Is Santa Skipping Wal-Mart?
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Plus, few defectors in the wireless war, and Overstock's locked and loaded.
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Wal-Mart, the nation's largest  retailer, is not selling comedian George Carlin's best-selling  new book, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops," in its stores  because its cover makes fun of the "Last Supper," a spokesman  for Carlin said on Thursday.
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(December 3, 2004, 7:38 pm) Target stores may soon be the focus of a boycott because of a new holiday policy. In January, Target officials informed the Salvation Army that their holiday bell ringers could
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Do they know it's Christmas? Maybe, maybe not. The bigger   question is: Do we care?
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By TOM BREEN  ST. ALBANS, W.Va. - Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town. The community's holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph.
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Online and traditional retailers are taking aim at the bane of their holiday sales &#151; procrastinators. You know the type. Last minute lollygaggers who have put off their holiday shopping either to wait for desperation sales by retailers or because they can't stand the crowds.
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The Christmas shopping season began with the now-traditional pre-dawn sales at Wal-Mart, Target and Staples, among others. Judging by the weight of holiday catalogues, the absence of early discounting and
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Dec. 10--You're lucky I'm not Santa Claus, because I know what you're  going to do wrong between now and Christmas.   I'm not talking about taking the last piece of blueberry pie or calling  in sick so you can shop.
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Anecdotal evidence of crowded stores at the start of the holiday shopping season wasn&#39;t backed up with promising retail numbers, as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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As website wobbles too The MasterCard website struggled to cope with Christmas shopping demand that left it unreachable for nearly five hours in the run-up to Christmas. More seriously MasterCard's Maestro system also experienced glitches in the immediate run-up to Xmas. The extent of the problem with the debit card system remains unclear.â¦
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Let's be honest: There is no jolly old elf with flying reindeer who slides down chimneys and leaves gifts for every good little Christian boy and girl on Earth. That's ridiculous. But then, where do the presents come from?
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SUNDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The weekend after Thanksgiving has traditionally signaled the start of the Christmas shopping season, but as Santa Claus checks his list of who's been naughty or nice, he may also have to make special arrangements for children with allergies or asthma.
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Retailers say they're having trouble meeting this year's Christmas forecasts. Not online, though.
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Scored a gift card for Christmas? Maybe cool, maybe not.
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NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters Life!) - Move over Santa. The red-clad philanthropist has lost the top slot on Forbes magazines' list of the 15 richest fictional characters to defense contractor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
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By Erica Erwin, Erie Times-News, Pa.  Dec. 19--Joshua Kavelish struggles to spell cell phone.   But that doesn't mean he can't ask Santa for one.  "That way if you're gone from home, people can talk to you," the  6-year-old explained.
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Maybe Santa will bring them UK police are to stop searching for the missing child benefit CDs early next week.â¦