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Retailers See Best Holiday Shopping Season Since 2007
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Dec. 24) -- Holiday procrastinators are preparing to zoom through picked-over stores, grabbing discounted sweaters and can't-go-wrong gift cards. If they can get a parking spot, that is. But you won't hear retailers complaining. For stores, this 11th-hour dash caps the best holiday season since 2007, and possibly the best ever. With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, Friday is a holiday for most U.S. workers. That allowed shoppers to hit the stores first thing in the morning. "I'm calling it Fantastic Friday, because I really do think it's going to be one of the busiest ...
CoalGram: A Last Minute Gift Idea For the NFL Player in Your Life
By Tom Lorenzo - AOL NewsWhat gift can you possibly get the NFL player in your life who has everything? You've done your Christmas shopping. Bought your wife or girlfriend (or both) a toilet mug and it's now time to kick back and enjoy the holidays, right? Not so fast! What about Dan Carpenter? Did you get him a gift? Remember when he missed four field goals against the Bills in Week 15, ending any hope of the Dolphins making the playoffs and making it so you were knocked out of your fantasy football playoffs by a kicker? Remember that? What can you possibly give Dan Carpenter this holiday season to show just how ...
A 'Beer Beard,' Really? Prank Gift Boxes Spice Up Christmas
By Monica Garske - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- There's nothing like watching a loved one open a gift on Christmas -- especially when that gift is wrapped in a ridiculous prank box that makes them squirm with awkwardness. That's the idea behind Prank Packs, a line of full-color fake gift boxes that appear to be holding some sort of weird item such as a "Beer Beard" -- a slip-on beard that discretely dispenses booze into the mouth of the wearer -- or an "iArm" -- a handy forearm mount that can hold an iPad or multiple remote controls for tech geeks on the go. The point is to wrap someone's real present inside the bizarre boxes ...
Cyber Monday Blowout: $1 Billion in Sales for First Time
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- If the office seemed a little slow on Monday, now you know why. Online shoppers spent $1.028 billion on Cyber Monday with half of all orders flowing in from work computers, according to the digital marketplace analysts comScore. That's the first time Cyber Monday sales have reached the billion-dollar threshold, according to CNN. The figure represents a 16 percent increase from last year's Cyber Monday and significantly outshines the $648 million consumers spent on Black Friday this year, according to comScore's numbers. What's more, according to comScore, the Monday after ...
Black Friday Shoppers Hope Early Bird Gets the Worm
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(Nov. 26) -- Bargain shoppers, braving rain or frigid weather, crowded the nation's stores and malls in the wee hours of the night to get their hands on deals from TVs to toys on Black Friday. In a bid to grab shoppers earlier on the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, a number of stores including Old Navy, Toys R Us and Sears opened on Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday. Toys R Us was counting on getting an extra boost by opening 24 hours straight, starting at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Patricia Lopez, 32, a receptionist from Queens, N.Y., was in line at the Toys R Us in New York's ...
An Ungifter's Guide to Black Friday
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyBefore you haul yourself to the shopping mall for the American ritual known as Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving, when retail merchants leap out of the red ink and into the black), consider giving yourself a little holiday gift. Don't go. ...
The New Black Friday Safety Protocols, Explained
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- The unbridled success of Black Friday retail promotions has inspired a second tradition: gaping at the casualty manifests rolling in on the days that follow. After a temporary Walmart worker was trampled to death last year in Valley Stream, N.Y., the retail industry and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) took the unprecedented step of developing procedural guidelines to keep any more bargain hunters from being trampled, punched, gashed, bitten, kicked, maimed, tackled or shot as they ring in the official start of the Yuletide season. Some of these rules seem ...
Holiday Shoppers Go Cuckoo for Zhu Zhus
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- A robotic hamster is the gift most likely to cause a Black Friday stampede this year. Zhu Zhu Pets have been universally declared the hottest and hardest-to-get toy of this holiday season. Shipments of the pink-nosed critters sell out within hours of arrival at stores. "It reminds me of the Furby craze back in the late '90s," said Jim Silver, editor-in-chief of TimetoPlayMag.com. "People are actually camping out at the stores waiting for deliveries." The interactive, animatronic fuzzballs move around unpredictably and make cute sounds, just like the real rodents but without ...
What Weak Economy? Post-Thanksgiving Sales Up
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Christmas shopping season got off to a strong start on Friday, despite the weak economy, according to preliminary numbers compiled by ShopperTrak RCT, which tracks sales at 50,000 retailers nationwide. Sales for Friday totaled $10.6 billion, three percent ahead of last year. Many shoppers took advantage of deep discounts offered by stores, which were anticipating a slower than normal sales day. The one-day gain could be an indication that consumers will be willing to open their pocketbooks, largely closed since mid-September, and spend a little during the holiday season.American consumers ...
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