Attention Shoppers: Bring Your Own Bag
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Starting next week, IKEA will charge customers five cents for every plastic bag they take home and encourage a third option to the old 'paper or plastic' conundrum: bring your own.
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City officials are considering charging grocery stores 17 cents each for grocery bags to discourage use of plastic sacks.
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The Hermes "Kelly" and "Birkin" handbags are perennials, while this season the Marc Jacobs "Stam" and Yves Saint Laurent "Downtown" handbags are among the ones to be seen wearing. But what exactly makes an It bag?
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Focus on consumers' everyday needs.
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If you venture out today, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, expect to see lots of people, few parking spaces -- and a fair number of mark-downs at big retailers.
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Last-minute shopping recommendations from consumer finance experts:
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When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
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Is the clothing retailer a dressed-up delight?
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Shoppers will be able to tell how much damage their purchases do the environment under a new plan.
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Next time you head to the showroom, make sure you're armored against seller tricks, strategies and scams.
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If thereâs a head in your luggage, you might want to allow yourself a few extra minutes at the security checkpoint.
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If Macy's is for sale, make sure you don't get lost in the spectacle.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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It's time for Gen-X to take a shopping "time-out."
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Was that colorful sweater you received as a Christmas gift a little too colorful? Or maybe just a little too tight? If so, maybe you were among hordes of shoppers packing
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You can learn a lot from a holiday shopping bellwether.
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Convenience comes at too big a price.