It is in new areas that credit cards have the edge, specifically shopping over the internet.
PayPal recently reported that global mobile shopping over the Thanksgiving period more than doubled.
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Speaking of Halloween, she remembered last year, when their cornstalk column had tipped their shopping cart over.
However, Hunt cautions against taking children window-shopping or over-exposing them to stores, which may encourage consumerism and impulse buying.
These are stores where most of us have been or will be before the shopping season is over.
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Compulsive shopping was described over a century ago by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin.
Sales typically decrease in January after the holiday shopping rush is over.
Designer labels, which Indians once travelled abroad to buy, adorn pricey goods in shopping centres all over Delhi, Mumbai and India's other big cities.
The other two great buying periods are immediately after the back-to-school shopping season and mid to late December after the holiday shopping frenzy is over.
To answer the question I posed at the start of this article Is the Internet shopping gravy train over for Amazon, eBay and others?
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Chances are investment-style shopping will carry over well into 2009.
They can take comfort in one thought: consumers ought to have plenty of money left over after shopping for groceries.
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Her clothes hung over the shopping cart make me suspect that the Google car caught her in the act of bathing.
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The city centers are chaotic, and the contents of a shopping list are distributed over dozens of different stores or street stands.
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Customers have been shopping on Amazon for over 15 years, and they continue to do so because of the unparalleled end-to-end customer experience.
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That fact helps explain why, as more and more shopping has moved online over the past ten years, sales tax revenue has declined dramatically.
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After Microsoft announced it would shut down its Bing Cashback program, Amazon decided to aggressively pursue talks with Bing about taking over the shopping experience on Bing.
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The judge may have noticed tabloid photos published Tuesday purporting to show Lohan shopping in New York over the weekend -- with no apparent signs of illness.
Back in 2007, Mr. Stern was sued in civil court along with his business associate Ephraim Frenkel and First Republic Realty Group by Westland Industries, a California financing company, over the shopping-mall deal.
The company has traditionally focused its business on the English-speaking market -- it has over 100 shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, UK and the U.S. -- but last year extended its global reach into the fast growing Brazilian market.
News flash: Amazon.com sold millions of Kindle tablets and e-readers over the holiday shopping season.
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Drink, relatives, lack of sleep and the stress of Christmas shopping can push some people over the edge.
Rackspace took over an abandoned shopping mall in downtown San Antonio and built an amazingly scaled-up cloud hosting center.
What's more, ZapMedia has apparently been shopping the earlier patent for over a year now to no avail -- doesn't seem like anyone's interested, now does it?
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In our last article, we noted that while a lot of hype and sensationalism surround Black Friday, the actual start of the holiday shopping season has moved earlier over the past few years.
We wake up to some one being run over by a Target shopping cart.
The Abbey Shopping Centre in Abingdon was refurbished over the past year but some shop units remain empty.
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Of the 20 REITs on our list this issue, the five best performers in growth over five years are shopping mall outfits.
Maura Maupin, a 40-year-old mother of three, unfurls an immense receipt from her latest shopping trip, when she handed over 122 coupons for 346 items.
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