Holiday Shopping

Gift Ideas For Significant Others: 11 Suggestions From Huffington Post Readers

Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


1. I opt for something humorous. This year, my husband is getting red long johns and rock 'em sock 'em robots. 2. Something that the both of you can ...

Gift Ideas: 8 General Suggestions From Huffington Post Readers

Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


1. Experiences always beat out stuff. 2. Services, like I asked my husband to fix my old Schwinn Cruiser for my birthday. You can't buy that in a st...

Gift Ideas For Your Boss: 7 Suggestions From Huffington Post Readers

Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


1. Donation to a charity. 2. A bouquet of flowers. 3. A really nice houseplant like a philodendron that is easy to care for, or some native bulbs to...

Gift Ideas For Friends: 19 Suggestions From Huffington Post Readers

Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


1. Dinner at their favorite restaurant. 2. I give my friends small, silly goody bags and maybe a few other small gifts that center around whatever t...

Gift Ideas For Parents: 12 Suggestions From Huffington Post Readers

Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


1. A surprise paid-for, all-inclusive weekend away at a hotel to a place of their liking for a Christmas bash. 2. Gifts that they would appreciate gi...

Retailers' Discounts May Make For Worst U.S. Holiday Season In Six Years

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...

Many Retailers See Modest Crowds, Cautious Shoppers On Black Friday

The Boston Globe | Nicole C. Wong and Jenn Abelson | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business


Stores across the region opened their doors before dawn yesterday with mixed results: Deals on electronics apparently drew avid shoppers, especially a...

Black Friday Circuit City Hoax Ruffles Deal-Seeking Feathers

Black Friday Ad Hoaxes | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business


Black Friday ads have bargain hunters in a tizzy this week, but it was a Circuit City, Future and Best Buy hoax that ruffled the most feathers. A v...

On Cue, Shoppers Show Up

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Shoppers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, turned out in force Friday to grab early morning deals and hard-to-find...

Gift Ideas: 100 Pretty Fantastic Suggestions For Under $150

Refinery29.com | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style


Check out Refinery29's "100 under $150" gift guide....

Black Family Black Friday

Liz Black | Posted 12.28.2008 | Style


Liz Black

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.

Holiday Season May Already Be Over For Frantic Retailers

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — The holiday shopping season begins Friday with a blitz of early morning specials. For some merchants, though, it's practically over a...

Black Friday, Cyber Monday... Now "Green Tuesday?"

HuffPost | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green


It wouldn't be very green to follow up your sustainable Thanksgiving with a trip in the SUV to a big box store for the Black Friday deals. What's a ...

Black Friday Deals Could Lure Shoppers Back Online

Huffington Post | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business


In a year with plunging consumer confidence and investments gone sour, it's hard to know what to expect of Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving ...

Holiday Shopping Price Wars Move Online

New York Times | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRAD STONE | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO -- As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts this holiday season, a similar an...

Cancel All Gifts! Sorry, But No One Gets Anything This Year

Vicky Ward | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style


Vicky Ward

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.

Circuit City Posts Unexpected Profit After Job Cuts

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


RICHMOND, Va. — Struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter profit, as cost cutt...

Stocks Close Flat After Erratic Trading Week

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...

Retailers Keep Slashing Prices To Draw Post-Holiday Bump

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The nation's retailers slashed prices further Wednesday in hopes that a post-Christmas shopping rush will salvage holiday sales that, so far, have fal...

Retailers Usher In Post-Christmas Business

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Retailers ushered in the post-Christmas shopping season Wednesday by opening earlier than ever and slashing prices, with hopes that bargain hunters an...

Retailers Get Holiday Wish: Last-Minute Shopping Surge

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...

The Shoppers Who Saved Christmas

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...

Retailers Hope For Strong Final Push

Wall Street Journal | Richard Gibson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The final weekend of the holiday shopping season will likely bring a sigh of relief from many retailers who feared that sales would be weak. Although...

Coach, Best Buy Lure Shoppers With Instant Checkout

Bloomberg | Cotton Timberlake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


U.S. retailers, confronting what may be the worst holiday-sales season in five years, are trying to get shoppers out of their stores. The FAO Schwarz...

The Fix Finder: 24 Last-Minute Gift Ideas That Will Save Your...

Michele Wissot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Michele Wissot

The date is Friday, December 14, 2007. Do you know what that means? If you're already done with your holiday shopping, then you're probably scheduli...