More Americans hunted for bargains over the weekend than ever before as retailers lured them online and into stores with big discounts and an earlier-than-usual start to the holiday shopping season. A record 226 million shoppers visited stores and websites during the four-day holiday weekend starting on Thanksgiving Day, up from 212 million last year, according to early estimates by The National Retail Federation released on Sunday. Americans spent more, too: The average holiday shopper spent $398.62 over the weekend, up from $365.34 a year ago.
Nov 27 2011 | Posted in
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A shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargain-hunters crowded stores in an earlier-than-usual start to the madness known as Black Friday.
Nov 25 2011 | Posted in
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Josh Bender, 18, lifts weights at the Delaware Community Center YMCA a few days after the facility opened to the public. The afternoon following Thanksgiving, more than 230 people accessed the center and 22 people signed up for memberships, according to membership coordinator Matt Kifle.
Nov 25 2011 | Posted in
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Thanksgiving is behind us and thus a new season is upon us — Michigan season. After all, Thanksgiving was yesterday and Advent doesn’t begin until Sunday, so something has to fill the gap. In Ohio, that something is clearly focused on the football game to be played tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Hamburger Inn’s kitchen was stocked Tuesday with all the Thanksgiving trimmings, including 36 turkeys, 200 pounds of potatoes, 15 full pans of stuffing, 10 pans of cinnamon roll bread pudding and 10 sweet potato encrusted casseroles.
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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SAN FRANCISCO — Like Santa Claus on that one foggy Christmas Eve, Microsoft has summoned Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to guide some precious cargo — a holiday marketing campaign for its Bing search engine.
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — With a wave of his hand, President Barack Obama on Wednesday gave two plump turkeys a Thanksgiving reprieve, noting that without his intervention, “they’d end up next to the mashed potatoes and stuffing.”
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Occupy protesters want shoppers to occupy something besides door-buster sales and crowded mall parking lots on Black Friday. Some don’t want people to shop at all. Others just want to divert shoppers from big chains and giant shopping malls to local mom-and-pops. And while the actions don’t appear coordinated, they have similar themes: supporting small businesses while criticizing the day’s dedication to conspicuous consumption and the shopping frenzy that fuels big corporations.
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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