Christmas Santa

10/24/2007 5:53:25 PM Christmas shopping season seems to come earlier and earlier each year. With “Christmas in July” sales followed shortly by actual displays of dishes and decorations, retailers are finding innovative ways to lure shoppers into their stores. With Wal-Mart’s recent announcement of early price slashing, one might wonder if black Friday [...]

December. From the famous voice of “Mr.

Heritage Christmas Lights of Love deadline approaching The deadline for registering for the Greencastle-Antrim Heritage Christmas Lights of Love program is approaching.

The final batch of tickets for Glasgow s Christmas Lights switch-on will be released at 9am this Saturday (27 October 2007). Free tickets are available for the event which takes place in George Square on 18 November. The switch in is part of Winterfest Glasgow, the city’s packed programme of festive celebrations.

2007 MANATEE, Fla. — A Marine’s wife in Manatee has big plans for troops celebrating the holidays in Iraq: mini Christmas trees Hala Harper wants to ship them 1,000 artificial trees adorned with candy canes, lights and pictures of loved ones. She got the idea after hearing how her husband’s fellow Marines reacted to [...]

A report from SciVisum, a firm that specialises in creating and testing web applications, has said that many retailers face losing out on this revenue as visitors get frustrated with the errors they encounter. Companies wanting to maximise their online sales this Christmas need to check the performance of their sites now. Those that fail [...]

Council workers are to be given a fully paid afternoon off to do their Christmas shopping - and taxpayers will foot the bill. Staff at Leicestershire County Council say that by paying their workers while they are out shopping for festive treats it will prevent them from skiving off nearer the big day. [...]

One of the “hottest” cutters at Halloween is the antique black cat, according to Paisner, who said cookies dressed up as black cats were very popular at the CCCC meeting. The collector who brought the cookies had used an antique carnival mask as the model for her cutter, she said. “You wouldn’t believe how [...]

Middleton Christmas lights will be twinkling once again for the festive season with the big official switch on to take place on Saturday 17 November. A whole day of activities are planned before the Mayor Cllr Peter Evans flicks the switch at 4.30pm.