Topic: United States

Crowds hit stores for "Black Friday" deals

(Reuters) - Retailers may not reap hefty gains from the longer lines of shoppers snaked around malls across the U.S. at the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season; broader bargain hunting driven by budgetary fears may depress overall holiday spending.Eager ...

Crowds hit U.S. stores for "Black Friday" deals

(Reuters) - Retailers may not reap hefty gains from the longer lines of shoppers snaked around malls across the U.S. at the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season; broader bargain hunting driven by budgetary fears may depress overall holiday spending.Eager ...

Worried shoppers greet "Black Friday" sales

(Reuters) - Bargain hunters flocked to U.S. stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being.Some stores, looking to grab as big a piece as possible of what is expected to be a middling ...

Thanksgiving kicks off fight for holiday sales

(Reuters) - The holiday shopping season starts in earnest on Thursday, with retailers anxious to see how willing U.S. consumers are to spend despite an endless stream of scary headlines about the fragile economy and their own precarious finances.The shopping period, which ...

Walmart offers early preview of Black Friday deals

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is offering an early preview of its Black Friday deals starting Wednesday and will also hold an early holiday sale beginning Saturday.The Saturday sale will start on November 5 at 11 a.m. and will go ...

Home Depot, Walmart, grocers get boost from Irene

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene sent east coast shoppers into stores to stock up on essentials this week, instead of the clothes, notebooks and other supplies that retailers were counting on selling as parents prepare to send their children back to ...

Frugal is in: deals to drive back-to-school shopping for clothes

BANGALORE (Reuters) - For young Americans, frugal dressing is in this back-to-school season.Retailers like Abercombie & Fitch , Aeropostale and Zumiez may be showing off offers and promotions, but shoppers on skimpy budgets want to wait it out or check with value ...
Southern Living magazine gives best of the South travel awards to new eateries, attractionsNew hotels, new eateries and even a new shopping district made Southern Living magazine's "Best of the South" travel awards in its January issue.Among the categories for best new ...

Online U.S. holiday sales up 15.4 percent: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. online shopping rose 15.4 percent to $36.4 billion for the holiday shopping season, a MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse report showed.Online sales registered double-digit growth in six out of seven weeks since October 31, SpendingPulse said on Thursday."Today eCommerce ...

Online holiday sales up 15.4 percent: SpendingPulse

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. online shopping rose 15.4 percent to $36.4 billion for the holiday shopping season, a MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse report showed on Thursday.Online sales registered double-digit growth in six out of seven weeks since October 31, SpendingPulse said."Today eCommerce ...