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What America Got For Christmas

Reverend Billy | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Local Politics, Economy, Christmas, Holiday Season, Shopping, Consumer Economy, Holiday Season Commentary, Retail, Big Box Stores, Bartering, Retail Bubble, Retail Sales, Local Economies, Chain Stores, Commercial Christmas, Spending Less, Trading, Living News
Reverend Billy

So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.

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Stores cut prices to entice post-holiday shoppers

AP | LAUREN SHEPHERD | Posted 01.26.2009 | 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 01.26.2009 | 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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BLACK FRIDAY 2: Stores Desperate To Salvage Holiday Sales

Huffington Post | Posted 01.26.2009 | 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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Holiday Retail Sales Plummet Despite Price-Slashing

Wall Street Journal | ANN ZIMMERMAN, JENNIFER SARANOW and MIGUEL BUSTILLO | Posted 01.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Retail Sales, US Shopping, US Economy, Sales, Shopping, Spending, Business News

Price-slashing failed to rescue a bleak holiday season for beleaguered retailers, as sales plunged across most categories on shrinking consumer spendi...

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Retailers Hoping For A Merely "Bad" Holiday Sales Season

Wall Street Journal | SCOTT PATTERSON | Posted 01.24.2009 | 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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Hipster QVC, the Future of E-Commerce?

Pam Bristow | Posted 01.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Pam Bristow, Geberation Y, Cnn, Consumer Confidence, Retail, Retail Sales, Recession, Fashion, Consumer Spending, Honeyshed, Style News
Pam Bristow

Shopping on Honeyshed is a unique consumption experience. Equal parts infomercial, editorial, and music video, the sales format takes its cues from social networking sites.

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Retail Sales, Wholesale Prices Fell Again In November

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Retail Sales, Unemployment, Shopping, Economy, Wholesale Prices, November, Personal Finance, Business News

WASHINGTON — Signs that the recession will be long and severe mounted Friday with a fresh round of bad economic news, including plunging sales f...

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"Instead Of Sales Being Miserable They Are Just Terrible"

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Personal Finance, Retail Sales, Finance, Economy, Business News

NEW YORK — Retailers who suffered through a miserable November _ despite a surge in sales the day after Thanksgiving _ are worried that the usua...

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Black Friday Sales Up, But Not A Good Barometer

CNNMoney.com | Paul R. La Monica | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, National Retail Federation, Black Friday Shopping, Business, Retail Sales, Black Friday, Business News

Happy Cyber Monday! If the crowds on Black Friday were any indication, it looks like consumers will be busy surfing the Web for deep discounts as well...

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Wal-Mart Stampede: And So This is Christmas

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Christmas, Financial Crisis, Commercialism, Retail Sales, Materialism, Shopping, Black Friday, Wal-Mart Stampede, Style News
Jeannie Ralston

When I told my husband about the worker trampled by frenzied Wal-Mart shoppers on Friday morning, he thought it was a joke.

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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

Read More: Retailers, Retail Sales, Holiday Shopping, Black Friday, Discount, Holiday Shopping Season, US Economy, Business News

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...

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Empty Wallets And Empty Malls Leave Retailers Desperate

Nour Akkad | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style

Read More: Retailers, Business News, Retail Employees, Financial Crisis, Retail Sales, Style, Consumer Spending, Customer Service, Black Friday, Style News
Nour Akkad

Along with the rest of us, salespersons are afraid of losing their jobs and making ends meet. Retail workers still have to make a living under these harsh conditions and desperate times are definitely calling for desperate measures.

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A Kick in the Career: Bailout, Bailout, Who's Got the Bailout?

Thomas Stern | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Retail Sales, Bailout, Multinational Corporations, Utopian, Circuit City Bankruptcy, Citigroup, Business News
Thomas Stern

It might be time for the government to stop gnashing their teeth about which multinational bank should get the bailout package, and simply throw the cash at the retail sector.

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Holiday outlook turns grimmer after dismal October

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Finance, Financial Crisis, Consumer Spending, Retail Sales, Business News

NEW YORK — Retailers suffered through the weakest October in at least 39 years, despite frenzied price cutting as they desperately try to pull i...

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Retail Sales Slip In Sign Of Economic Downshift

New York Times | Michael M. Grynbaum | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Downturn, Depression, Retail Sales, Finance, Economy, Personal Finance, Economic Downshift, Recession, Business News

Retail sales fell sharply in September as consumers shunned department stores, auto showrooms and shopping malls, ratcheting back spending for a third...

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Stocks plunge anew as data points to recession

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Personal Finance, Retail Sales, Depression, Recession, Economic Slowdown, Stocks, Economy, Debt, Business News

NEW YORK — Investors agonizing over a faltering economy sent the stock market plunging all over again Wednesday after a stream of disheartening ...

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A World Where Money Grows On Trees?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Car Sales, U.S. Economy, Digital Economy, Digerati, Retail Sales, Internet Sales, Forrester Research, Amazon, Economy, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

In the virtual universe, a cornucopia of colorful opportunities await!

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More Economists Agree We Are In A Recession

Wall Street Journal | PHIL IZZO, SUDEEP REDDY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Fed Funds, Recession Fears, Commerce Department, U.S. Economy, Recession, Retail Sales, Recession Watch, Business News

Economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey are increasingly certain the U.S. has slid into recession, a view reinforced by new da...

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Sales, Dollar Plunge; Oil Soars

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Retail Sales, Consumerism, Weak Sales, Retail, Retail Sales, Shopping, Weak Dollar, Recession Fears, U.S. Consumers, Commerce Department, Recession, Credit Crunch, Consumers, Mall Sales, Malls, Business News

WASHINGTON — Oil hit a record high, the dollar sank again, and consumers stopped buying pretty much everything. Stocks kept gyrating, too, on T...

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Shoppers Snap Up Bargain, Avoid Luxe Goods

Los Angeles Times | Leslie Earnest | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Gas Prices, Discount Shopping, Retail, Wal-Mart, Shopping, Retail Sales, BJ Wholesale, Recession, Costco, Business News

Retail sales rose more than expected in February as shoppers headed to discounters in search of bargains. But with Americans in no mood to splurge, lu...

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US Retail Sales Rebound; Consumers Splurge On Cars, Clothes

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Retail Sales, U.S. Economy, Retail Sales, Consumer Spending, Business News

WASHINGTON — Retail sales posted a surprising rebound in January following a dismal December, although much of the strength reflected rising gas...

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Macy's To Shutter 9 Stores, Cut 900 Jobs

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: May Co, Retail Industry, Weak Retail Environment, Underperforming Stores, Retail Sales, Macy's, Department Stores, Business News

Department-store operator Macy's Inc. on Friday said it will shutter nine underperforming stores, which collectively employ nearly 900 staffers, the l...

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Stocks End Flat After Uneven Sales News

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Target, Wall Street, Retail Sales, Stocks, Business News

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...

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Stocks Fall After Target Announces Dip In Sales

AP | LAUREN VILLAGRAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: International Council of Shopping Centers, Target, Retail Sales, Wall Street, Holiday Gift Cards, Business News

Stocks opened moderately lower Wednesday as investors returned from the holiday to news of weaker-than-expected retail sales. The International Counc...

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