It is a month when margin sales are lower as stores promote heavy clearance discounts to make way for holiday products, so the most reliable forecast we might get from a look at the sales data is whether Snooki beat a zombie for most popular Halloween costume this year.
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Wednesday's SuperSession with Brian Dunn, CEO of Best Buy, and CEA's Shapiro talked about hot selling products this holiday season and the retailer's strategy.
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It may not seem like a lot in your one household, but an entire community can really have an impact on the environment by recycling all of the cardboard and paper products this holiday season.
Other innovations include giving guests the ability to quickly and easily shop the products in our holiday TV and direct-mail ads with a text-to-buy feature.
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She helped hand out 1, 600 boxes containing food (including holiday turkeys) and hygiene products to 800 families, some of whom had waited in line up to six hours in 30-degree weather to receive the goods.
At the same time, we support the PlayStation 2 platform well into the 6th, 7th, 8th year, and will be until 10 years with products like God of War 2 and SOCOM, which will be out this holiday-- you know, core-gamer products.
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No guarantees that RIMM has compelling products on time for holiday season.
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However each of these two groups make the call when it comes time to buy things such as groceries, cleaning products, clothing and holiday shopping.
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Looking ahead, the company expects to see margins contract further in the next quarter as it looks to launch a number of lower margin new products ahead of the holiday season in what is going to be the broadest product refresh cycle in its history.
He foresees a grim holiday season of empty shelves and lackluster products.
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This handy holiday feature lets you bucket all your products (and reviews) into a single file, rather than bookmarking and saving URLs.
Phonemakers are gearing up for the holiday season with an array of new products that snap and transmit pictures, add sound clips or double as a portable office.
There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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Wal-Mart seems to be adopting a mixed approach to drive holiday sales instead of just purely discounting all the products to drive store volumes.
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"The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.
Q4 is different from other quarters because manufacturers introduced a bevy of new products at the end of August for sale by the holiday season.
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Shorting Apple near a holiday season, when it will have shelves full of recently-introduced products like the iPhone 5, fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini, could be a dicey proposition though.
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Lara Shriftman, publicist and party-giver extraordinaire (her line of party products is sold on the Home Shopping Network) throws a holiday party every year for Lulu Flynn, her 3-year-old miniature Shih Tzu, and Lulu's doggy pals, including actress Lara Flynn Boyle's Shih Tzu, Greta Garbo, and tennis champ Serena Williams' Jack Russell, Jackie.
Today, Target announced it was extending holiday price matching through the year, promising to match competitors advertised prices on products found both in stores and online.
This time, Apple entered the holiday quarter with a new handset to complement a slate of strong-selling products, including the MacBook Air and the iPad 2.
The company's out-front ingenuity offers us a lens through which to measure the attempts of other PC makers and mobile technology companies to offer products to meet the apparent demand that was not likely limited to the holiday season.
In order to optimize the supply chain for new products, the company took back NOOK Simple Touch inventory following the previously announced holiday sales shortfall.
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People don't realize that lead is all over their homes in a wide variety of products, particularly in things like extension cords and wire and cable, your holiday string lights when you're stringing them up this year, you'll probably see a warning label that says that the product contains lead, known to be a toxic chemical in the state of California.
However, we continue to see AAPL as a likely stand-out this holiday shopping season, with a stable of new and what we consider best-in-class products, including the iPhone 5, fourth generation iPad, and iPad Mini.
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