Braving &#39;Black Friday&#39; Crowds
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(CBS/AP) Shoppers braved chilly temperatures to be among the first inside retail stores and shopping malls on Friday, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Americans stormed the nation&#39;s stores on the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the key holiday shopping season, lured by cut-price toys, consumer electronics and Santa.
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Vendors know their route for the holidays: the mass market.
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Millions of revellers were celebrating the first night of the holiday last night.
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Americans stormed the nation&#39;s shops on Friday after US Thanksgiving Day at the start of the key holiday shopping season, lured by cut-price toys, consumer electronics and Santa.
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Consumers are breaking out their wallets on the brink of what should be a robust holiday shopping season, several reports suggested yesterday.
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Consumers packed malls and store parking lots over the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend, leading many to expect this year's holiday sales figures could blow away expectations and lift retail stocks.
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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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An unprecedented number of stores will open on Boxing Day for the start of the sales. About 40% of large retailers will be trading tomorrow - many hoping
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INVESTORS dined out on retail stocks on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving â-s US consumers made their annual pilgrimage to the malls for retail therapy.
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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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and hopefully so are your shopping and wrapping - now is the time to just enjoy. New films have filled the multiplexes - and there&#39;s something for everybody from the
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With the release of &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot; DVD yesterday, retail outlets braced for heavy crowds to bring heavenly sales.
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The nation&#39;s retailers remained on edge Sunday, as the much-hoped for sales bonanza appeared not to materialize on the last weekend before Christmas, despite an abundance of deals on toys and apparel.
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Near-record crowds turned out for the holiday shopping seasonâs Thanksgiving weekend kickoff, bringing with them unexpectedly robust sales gains to many malls and retail chains across the country.
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Queues over a thousand people long formed at some retailers in Japan yesterday as Sony&#39;s PlayStation Portable went on sale, with fears of a shortage realised as stocks sold out within hours at some major outlets.
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Retailers hailed a âfantasticâ last-minute Christmas shopping rush tonight amid predictions of the dayâs sales topping the Â£1 billion mark.