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Insane Discount Season

You probably saw this year's reports of retailers' pre-Thanksgiving bravado. "This holiday shopping season," The New York Times declared breezily on Nov. 22, "America's clothing stores are offering their customers something they have ...READ»

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Have Yourself a Merry Online Christmas

Will this year's cyber-shopping experience be merry and bright? One expert predicts yuletide cheers from shoppers who pick their sites wisely.READ»

Kenan Samms
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Risky Business: Online Shopping at Work

The temptation to shop online while at work gets much stronger at this time of year. Despite the known risks, many of us do it on the sly anyway -- like using a cell phone while driving.In fact, 1 in 5 workers (21%) said they will ...READ»

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Black Friday Bolsters Retail Sales

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend for U.S. retailers, with fewer shoppers spending more. According to The National Retail Federation, an estimated 140 million people hit the stores and shopped online over the past four days, down ...READ»

Cyber Monday vs. Black Friday

We've all heard about "Black Friday", the Friday after Thanksgiving when shoppers still reeling from the effects of tryptophan wrench themselves out of bed at 6 A.M. to catch holiday shopping bargains. But what about "Cyber Monday"? ...READ»

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Cyber Monday: Marketing Myth No More?

It's Cyber Monday--Yay! What's that you say? "Nothing but a marketing myth designed to boost pre-Holiday sales?" And Black Friday is, what, a day when we're genetically predisposed to camping out in a 33-degree wintery mix for a ...READ»

Cyber Monday: The Phantom Boom

How a clever nickname turned a ho-hum shopping day into the holy grail of holiday sales -- and why it's doomed.READ»

Online Shopping

   I will be doing all my holiday shopping online this year. I have done the majority of my shopping online in the past few years, but this year I have decided it will all be this way. Some of the sites I have used are Amazon.com, ...READ»

Black Friday: Best Day to Buy Your new Miami Honda Car

Black Friday is typically one of the busiest days in retail store history. Many people go shopping for clothes, electronics, and toys to find the greatest deals and steals of the year. Now you can find new vehicles on Black Friday for ...READ»

Why do we abandon shopping carts?

This is like a moving target and things are getting better and better every day, but still many websites aren't moving that fast.READ»

Insane Discount Season and Customer Loyalty

Keith Hammond's post on Friday about the Insane Discount Season got me thinking. Many retailers offered customers Early Bird Specials to entice so-called professional shoppers to begin their post Turkey Day shopping frenzy at their ...READ»

Predictions and Trends for the 2010 Holiday Shopping Season

Holiday shopping isn’t what it used to be. Long lines, early bird sales and throwing elbows are still involved, but thanks to social media, consumers can get a lot of the legwork done before ever reaching a store. Since the advent ...READ»

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Shopping Sites With Sizzle

Just in time for Christmas, a team of hard-shopping Web analysts hands out eGold awards to the best e-commerce sites -- and eBomb awards to those that may deliver a lump of coal this holiday season.READ»

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Before You Hit the Mall ...

An online buying guide.READ»

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Try to find something that is soft and not scratchy.

The turtleneck was once fully admired - but it comes to pant the scale is parallel excluding that it does not realistic to hold These are modish and look great with any shirts that you buy. You should even invest in the south you can ...READ»

Checking Myself Out

This spring, Dusseldorf, Germany-based Metro AG, the world's third largest supermarket chain, opened the company's Extra Future Store. The high-tech supermarket in Rheinberg features wireless check out, smart shelves that alert ...READ»

How We Sell

If shopping is the great American indoor sport, why isn't it more fun? Why isn't it easier? Why isn't it better? Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell Inc., decodes the secrets of retail design to explain the rules behind how we shop.READ»

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Let's Go Cyber-Shopping

The best to buy stuff for your computer is ... on your computer.READ»

Honda: Smart Shopping at its Finest.

My Mother is a special woman, and is probably one of the most passionate value hunters in the United States. When I was growing up, she would often get to my Dad’s Sunday Miami Herald newspaper before he would, just so she could ...READ»

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Panic Attack

I have HOW MANY days till Xmas?READ»

Where Are You on the Web?

Everyone knows that the Web is the next big thing -- right? So why isn't everyone jumping into it with the same kind of vigor?READ»

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Another Stimulus Package? Give Me a Break

Democrats, now backed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, are calling for a second stimulus package which could cost as much as $300 billion. To clarify, that’s $300 billion on top of the $168 billion stimulus passed last ...READ»

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Winning the Fight for More Business: What Savvy Customers Expect From Your Brand

Before they support your business, customers want to know what you’re all about—and why you deserve to get their money. When they're online, comparing products and services, does your brand stand out as the one that best satisfies their needs?READ»

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Where Were You Today?

In the retailing business, today is Black Friday, the first official day of the Holiday Shopping Season.  Did you shop today?I did not shop today.  The only dollars we spent were on the standard 4-month checkup for our baby.  All ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Can Wal-Mart become the new third place?

Wal-Mart, Home Depot (and surely many others) are designing smaller stores to help simplify the shopping experience and better address the needs of female customers. According to the retail giant (quoted in Marketing Daily), the ...READ»