The Year Shoppers Left the Mall Behind
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Online  buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching or buying products at least once a month -- will do more shopping online than at shopping malls and stores, from catalogues and by phone, the survey found.
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NEW YORK -- The start of the holiday season was respectable but unimpressive for many of the nation's retailers, with consumers jamming stores and malls on Friday and pulling back as the weekend wore on.
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One-stop shopping takes another step forward.
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Lately, the company's retail operation has been lagging behind sales of its locations.
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Shoppers now crowd Venezuela's shopping malls, two years after they were padlocked during a national strike against President Hugo Chavez. The economy is robust once again. The mass demonstrations that paralyzed the capital are no more.
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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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_ The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending but consumers faded by the long Thanksgiving weekend&#39;s close and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales.
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After raiding the nation's stores and malls as early as midnight Friday, the nation's shoppers pulled back on Saturday, resulting in a still solid start to the holiday shopping season, a national research firm that tracks retail sales said Monday.
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The case for a losing year in 2008 for this leading electronics retailer.
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The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending, but consumers faded by the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales.
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The 2007 holiday shopping season is turning out to be the weakest in years after retailers across-the-board reported deep declines in their December sales Thursday.
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The holidays may be over, but the shopping hasn't stopped.
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With a weak back-to-school season behind them, the nation's retailers are focused on the holidays and what steps they need to take to get consumers excited about shopping again. That could mean some quick merchandise changes and more aggressive discounting than they originally planned.
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WASHINGTON - Consumers returned to the malls in July after taking a breather in June, although worries about the future could make the rebound short-lived.
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Bargain-hungry shoppers raced to malls as early as midnight to be the first in line to grab the best of retailers' so-called doorbuster deals on Black Friday, the kickoff of the 2006 holiday shopping season. Impatient shoppers chanted "open the door" before a 5:00 a.m. opening at a Wal-Mart store in Union, New Jersey.
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Retail sales fell unexpectedly in  December to close out the weakest year at the cash register  since 2002, data showed on Tuesday, the strongest signal yet  that the economy may be sliding into recession under the weight  of a housing and credit crisis.
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