Modest holidays for stores
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Bright spots for this shopping season include gift cards and robust sales online and at luxury stores. By Anne D&#39;Innocenzio / Associated Press.
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For package holiday-makers, the options are straightforward, in theory. Tour reps at hotels help contact families and organise flights home.
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Fix your bad holiday spending habits.
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A burst of shopping in the waning hours before Christmas helped the nationâs retailers meet their modest sales goals.
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The holidays have been in the bag for this luxury retailer.
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Many online merchants this year will still sell goods with standard shipping terms through Monday, Dec. 18, or Tuesday, Dec. 19, a boon for late holiday shoppers.
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A steady stream of last-minute shoppers let retailers feeling a little blue over a slow holiday shopping season see a little more green.
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Travelers flying US Airways during the coming holidays can breathe a little easier. The threat of labor-related disruptions has eased ... for the moment. Expanded hearings next month have decreased the likelihood
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If sales from the first weekend of the 2004 holiday shopping season taught retailers anything, it&#39;s that there is no such thing as too much promotion.
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PC vendors will offer bargains to people living overseas, while U.S. consumers won't feel much of a pinch.
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U.S. retailers were on track to post  solid -- but not spectacular -- sales this holiday after a  last-minute dash to stores saved Christmas, according to retail  indices on Tuesday.
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It hasn&#39;t exactly been a summer of fun for retailers this year -- but at least merchants can look forward to a little holiday cheer, an industry group said Wednesday.
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Investors may want to shop elsewhere for inexpensive retail stocks.
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With less than two weeks of shopping left until Christmas, the nation's malls and stores stepped up discounts over the weekend, but business appeared to be mixed, according to analysts.
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With just hours to go before Christmas, the nation&#39;s retailers hoped a last-minute flurry of holiday shoppers, whether delayed by winter storms or by simple procrastination, would be enough
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If you venture out today, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, expect to see lots of people, few parking spaces -- and a fair number of mark-downs at big retailers.
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With less than two weeks until Christmas, consumers don&#39;t seem to be in a big rush to finish their holiday shopping, evidence from two groups that track sales confirmed on Tuesday.