Allow me to let you in on a little secret, women have curves, pores, wrinkles and other imperfections that make them who they are and now lawmakers in Arizona want ad viewers to recognize those wrinkles by ...
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Should Amazon refuse to sell certain titles of books because some customers find the content offensive? According to Milli Hill of Somerset, United Kingdom, a parenting columnist for Somerset Life Magazine and blogger for The Mule, the answer is a resounding ...
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Four years after the death of the designer whose name the company bears, Liz Claiborne is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific.
In 2011, the company suffered some setbacks, with a fourth-quarter loss of 9%. In November ...
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Consumer confidence soared in the United States during the month of December according to a report from the Conference Boards' Consumer Confidence Index.
According to the report confidence shot up by 10 points in December to close at ...
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Post-Christmas Day sales in 2011 are expected to see a 60% rise in store traffic over 2010. According to research firm ShopperTrak, there's a simple explanation: Boxing Day falls on a Monday.
Boxing Day 2010 was a Sunday, ...
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You can call it the holiday wrapping paper index or whatever you'd like but if wrapping paper sales in the U.S. are any indication it will have been a very good holiday season for U.S. retailers.
In attempting ...
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Are the huge chains missing the mark when it comes to the Jewish Holidays? The Washington Post's Jessica Goldstein went to a local Whole Foods, and could not believe that under a Hanukkah display the shelves were ...
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You know, it kind of feels like last-minute gifts are not nearly as stressful as they were before the advent of the internet, next-day shipping and most importantly, never again having to go get in line with ...
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Web monitoring firm comScore has marked a recent 15 percent weekly increase in online holiday sales in what could possibly be the busiest week of the year.
According to the research company shoppers have spent $30.9 billion online ...
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Dozens of holiday shoppers using layaway programs all over the country have been experiencing a little holiday miracle of their own as secret santas have been paying off their in-store debt.
According to NPR the random acts of kindness ...
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It's December 12th, and crunch time for Christmas cards has officially set in.
If you engage in this yearly chore, it's probably one of the most time consuming activities you must undertake during the busy holiday season. Address ...
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Does your girlfriend, wife or mom seem have everything they want? For that hard to shop for girl in your life DKNY stores have a solution but it will cost you $1 million.
Designed in collaboration with famed ...
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Maybe we're all putting it on our credit cards.
Man, sometimes it feels like the recession has been going on for all of eternity- and to be fair to people my age, if you're in your very very ...
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While the effects of the 2008 financialocalypse are still being felt rather broadly, it doesn't seem the overall credit crunch put Americans off credit card use all that much in the long term. (Or maybe people are ...
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Black Friday turned into a buying bonanza for consumers this year and now it looks as if Cyber Monday managed to do the same, cashing in to the tune of $1.25 billion according to web research firm ...
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While most retail locations used Black Friday to push up their profits and get into the black (make money for the first time in the year), the executives at cafe & bake shop Tim Hortons tried a ...
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A 38-year-old folk artist from Vermont vows to fight fast food giant Chik-Fil-A for the right to keep printing his "Eat More Kale" shirts, as the chain has alleged the phrase infringes on their intellectual property.
Bo Muller-Moore, ...
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If you're feeling a bit pressured to spend, spend spend as the Cyber Monday deals filter across your Facebook and Twitter feeds, today is not the only day to save on your biggest Christmas and holiday purchases.
Sure, ...
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Now that we have the internet, the Black Friday phenomenon is so puzzling because we all know Cyber Monday exists.
If you're one of the clever multitudes that avoided waffle maker riots on Thursday night slash Friday morning, ...
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For those of us unable to brave the wilds that are retailers on Black Friday, Amazon will be kicking off their Cyber Monday sale starting at 12 AM sharp on Sunday, November 27.
If you'd like to get ...
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Okay, America, you can take a deep breath.
The great criminal mastermind of the 2011 holiday season- a woman that pepper sprayed twenty people at a California Walmart in a video game buying frenzy dubbed amusingly by my ...
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Sandwiched in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is the relatively new Small Business Saturday, a shopping day which essentially does what it says on the tin.
While unlikely to receive nationwide prominence due to some of the ...
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