Sunday, November 18, 2012
It's time to get your shop on, and rise of online shopping and Cyber Monday has given deal-hungry consumers some options.
With Thanksgiving occurring on the earliest possible day this year, the official holiday shopping season is as long as it can be. For years, the Friday following Thanksgiving — Black Friday — was the unquestioned king of that season. But the furious growth of the Internet has spawned Cyber Monday, an online shopping frenzy that grew 22 percent from 2010 to $1.25 billion in sales in the United States. It still pales in comparison to Black Friday, which last year generated $52.4 billion in sales, up from $45 billion in 2010. Many shoppers enjoy the early rising, elbow-to-elbow aisles and energy of in-person shopping on Black Friday, and the game-planning that goes with it. Others would prefer to sit in their home or office and cross off gift…
Monday, November 12, 2012
Downtown mall will be open an extra hour each day this holiday season to accommodate shoppers.
Some residents and businesses will start stringing up the Christmas lights as soon as the Halloween decorations come down, but hardcore shoppers know when their dream season begins. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the accepted if not unofficial start time of the Christmas rush. It's a huge day for retailers but only the first of a roughly month-long extravaganza. And thanks to Abe Lincoln, who decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed into law that it should fall on the fourth Thursday in November, and Pope Gregory XIII, who blessed the calendar we use by papal bull, 2012 has the longest possible shopping season. To explain: With Nov. 1 falling on Thursday, the fourth Thursday and …
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The major retail destination extends hours beginning on Black Friday, but Kohl's gets started earlier. Like now.
Not everyone is waiting until Black Friday to launch the holiday shopping season. At Bayshore Town Center, the official tree lighting is 6 p.m. Nov. 16 — but Kohl’s is even weeks ahead of that launch at the North Shore’s largest shopping destination. The retailer’s Bayshore location started holiday hours on Sunday, Oct. 28. The store is open until 11 p.m. through Nov. 3 then gets started in earnest Nov. 7. Kohl’s is open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Nov. 7-8, then 7 a.m. to midnight Nov. 9-10. More holiday hours are posted on the store’s front door through Nov. 17. Bayshore holiday hours begin officially at 7 a.m. on Black Friday, Nov. 23. The mall remains open until 10 p.m. that day, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Nov. 24. From there, standard 10 a.m. open …
Monday, November 21, 2011
Sara from SarandipitySaves.com shares her Black Friday shopping tips and tricks, and a few of the top store's best deals.
There's some argument as to why we refer to the Friday following Thanksgiving as "Black Friday." Philadelphia claims their police force coined the term in the 1960s after throngs of folks took to the streets to shop 'till they dropped. Others say the name was adopted by retailers as it was traditionally the first day of the year in which their sales brought them out of the red and into the black. I'm leaning toward the latter explanation as last year more than 138 million consumers took advantage of the deep discounts of Black Friday, spending $45 billion in a single day. This year is expected to be an even bigger event. If you're gearing up to head out and throw elbows to snag the day's biggest steals, here's some tips on how to make it a…
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