Most recently, he hired someone to bake cupcakes for his girlfriend for her birthday, after a photo of some cupcakes caught his eye on shopping site the Fancy.

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This forty seventh trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors keeping a close eye on retailers as the holiday shopping season kicks off.

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The lesson in all this: In stock picking, as in shopping, bargains are in the eye of the beholder.

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It's perhaps with one eye on this that Carwyn Jones has submitted his shopping list to Silk.

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When she's shopping, Hill says, people make eye contact with her more often and wait on her right away.

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By using this new system, I checked off my shopping list without even having to bat an eye at the thought of how I was actually going to get it there.

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Keep an eye on retail ETFs today, as reports from the latest holiday shopping weekend roll in.

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