HAHN: How to avoid digging a financial hole during holidays
It is so easy to get caught up in the hunt and forget why an item you didn’t know existed 20 minutes before now feels like a necessary purchase.
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Black Friday store sales fall as Americans buy more online
A big reason for the declines is increased online shopping, as Americans hunt down deals on their smartphones, tablets and computers.
Cyber Monday still growing despite earlier online sales
Shoppers bought online at the heaviest rate ever Monday, according to research firm comScore Inc. The strong performance was in contrast to Black Friday weekend spending, which fell an estimated 2.9 percent.
Shoppers flood stores in bargain-hunting spree
Faced with smaller crowds of less confident consumers, as well as six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year, retailers are pouring on margin-eating discounts to grab market share.
HETRICK: Don’t just be thankful; this year thank and think of others
In a world overdosing on skepticism, cynicism, pessimism, and criticism…there are worse thigns than a month of thankful thinking.
Experts predict 20-percent growth in Cyber Monday shopping
This year’s Cyber Monday could be the biggest online shopping day of the year for the third year in a row. Indianapolis-based retailers The Finish Line and HHGregg are among those offering Cyber Monday specials.
Thanksgiving steals sales from Black Friday
Saturday's report from retail technology company ShopperTrak finds consumers spent $11.2 billion at stores across the U.S. That is down 1.8 percent from last year's total.
Ready, set, shop!
Before you blow the holiday budget on Midnight Madness deals and Tryptophan Thursday specials, independent shop owners want to make sure you know about Small Business Saturday.
Black Friday boosts car sales to best rate since ‘Clunkers’
U.S. consumers, who set records for retail purchases during Thanksgiving weekend, helped boost U.S. auto sales in November to what is likely to be their fastest pace in more than two years.
Shoppers scuffle on earlier-than-ever Black Friday
A shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargain-hunters started the madness known as Black Friday. In all, 152 million people are expected to shop this weekend in the U.S., and will account for about 12 percent of overall holiday revenue.
HICKS: Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The holiday season in the United States has morphed into a time of concentrated purchases.