The Missing Shoppers
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Something odd happened on the way to global recovery. The shoppers are not turning out the way they normally do when things start to look up.
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NEW YORK (CP) - US shoppers - some holding out for the best bargains, others who just didn&#39;t have the time to do their holiday buying earlier - hit the country&#39;s stores and malls Friday, looking for last-minute gifts on the day before Christmas.
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As holiday shopping reaches the homestretch, consumers who are far removed from Madison Avenue and Rodeo Drive say they are holding down their spending.
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Retailers made up significant ground in the final week before Christmas after a lackluster start to the holiday shopping season, according to experts who track holiday spending.
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At least two Australians are missing in Thailand&#39;s resort island of Phuket, which was one of the first inhabited regions hit by the tsunami.
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Police and customs officials search for seized items missing from a secure depot in Coventry.
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A burst of shopping in the waning hours before Christmas helped the nationâs retailers meet their modest sales goals.
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Two days after a tsunami battered  Indian Ocean coastlines, hundreds of foreign tourists are still  missing or unaccounted for.
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Of the roughly 1.9 million children who disappear each year in the United States, a small but startling number of them -- about 204,000 -- are abducted by family members, including parents, grandparents, siblings, and other close relatives.
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As post-Christmas retail results began trickling in yesterday, this much became clear about the 2004 holiday shopping season: Consumers procrastinated; they gobbled up gift cards; they defected, in greater numbers, from stores to the Web; and, overall, they appeared to spend more this year than last.
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Where is the world are the million missing iPhones? Our readers think they know.
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Some surveys find that as of last weekend, consumers had completed less than 15 percent of their holiday shopping.
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BANGKOK  - Some 4,086 people are listed as missing in Thailand after tidal waves struck six southern provinces at the weekend, the interior ministry said.
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The search for tiny treasures continues.
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Four serious criminals who were recaptured have gone missing again, it emerges.
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Boxing Day figures reveal poor sales, but bargain hunters are expected to turn out in force for post-Christmas shopping
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Lately, the company's retail operation has been lagging behind sales of its locations.