Delightful Discount or Devilish Decline?
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Slowing sales and income plus a warning about future profitability at Deluxe shows just how thin the line between deep value and permanent decline can be.
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As part of a special promotion, Blockbuster has cut prices again. But will it be enough?
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Circuit City's sales predicament is worrisome -- when will it recover?
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Market panics aren't the time to do the same. Look at them as a sale at Saks -- rare, and a great opportunity.
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Have weak first-quarter earnings pulled the plug on this party?
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Buy low, sell high? Or buy "no," sell low?
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Is it more appealing to hear that a product is selling at a 50 percent discount or to hear that it has been marked down twice, first by 25 percent and then by a further 33 percent? The two options come out to the same result, of course. But a paper in the Journal of Consumer Research reports that consumers tend to prefer the second option, since they often proceed by the flawed arithmetical process of adding the two sale percentages together to get 58 percent.
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Worries about job prospects sent consumer confidence to a seven-month low in October and its third consecutive monthly decline. The steeper-than-expected drop raised questions about whether consumers will be in the mood to spend during the critical holiday shopping season.
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Is now a good time to invest in the home improvement retailer?
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Larger sellers are benefiting from discounts that for the first time in the siteâs history treat high-volume merchants better than mom-and-pop sellers.
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Shopping site Boddit lets holiday spendthrifts quickly compare prices from online retailers. It also scours the web for coupons and promotional codes to help you save cash. In Monkey Bites.
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Is the chip giant bargain-shopping or just wasting money?
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Three tips to tell when to buy, and when to pass.
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Amazon disappoints the market, but it could be the sale that you've been waiting for.
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With M&A fever supposedly waning, which deals will work out?
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More retailers are offering candy at the checkout. Is this sweet success or a lack of focus?
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Business & money: Bargain-chasing shoppers force stores into heavy price discounting after slowest Christmas sales growth in three years