Holiday shopping horror
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A bizarre attack spread panic through the packed Toys &quot;R&quot; Us superstore in Times Square yesterday - forcing 3,000 kids and holiday bargain hunters to flee on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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November 28, 2004 -- More than 3,000 joyful holiday shoppers were forced to flee the Toys &#39;R&#39; Us store in Times Square yesterday when some people suddenly were blinded by tears and started gasping for air.
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Walmart.com, Amazon.com suffer site performance problems during holiday shopping.
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If the home-furnishings retailer can't get things right by the holidays, look out below.
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Comment is free: Mary Riddell: There is much hand-wringing over consumerism at Christmas. But poverty remains the real enemy
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With just hours to go before Christmas, the nation&#39;s retailers said they hoped a last-minute flurry of holiday shoppers, whether delayed by winter storms or by simple procrastination, would be enough to shore up an otherwise disappointing season.
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Christmas can&#39;t come soon enough for the nation&#39;s retailers, but this year, it also might not come strong enough. High energy costs, rising interest rates, and consumer unease about threats
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The generational divide becomes apparent as families start to think about gift-giving holidays. Advice for shoppers of all ages.
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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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As holiday shopping reaches the home stretch, consumers who are far removed from Madison Avenue and Rodeo Drive say they are holding down their spending.
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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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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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Fix your bad holiday spending habits.
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There's yet more ugly news from this classic retailer.
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Spending on womenâs apparel so far this year is proving disastrously weak, an ominous signal for the holiday shopping season.
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I heard the Salvation Army in Arizona is arming its bell ringers with credit card machines. That&#39;s a good thing because I am feeling awfully, and unintentionally, Scroogy this holiday season.
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Crumbling consumer confidence and slumping home sales could prove to be a bad combination for retailers, and for the broader economy going into the holiday shopping season