Topic: Black Friday

Nintendo: 3DS gets boost from Mario, at least in Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sales of Nintendo Co Ltd's 3DS games device will hit 3 million units in the Japanese market within days, but consumers in the U.S. and Europe seem to be delaying their holiday season shopping due to poor economic conditions, ...

Exclusive: Many Americans already done with holiday shopping

(Reuters) - More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monday, signaling that retailers need to offer bigger incentives to win sales in the few weeks before Christmas.The findings underscore ...
US firearms sales reached a record 129,166 during last week's Black Friday that kicked off the holiday shopping season, a 32 percent increase from the previous all-time high, officials said.The FBI confirmed the jump from the last peak of 97,848 weapons sold ...

Shoppers spent more cash over Thanksgiving weekend: NRF

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More people headed to stores and websites over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and average spending per person rose 9.1 percent as bargain-hunting shoppers scooped up discounts on everything from gadgets to hoodies, a National Retail Federation survey on ...

Retailers look to keep Black Friday momentum going

(Reuters) - U.S. retailers moved from the frenzied start of the holiday shopping season to the next phase on Saturday, hoping to avoid a drop after Black Friday and keep the momentum going during a fitful economic recovery.After featuring the usual deep ...

Black Friday pepper-spray shopper turns herself in

A woman who pepper-sprayed other Black Friday shoppers at a Los Angeles-area Wal-Mart so she could get an Xbox video game console at a deep discount has turned herself in, police said Saturday.The woman, whose name was not released but who has ...
It looks like Santa's elves are becoming increasingly tech-savvy in the North Pole.The Apple iPad tops wish lists this year for children ages 6 through 12 desiring consumer electronics, according to Nielsen research. Forty-four percent of kids surveyed expressed interest in the ...

Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt

(Reuters) - Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling holiday shopping season.The Brooklyn, New York teacher, one of hundreds of ...

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Black Friday turned into a black mark against American shoppers as riotous crowds brawled over video games, waffle irons and towels, drawing international condemnation and even raising questions about the state of humanity.One of the most outrageous incidents ...

Spirited "Black Friday" has dark roots

(Reuters) - Most Americans associate the words "Black Friday" with the ritual of excited consumers rising early to begin holiday shopping in search of doorbuster deals, but the term's origins have a deeper, darker meaning.The Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, known ...
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