookies, Christmas Traditions, Christmas Commentary, Houston, Bank Closure, Ex-Pat Christmas, Christmas in Paris, Financial Crisis, Seattle, Living News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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Holiday Shopping Cutbacks: Who's Not Making Your List This Year?

Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Personal Finance, Holiday Shopping, Finance, Economy, Business News

Reports abound that the holiday shopping season is looking bleak. So we'd have to guess that people will be cutting back somehow. Maybe it's fewer gif...

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