Americans kick off holiday shopping season
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Retailers south of the border are keeping an eye on their tills today, as the holiday shopping season gets its traditional post-Thanksgiving launch.
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Travel: Gear up for a Christmas spending spree with a spot of online window shopping.
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Consumers are breaking out their wallets on the brink of what should be a robust holiday shopping season, several reports suggested yesterday.
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Almost a third of Americans plan to spend less on the holidays this year, mainly because they need to use their money for daily expenses, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
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The post-Thanksgiving rush to US stores has begun, with bargain hunters taking advantage of seasonal discounts.
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After raiding the nation's stores and malls as early as midnight Friday, the nation's shoppers pulled back on Saturday, resulting in a still solid start to the holiday shopping season, a national research firm that tracks retail sales said Monday.
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Retailers hoping for a strong start to the holiday shopping season that gets underway Friday are flashing deals to jolt consumers into spending.
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Spending by Americans shopping online  during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent to $8.8  billion, with sharp gains in purchases of clothing and  entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O said on  Thursday.
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The U.S. holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start with high oil prices and weak consumer confidence hitting the key Thanksgiving weekend, according to three retail indices released on Tuesday.
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Spending by Americans shopping  online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent from a  year earlier to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of  clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O  said on Thursday.
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To most weary shoppers, it&#39;s known as Black Friday, the semiofficial start of the holiday retail season. But to hundreds of regional residents and countless others worldwide
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This year's "Black Friday" could be the strongest opening to the holiday shopping season in years if the droves of Americans eager to exploit early-bird specials are any guide.
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Spending by Americans shopping online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. said on Thursday.
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(CBS/AP) The start of the holiday season was respectable but unimpressive for many of the leading US retailers, with consumers jamming stores and malls on Friday and pulling back as the weekend wore on.
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Millions of Americans will be looking forward Thursday to turkey with all the trimmings to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. But for US retailers, the holiday is much more than a festive meal.
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The U.S. holiday shopping season got  off to a sluggish start with high oil prices and weak consumer  confidence hitting the key Thanksgiving weekend, according to  three retail indices released on Tuesday.
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Americans shook off their turkey-and-cranberry hangovers and hit the stores early on Friday, anxious to start holiday shopping and take advantage of deals offered by retailers including Gap, Macy's and Best Buy.