“I was born in 1926 and that was a time with all the problems and everything. A lot of the children now and adults don’t realize what we went through. My mother went out and worked. She knit things for the Red Cross and things like that.”
Along the lines of Aeropostale and its “After Christmas Prices” before Christmas, home improvement center Lowe’s is already offering big discounts—60% off!—on holiday decorations.
As we enter the final stretch of the holiday shopping season, a picture emerges of today’s consumers. Among other things, the stats show that we’re buying more online, we’re buying more for ourselves, we’re using credit cards less, we’d be willing to shop in our underwear if it meant avoiding long lines at cash registers, [...]
I have some issues with gift cards. To me, gift cards play off a widespread yet totally illogical sense of etiquette, in which giving cash seems crass, while giving gift cards—which are celebrated mainly for being as good as cash—is deemed more thoughtful and appropriate. Gift cards can also prod consumers to spend thoughtlessly and [...]
Coats, vests, watches, tank tops, and T-shirts are among the items discounted by 50% during Eddie Bauer’s 12 Days of Gifts sale. Marked-down items are listed separately for men and women, and the discounts are promised for today only, December 21.
This holiday shopping season got off to a start with Black Friday sales starting way before Black Friday, and continued with Black Friday sales lasting way after Black Friday. Based on this kind of logic, it should come as no surprise that retailers are offering after-Christmas sales well before Christmas.
This is a season known for making people feel jolly and merry. The festivities, pumped up and twisted as they sometimes can be, can also get folks agitated enough to want to sound off on how they really feel about holiday shopping, annoying holiday ads—and even about volunteers and God.
Yikes! In an unprecedented move, Toys R Us stores across the country will open at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, December 21, and won’t close until 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
“I have not bought toothpaste since 2008.”
Use the coupon code HOLIDAY20 to get 20% off your entire order at cvs.com. The code is valid for discounts on orders placed by December 22. Free shipping is available for orders of $49 and up.
During a six-hour shopping excursion in Dallas-area malls, three shoppers armed with three different smartphones—Android, Blackberry, iPhone—scan, search, and take advantage of every app under the sun on a two-prong online-real world quest for great gifts and the best prices. What do they find out? While smartphone-enhanced shopping comes with its share of frustrations (Droids [...]
