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What fiscal cliff? Shoppers push up retail sales, prices fall
This post has been updated. See below for details.Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping. Retail sales across the nation rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December as Americans put fiscal cliff...Tags: Economic Indicator, Fiscal Cliff, Consumers, Vehicles, Prices
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Wal-mart plans $50 billion 'buy American' push
NEW YORK CITY -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc will buy an additional $50 billion in U.S.-made products over the next decade in areas like sporting goods and high-end appliances in what the world's largest retailer called a bid to help boost the U.S. economy. Wal-...
Tags: Memorial Day, Macy's, Inc., Groceries, Connecticut Labor Markets, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Orders must be shipped timely or refund offered
That last Christmas gift you ordered never seems to arrive on your doorstep quick enough. You hear the delivery truck rumble around the corner, but it just blows on past, several times a day. Jiminy Christmas, you may think, do I have to wait forever?...Tags: Allentown, Justice System, Consumers, Judges, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Other Voices
Like any successful company, Wal-Mart knows a public relations coup when it sees one. Plans announced recently are textbook perfect: The nation's largest private employer said it would hire every recent veteran seeking a job, amounting to 100,000...Tags: Global Change, Justice System, The Washington Post, Finance, U.S. Congress
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Retail Crime Rates Rise During The Holiday Season
With Black Friday in the books and Christmas right around the corner, retailers all over are gearing up for the busy holiday shopping season. As more people come and go from local stores, the threat of commercial theft is a major concern for retailers...
Tags: Holidays, The Home Depot, Theft
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White House issues new warning on 'fiscal cliff'
WASHINGTON -- On the heels of record sales over the Black Friday weekend, the White House warned that automatic federal tax increases set for next year could hurt the rest of the holiday shopping season and would likely crimp consumer spending by about...
Tags: Consumers, Black Friday (shopping), Labor Markets, Economic Indicator, Holidays
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Other Voices: Wal-Mart hiring veterans; paying for natural disasters
Wal-Mart's decision to hire veterans step in right direction Like any successful company, Wal-Mart knows a public relations coup when it sees one. Plans announced recently are textbook perfect: The nation’s largest private employer said it...Tags: Global Change, The Washington Post, Justice System, Finance, U.S. Congress
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Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension
The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...
Tags: Labor Legislation, International Relations, Wage Contract Issues, International Longshoremen's Association, Long Beach (Nassau, New York)
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Cyber Monday likely to be busiest online sales day
NEW YORK (AP) — Bye-bye Black Friday. So long Small Business Saturday. Now, it's Cyber Monday's turn. Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group that noticed online sales spiked on the Monday following Thanksgiving, is the next in a...
Tags: Sears, Apple iPad, Small Business Saturday, Black Friday (shopping), Hobbies
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Holiday shopping season off to record start
NEW YORK (AP) — If you make holiday shopping convenient, Americans will come in droves. It's estimated that U.S. shoppers hit stores and websites at record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey released by the National...
Tags: Taubman Centers Incorporated, Toy Industry, Consumers, Black Friday (shopping), Toys "R" Us, Inc.
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Black Friday Shopping Totals Hit New Record
CNNNEW YORK -- Apparently, full stomachs after Thanksgiving dinners get people in the mood for some real shopping. Customers flocked in to early store openings on Thanksgiving day to scoop up "doorbuster" deals. A record 247 million shoppers visited stores...Tags: Sears, IBM, Consumers, Dillard's Incorporated, Black Friday (shopping)
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Dealing with Debt around the Holidays
Multi-Media JournalistIt's a problem some consumers face around the holidays: overspending and starting the new year in debt. “When you get out amongst this cornucopia of merchandise with children saying I want this, I want this, I want this, I’m sure that it&...Tags: Federal Reserve, Kmart, Holidays, Credit and Debt, Finance
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