If you are looking to make post-Christmas shopping plans, the biggest sales may not be the day after. Rather, look for New Year’s Day, experts suggested. The”trend began about five years ago, and gift cards are”to blame for the switch. It seems people shop like mad with the cards before New Year’s Day, thinking [...]
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FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - German retailers association HDE said Christmas sales have not yet reached the good figures from last year, with consumers being held back by high petrol prices and springlike climate. Retailers hope sales will rise in the remaining two weeks before Christmas, it added. ‘Many consumers feel like buying presents the [...]
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UK retail sales rose 1.2% on a like-for-like basis, compared with November 2006, when sales were up only 0.5%. November’s growth is just above October’s 1.0% but well below the average for both 2006 and 2007 to date. The three-month trend rate of growth fell to 1.8% from 2.0% in October for like-for-like sales, [...]
Some of the country’s biggest department stores are offering discounts of up to 25 per cent off everything as warnings of a downturn in sales begin to gather pace. Retailers including Arnotts, Debenhams and Clerys are all holding major sale days with a full 23 days still left before Christmas. Arnotts held a weekend [...]
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Many of the stores visited were already decked out with lights, trees and other seasonal ornaments. In downtown Kingston, on King Street, there wasn’t much reflection of the approaching Christmas holiday, except for very few stores which had Christmas sales and decorations. Manager of ‘Best Mart’, Linval Russell, said his store’s sale started two [...]
By Chris Duffy When you find them on store shelves, energy-efficient LEDs are more expensive than standard Christmas lights But the LEDs can make more financial sense for people in the long run. We made it our mission to find out the real difference in cost between the traditional Christmas lights and [...]
BY Amber Miller Reporter Send e-mailBiography Email to a Friend Printer Friendly It s not even Thanksgiving yet, but it seems many people are already thinking about Christmas.