Some retailers had luxurious weekend
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&quot;I think the start was very mixed,&quot; said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz &amp; Associates, a national retail consulting and investment banking firm in New York.
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Merchants who spent the past few weeks hoping shoppers would splurge on gifts opened their doors Sunday with high hopes the same people would now spend on themselves.
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Fashion may be feeling the effects of the stock market wobble, but you could not tell amid the big spending and opulent theatricality.
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You can learn a lot from a holiday shopping bellwether.
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New York Fashion Week, that biannual ritual of luxury and excess, came this week at an odd time.
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Many area retailers reported having a strong start to the holiday season as customers lined up early for after-Thanksgiving sales.
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The holiday shopping season ended better than it started and most retailers are on track to meet humble sales goals, though many still hope for an extra boost the week after Christmas as consumers cash in gift cards.
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HUNTINGTON -- With one of the busiest shopping weekends concluded, area retailers saw shoppers show up in droves for the early Thanksgiving Day weekend sales but got mixed results afterward.
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Luxury goods makers are taking advertising cues from some humbler products these days, as a robust market for sumptuous living also creates greater competition.
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Computer-savvy consumers did plenty of online shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving companies like Amazon.com and walmart.com the same kickoff to the holiday season as department stores and malls had.
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By Pat Kimbrough, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Dec. 9--HIGH POINT -- It isn't just retailers that benefit from the  consumer spending bonanza during the holiday season.
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A traditional day of feasting with family turned into a day of early holiday shopping for some, as retailers offered more options &#151; both online and in stores &#151; than ever this Thanksgiving.
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NEW YORK -- Retailers got what they wanted over the Thanksgiving weekend -- a strong start to the 2006 holiday shopping season.
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By designing accessible variations of last seasonâs creative storms, the Elie Taharis of Fashion Week are a shopperâs â and a merchantâs â best friends.
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Bargain-seeking consumers headed into stores for their last-minute Christmas shopping during the "Super Saturday" weekend, to the relief of some worried retailers, according to data released on Monday.
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FEARS of a slump in consumer spending were blown away yesterday as official figures recorded a surprise sales jump and two of the country&#39;s biggest retail chains unveiled strong trading performances.
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The retailer does a little gold digging, aiming at affluent customers with a new fashion collection.