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ThinkstockPerhaps it was the bad weather in the Northeast the kept many shoppers home this weekend or perhaps shoppers are waiting for retailers to drop prices further, but the result seems to be...
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courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The spread of estimates of how holiday sales did over the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday is wide. NRF reported that Thanksgiving Holiday spending...
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.You know it has been a tough year for a stock when the market is up more than 25% but the stock is down. Underperformance in an up market can happen for many reasons....
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Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) admitted that the discounts it gave on gifts during its Black Friday Deals Week and Cyber Monday Deals Week are over. Like every other retailer, it has...
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ThinkstockShopper traffic fell 21.6% year-over-year in the week ending December 8th according to the latest survey data from ShopperTrak released Wednesday. Sales compared with the same period a year...
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MicrosoftIn an announcement Wednesday morning touting its sale of more than 2 million of its new Xbox One game consoles, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) said, “Demand is exceeding supply in our 13...
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ThinkstockSo far, the list of reasons shoppers may let down the retail industry this year includes unemployment that is still at high levels, weak store sales over the Thanksgiving weekend and a...
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courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Major retailers have not let up on offering discounts — even a little. The trend could pull in shoppers who did not exhaust their budgets on the Thanksgiving to Black...
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What do the demographics of American’s shoppers look like, and where do they shop based on their incomes? Gallup claims it knows, Americans with annual household incomes of $75,000 or more are...
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ThinkstockMany holiday season analysts point to the skies to determine how well retail sales may do. Their logic is that very bad weather will keep people out of malls and shopping centers. Many of...
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ThinkstockProtests and strikes by fast-food workers are expected to spread to 100 U.S. cities Thursday. This comes a little more than a year after a strike in New York, when 200 workers walked off...
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courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The holiday season seems as good a time as any to question whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) can afford to pay its workforce, some of whom make as little as $8 an...
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thinkstockMarkets opened down Wednesday morning and aside from a late morning push into positive territory, stocks have languished below the flat line since. The Nasdaq Composite did manage a scant...
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Wikimedia CommonsWithout mentioning a single fact, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Wednesday morning that the past weekend’s shopping was the best ever for its Kindle family of products....
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ThinkstockProtests demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour from fast-food restaurants will begin Wednesday with demonstrations at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) restaurants in five U.S. cities —...
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