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When a new shipment of Diane Von Furstenberg apparel arrives, Mary Liz Lehman gets on the phone to call her regulars. It's just one of the personal touches that has helped Lehman distinguish her apparel and accessories store, Perchance Boutique, at 3512...
Tags: Peter Gill, Mary Liz Lehman, Albert Karoll, Brad Wilson, Chicago, Supply chain management, Online shopping, allnews, Business Finance, Christmas and holiday season, Merchandising, Inventory, Retailing
Many hope that an estimated 134 million Americans shopping over the long Thanksgiving weekend will put retailers in the black, but consumers plan to spend an average of $682.74, or 3.2 percent less on holiday-related shopping than last year, according...
Tags: San Rafael, San Rafael California, Thanksgiving, Doorbuster, Black Friday, Novato California, Sales promotion, Merchandising, Retailing
You can tell a lot about a neighborhood by what gets locked up to prevent shoplifting. Here in New York, supermarkets in poorer neighborhoods tend to put baby formula behind glass. Swankier places will keep it behind the counter at the pharmacy, or sometimes...
Tags: liquor stores, New York City, Theft, Shoplifting, Liquor store, Crimes, Merchandising
Export sales for television shows rose 25% last year to a new record of £980m compared with £633m in 2007. This year the trend looks set to continue with ITV dramas Lewis and Midsomer Murders, BBC1's Spooks and Gordon Ramsay's Channel 4 series Kitchen...
Tags: tv export, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Television in the United Kingdom, Entertainment Culture, BBC One, Simon Cowell, The X Factor, International trade, Supernanny, allnews, Pop Idol, ITV, Merchandising, Export, Channel 4, Midsomer Murders, American Broadcasting Company
The nation’s stores usher in the traditional start of the holiday shopping season Friday with extended hours, freebies and deep discounts on everything from toys to flat-panel TVs. Here are the nuts and bolts of the holiday kickoff, dubbed Black Friday...
Tags: ShopperTrak, holiday shopping, Tacoma, Shopping, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Business Finance, Target Corporation, Christmas, Merchandising, Retailing, Electronic commerce
It's deja vu for holiday retail shopping this year, with similar items from last year topping consumers' lists. Home entertainment items, electronics and low-cost toys remain popular items this year, according to retail surveys. But many consumers are...
Tags: Julie Tennyson, gift cards, popular items, Everett Mall, Everett, Online shopping, Fred Meyer, Merchandising, Christmas and holiday season, Electronic commerce, Retailing, Cyber Monday, Sears
Reverend Billy Talen writes in the Guardian : [Today] is Buy Nothing Day in the United States. A group of people including myself will preach and sing at the front door of Macy’s department store in New York...We’ll be there at 5am, when shoppers who...
Tags: New York City, Adbusters, Protests, Shopping, Online shopping, Anti-corporate activism, Shoppers Drug Mart, Business Finance, Social philosophy, Target Corporation, Merchandising, Buy Nothing Day, Consumer behaviour, Culture jamming, Black Friday, Christmas and holiday season, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Retailing
Shopping on Black Friday this year was predicted to be up, but any spending momentum may not last through this holiday shopping season, analysts said. Consulting firm Accenture predicted about 52 percent of consumers -- up from 42 percent in 2008 -- would...
Tags: Rockville, Shopping, Black Friday, Christmas and holiday season, Retailing, Accenture, Online shopping, Management consulting, Shoppers Drug Mart, Business Finance, Target Corporation, Merchandising, Wal-Mart, Shopping mall, Best Buy
E-mail: To: From: Name: E-mail: Comments: More Coverage If watching the Thanksgiving Day parade and letting the pumpkin pie digest are more important than shopping before sunrise Friday, you can still expect large crowds and deals later in the day.
Tags: holiday season, George Rosenbaum, Chicago, Christmas creep, Shopping, Online shopping, Shoppers Drug Mart, Black Friday, Christmas and holiday season, Merchandising, Retailing
The retailer will stock the same number of cut trees as last year and a smaller percentage of factory-made trees, Menear said. Lowe's will carry about the same number of cut trees as last year and 10% fewer fakes, Chief Executive Robert Niblock said.
Tags: Home Depot Inc., artificial trees, cut trees, fewer fake, U.S, Craig Menear, Robert Niblock, fake trees, Los Angeles, Online shopping, The Home Depot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Business Finance, Christmas tree, Lowe's, Home Depot, Merchandising