Retailers hit by turkey of a Christmas
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Business & money: Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser to emerge as  winners from brutal Christmas trading period
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Across the country, initiatives are sprouting to push commerce out of Christmas and focus on tradition.
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Americans stormed the nation's stores on the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the key holiday shopping season, lured by cut-price toys, consumer electronics and Santa.
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Consumer spending, the critical bulwark that has kept the country out of a recession, is showing signs of cracking. Retail sales plunged by 0.4 percent last month as consumers battered by a sinking housing market, rising unemployment and the credit crunch, handed retailers their worst Christmas in five years.
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The nation's retailers had a disappointing start to the holiday season, reporting sluggish sales for November after a much hoped-for surge in Thanksgiving weekend business failed to materialize.
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The nationâs retailers had a disappointing start to the holiday season, reporting sluggish sales for November after a surge in Thanksgiving weekend business failed to materialize.
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The holiday shopping season is entering the home stretch. And with some retailers depending on seasonal spending for half or more of their sales, the stakes are high.
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Americans stormed the nation's shops on Friday after U.S. Thanksgiving Day at the start of the holiday shopping season, lured by cut-price toys, consumer electronics and Santa.
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After frustrating the nation's retailers throughout the holiday shopping season by waiting until the last minute to buy gifts, consumers are not expected to give merchants much relief in 2005.
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Shoppers in the US are being urged to boycott some of the country&#39;s most famous stores because they do not say &quot;Merry Christmas&quot;.
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Just weeks ago, the holiday shopping season seemed headed for disaster. But in the waning hours before Christmas, the nation's retailers got their wish Â a last-minute surge of shopping that helped meet their modest sales goals, according to data released late Monday by research firm ShopperTrak RCT Corp.
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Business & money: After a gloomy Christmas, retailers are pessimistic as debt-laden customers face reality
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Bargain-seeking consumers headed into  stores for their last-minute Christmas shopping during the  "Super Saturday" weekend, to the relief of some worried  retailers, according to data released on Monday.
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The holiday season typically brings a surge in the number of fraudulent online orders, and smaller online retailers are being hit especially hard this year.
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Retailers may be in for a blue Christmas this year as worries about soaring energy prices, consumers' cost-consciousness and a warmer December than last year make for lackluster holiday sales, retail analysts said.
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UK retailers had their worst Christmas since 2004, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) says.
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With the 2007 run-up to Christmas boosted by a last-minute sales surge, retailers are putting an extra emphasis on after-Christmas discounts, hoping bargain shoppers and gift-card splurgers can enrich stores' holidays.