KBB.com asked visitors to its car-shopping website last week what sort of shifter they preferred.
WSJ: Changing Gears: Auto Makers Ditch Familiar Shift Levers
Rival Kmart has extended Black Friday from a one-day event to a seven-week shopping stretch.
FORBES: Retailers Roll Out Gimmicks to Lure Holiday Shoppers
We are in the midst of holiday shopping so this week I am focusing on seven buy rated Retail-Wholesale stocks.
FORBES: Wal-Mart, Macy's And Five Other Retailers To Buy And Trade
Nearly one in five planned to leave their online and mail order shopping until the week leading up to Christmas.
With so much at stake, retailers are seizing this four-week shopping season to unveil new approaches and evaluate their effectiveness.
FORBES: Holiday Shopping Trends: Making A List And Checking In Twice
They tend to spend many hours each week shopping and spending.
Business leaders feared they would lose the much-needed revenue an extra week of shopping would afford them.
WHITEHOUSE: From the Archives: Thanksgiving with the Presidents | The White House
In China TV shipments increased 13% y-o-y in Q3 driven by holiday shopping during the Golden Week holiday in October.
Carlyle's bankers are expected to begin shopping the shares to investors this week in a so-called roadshow.
Well apparently we are thriftily using up what we buy in our main shopping expedition some time during the week, and then popping out to smaller shops to top up.
Another potential boon to holiday sales: According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, shoppers had only completed 32.6% of their shopping by the beginning of this week, less than about 42% a year earlier.
WSJ: Retailers November Sales Show Healthy Start to Holiday Season
HauteLook CEO Adam Bernhard thinks that the biggest shopping days of the season will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week as consumers may need a break from Black Friday shopping.
FORBES: CyberMonday: They Came, They Binged, Now They're Going Home
It also sends weekly reminders to plan dinners for the week and print out a shopping list and coupons.
Last week, CNN reported that two shopping centers, Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va.
The collection hit Target stores on December 1, sandwiched between the two most promotional peaks in the holiday shopping season: Black Friday and the final week before Christmas, he said.
Yet according to the creators of a new shopping tool called Shopobot, such price swings happen every week, sometimes every day, as retailers adopt more sophisticated techniques to test out different price points.
The app generates shopping lists based on the recipes you've selected for the week and alerts you to local sales on items on your meal plan or those marked as preferred.
Traditionally the week after Thanksgiving is slower in stores as the urgency to keep shopping in stores is reduced.
FORBES: Black Friday, The Kick-Off To A Happy Holiday Season
The three companies sold a large number of Windows 8 PCs last week as consumers endured massive crowds and long lines on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Foot traffic in West London, which includes the Oxford Street and Regent Street shopping areas, was down 12% on Saturday from the same day the previous week.
The former tax-bureau worker is among the throngs of seniors who meet every week at the Swedish retailer's cafeteria in Shanghai's Xuhui shopping district to take a second shot at romance.
WSJ: In China, IKEA Is a Swede Place for Senior Romance, Relaxation
Annette Dobbs, who owns the small shopping center where the studio was located, said authorities padlocked the door to it last week.
With the new location a whopping 1.2km (0.7 miles) from end to end, visitors may find themselves shopping for new shoes, as well as new phones, by the end of the week.
Markets opened down Monday morning, signaling the anticipation for a bailout package for Ireland and a holiday week in the U.S. that will see the first major holiday shopping day of the year with Black Friday.
Mobile apps have become the proverbial Swiss Army Knife of shopping, helping consumers shop a dozen times a day rather than 2-3 times per week.
FORBES: Holiday Shopping Trends: Making A List And Checking In Twice
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.
Some will get a jump start and begin shopping two months before the new school year (21.8%) and the remainder will shop the week school starts (2.0%) or after school starts (2.6%).
Casie Stewart, a 28-year-old social-media consultant from Toronto, has earned a free Virgin America flight, a shopping splurge at Mark's Work Wearhouse and an all-expenses-paid trip to New Zealand fashion week thanks to her prolific tweeting and blogging about her life.
WSJ: Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web's New Social Scorekeepers
While 4K TVs are excellent, for the next couple of years most of us will still be selecting a 1080p model when we're out shopping, and now we've got a little more detail about some of the new ones Sony announced last week.
ENGADGET: Quantum dots help return 'Triluminos' RGB LED lighting to Sony HDTVs
应用推荐