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Check Out Line: Train wreck Christmas?
Check out a rather glum outlook for the Christmas shopping season. Last year, holiday sales notched their worst performance in nearly four decades. This year, they could be a “train wreck” says Britt...
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Check Out Line: A glimmer of holiday optimism
Check Out this slightly more optimistic holiday sales forecast. The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) said the 2009 U.S. holiday season is likely to be “a lot better” than last year,...
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This year, a Christmas of blue jeans, not Blu-rays
As we mentioned on Shop Talk this morning, the National Retail Federation expects total holiday sales this year to fall 1 percent. The trade group held a conference call later in the day to add details...
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Check Out Line: It’s the most worrisome time of the year
Check out U.S. consumers spending less. More shoppers flocked to stores over the Thanksgiving weekend (like these shoppers heading into Macy’s at 5 a.m. on Black Friday). However, they spent a lot...
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Check Out Line: Online shopping saving season?
Check out that cyber spending. Cyber Monday ended barely a few hours ago and already the first reports are trickling in: online shopping looks like it may save the holiday season for retailers after...
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Check Out Line: Holidays not looking so holly, jolly
Check out the lackluster start to the holiday season for major U.S. retailers. The Thomson Reuters same-store sales index rose 0.5 percent in November, while Wall Street experts had been expecting 2.1...
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Check Out Line: Invasion of the robo-hamsters
Check out the Zhu Zhu Pet airlift of 2009. Wal-Mart is flying and trucking in hundreds of thousands of the robotic varmints to lure shoppers into the doors during the last days before Christmas. The...
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Check Out Line: Snowstorm doesn’t drive shoppers online
Check out how the East Coast’s weekend snowstorm might not have been a boon to online shoppers. A survey of 1,000 U.S. shoppers over the weekend found that the convenience of shopping from the warmth...
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Check Out Line: Best Buy’s claims on market share gains
Check out the holiday sales results from Best Buy. The top U.S. consumer electronics chain said its December same-store sales rose 8.2 percent, recovering from last year’s 6.5 percent drop. The company...
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Check Out Line: Borders had a lousy Christmas
Check out Borders’ poor 2009 holiday sales numbers. The No 2 U.S. bricks-and-mortar bookseller disclosed its how sharply sales fell during the disastrous 2009 holiday season on Monday (apparently...
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