Holiday shopping season doesn&#39;t end till next week
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Lazily roasting chestnuts over an open fire was clearly not on the agenda for millions of shoppers Friday, and that fact provided a ray of hope for retailers hoping either to salvage or bolster holiday sales results.
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NEW YORK Dec 12, 2004 - With less than two weeks of shopping left until Christmas, the nation&#39;s malls and stores stepped up discounts over the weekend, but business appeared to be mixed, according to analysts.
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The holidays have been in the bag for this luxury retailer.
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Holiday shopping got off to a flying start in the United States this weekend.
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
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With four days left before Christmas, retailers are still waiting for a holiday shopping blitz -- and beginning to worry they won&#39;t hit their sales projections for the season.
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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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Ask holiday shoppers what drives their choice of stores and you&#39;ll hear a variety of answers. But the subject of money is never far away.
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Last-minute Christmas shoppers helped lift this month&#39;s retail sales, but some analysts still are concerned that Americans didn&#39;t spend enough to give chain stores the boost they had requested from Santa.
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There may be 206 shopping days left until December 25, but a new drive to encourage shoppers and retailers to support the first ever national plastic-bag free Christmas is already gaining momentum.
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Seasons greetings are near, but so far there's little cheer for U.S. retailers wishing for "must-have" apparel items to land on holiday shopping lists.
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Only 29 shopping days left to Christmas. If you are a high spender, there has rarely been a better time to hop on a plane to New York for a weekend's shopping.
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Retailers will have to work hard to achieve sales growth this holiday season because of the slow economy and rising prices, but online shopping should keep clicking, a retail trade association will announce today.
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It&#39;s the last weekend before Christmas and for many shoppers it&#39;s the last chance to buy gifts. But if you&#39;re still putting off that trip to the mall you&#39;re not alone.
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The holiday shopping season is ending on a better note than it began, and most retailers are on track to meet humble sales goals. Still, retailers hope for a boost the week after Christmas as consumers cash in gift cards.
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Shoppers headed to the nation&#39;s malls and stores to grab post-holiday bargains Sunday as merchants slashed prices even deeper in hopes of squeezing more sales out of what&#39;s winding up to be an unimpressive holiday season.
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LOS ANGELES  - With Thanksgiving over  and Christmas still three weeks away, the box office will try  to catch its breath this weekend as moviegoers turn their  attention to other seasonal pursuits like shopping.