After-Thanksgiving Day Sales Attract Bargain Hunters
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( Friday, November 26, 2004 - WANE - Fort Wayne) -- The day after Thanksgiving is often referred to as &quot;Black Friday&quot; because it&#39;s suppose to be the day retailers go from being in the &quot;red&quot; to being in the &quot;black&quot; because of holiday sales.
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Plenty of shoppers this holiday season will be passing up retailers' shiny window displays of high-end PCs to seek out bottom-shelf offerings, and with good reason.
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Holiday shoppers rushed the doors of apparel retailers including Aeropostal Inc.  over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend, anxious to snag some of the best deals of the year. But while traffic rose, the sharp discounts could actually hurt the companies' bottom lines.
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Last-minute shoppers gave the nation's retailers a generally solid holiday season, with some apparel retailers and discounters enjoying particularly robust sales.
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Americans stormed the nation&#39;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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The serious holiday shoppers were back in the nation's stores and malls over the weekend, buying in earnest but also making sure they came away with great bargains.
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HUNTINGTON -- With one of the busiest shopping weekends concluded, area retailers saw shoppers show up in droves for the early Thanksgiving Day weekend sales but got mixed results afterward.
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The holiday shopping season ended better than it started, and most retailers are on track to meet humble sales goals, though many still hope for an extra boost this week as consumers cash in gift cards.
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Retailers got what they wanted over the Thanksgiving weekend &#151; a strong start to the 2006 holiday shopping season as consumers crowded stores in search of huge discounts on flat-screen TVs and other hot merchandise.
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Business & money: Bargain-chasing shoppers force stores into heavy price discounting after slowest Christmas sales growth in three years
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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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Savvy investors can find retail bargains -- but not everything's on sale.
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Consumers in the United States are already spending record amounts of money online. One e-commerce company has a novel way to help Net shoppers hunt for bargains this holiday season.
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The retail sector overall may be reporting a sluggish start to the season, but holiday shoppers are scooping up tech goods at a brisk pace -- and they're scouring the Web for bargains more than ever. -washingtonpost.com
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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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Frenzied shoppers have given the day after Thanksgiving a sharp-elbowed edge.
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Bargain hunters got a sluggish start but finally hit the slushy streets yesterday, alongside snow plows and sand trucks, to give retail sales an extra bump this holiday season.