Bleak Holiday Shopping Season For Local Retailers
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...
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...
Reverend Billy | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style
Last night, Sunday the 30th, the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir embarked in vans and a pace car with a lawyer -- journeying to the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, Long Island -- for a vigil and songfest.
Bloomberg | Beth Jinks and Allison Abell Schwartz | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
U.S. retailers that lowered prices as much as 70 percent on the day after Thanksgiving may see sales eroded by steeper price cuts in what may be the w...
Justin Krebs | Posted 12.26.2008 | Style
In every community, there are these businesses -- and we should support them. But first, we have to learn about them. So, which are your favorites?
New York Times | LAURIE J. FLYNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, had a lot of good news in its financial report Wednesday, but it was overshadowed by just a small bit of bad ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
An already weak holiday shopping season turned out to be even worse than expected for many of the nation's retailers, who reported Thursday they had d...
AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Stocks finished an erratic week narrowly mixed Friday after a government report of a steep decline in new home sales stirred concerns that weakness in...
New York Times | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
American consumers, uneasy about the economy and unimpressed by the merchandise in stores, delivered the bleak holiday shopping season retailers had e...
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...
Danny Seo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
There's so much talk right now about having a green Christmas. There's one camp that says don't buy anything, skip the malls, forget presents. Bah-H...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
U.S. online shoppers spent a record $733 million in a single day on "Cyber Monday," according to market research firm comScore. Cyber Monday is the f...
Boston Globe | Jenn Abelson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Hours after her flight from Dublin landed in Boston on Thanksgiving, Alice Kinsella headed in a white van with a dozen relatives and friends to Wrenth...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 01.21.2009 | Chicago