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Discounts abound as stores try to salvage season
When it comes to fat holiday discounts, better late than never. This holiday shopping season, many stores haven't been offering the same blockbuster ...
Facebook users hit 'like,' stores jump into action
Facebook isn't just for goofy pictures and silly chatter. Whether shoppers know it or not, their actions online help dictate what's in stores during ...
Holiday shoppers may see big discounts soon
If shoppers don't show up in stores soon, more "70 percent off" sale signs will. After a promising start to the holiday shopping season over the ...
US holiday sales slowly pick up after Sandy
U.S. consumers shook off Superstorm Sandy last month and stepped up holiday shopping, helped by a steady job market and lower gas prices. Retail sales ...
Spanish botched fresco artist sells work on eBay
The 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous because of her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church is auctioning one of her ...
Gunman opens fire in Portland mall; 3 dead
A masked gunman wearing camouflage opened fire Tuesday in a busy Portland mall, leaving the gunman and two others dead and forcing the mall's Santa ...
3 dead, including gunman, in Oregon mall shooting
A gunman opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another as people were doing their Christmas ...
Webcam update: Lucy goes freelance to full-time
Since graduating in fashion over the summer, dissatisfied with how her university prepared her for real life, Lucy Nicholls has tried to make it in ...
LA ports reopen after crippling 8-day strike ends
Port clerks returned to work Wednesday, jubilant in the knowledge that an eight-day strike that paralyzed the nation's busiest shipping complex had ...
Somalia property boom forces refugees onto street
In parts of Somalia's capital, rubble-strewn lots that once served as sniper positions have been rebuilt into well-maintained homes, hotels and ...
Program trains farmworkers to be organic farmers
Bending over beds of shriveled strawberry plants, former farmworker Domitila Martinez pulls pieces of black plastic row covers in preparation for next ...
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis shake up hip-hop paradigm
Macklemore isn't afraid to tell you he was scared when he saw some of the destinations for his upcoming tour. Idaho. Montana. Texas. None of those ...
Retailers report weak sales gains for November
Black Friday was no match for Superstorm Sandy. Major retailers from Target to Macy's reported weak November sales as the strong start to the holiday ...
Microsoft ads deride Google as bad place to shop
Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine.
Fed survey: US economy growing at steady pace
A pickup in consumer spending and steady home sales helped lift economic growth from October through early November in most parts of the United ...
US economy gets lift from consumers, businesses
American consumers are growing more confident about the job market, companies are ordering more equipment and home prices are rising in most major ...
Oil prices up on brisk US retail sales, Greek deal
The price of oil inched up closer to $88 a barrel Tuesday as investors were encouraged by robust retail sales in the U.S. ahead of the Christmas ...
Cyber Monday likely to be busiest online sales day
Americans clicked away on their computers and smartphones for deals on Cyber Monday, which is expected to be the biggest online shopping day in ...
Despite talk of compromise, fiscal deal elusive
Talk of compromise on a broad budget deal greeted returning lawmakers Monday, but agreement still seemed distant as the White House and congressional ...
Asia stocks post slight gains after Black Friday
Asian stock markets posted slight gains Monday after the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season in the U.S. topped expectations, offsetting ...
Holiday shopping season off to record start
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 ...