Joan Verdon/The Record—Retailers like to refer to this weekend as the Super Bowl of shopping. This year, however, it will be a whole new ballgame. A number of the leading players are adding extra shopping time with stores opening on Thanksgiving and round-the-clock operations into Friday night. At Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, where most of […]
Archives for November 2013
Black-and-blue retailers bet on ‘Gray Thursday’
Brian O’Connor/The Detroit News—If you want to know why malls and big-box retailers are opening as early as 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving, the answer is the same you’ll hear from the throng of shoppers surging through the doors for those blockbuster holiday deals: fear of missing out. Retailers know that opening earlier won’t prompt shoppers […]
Forecast of more jingle in Seattle holiday shopping
Amy Martinez/Seattle Times—Faced with economic uncertainty, Des Moines parents Audrey and Ishmael Scarborough are sticking closely to a budget this holiday season despite an uptick in their personal finances. She’ll head out early Friday morning to join the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy, while her husband, a paralegal, browses the Internet for deals at home. “Things are […]
Wise shoppers find deals not only on Black Friday
Georgea Kovanis/Detroit Free Press—Think everyone you know will be shopping during all those Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales? You may be surprised to learn lots of them will be having a second slice of pie and sleeping late. “I’m extremely price conscious,” said Andrea Westfall, 36, of Sterling Heights, adding that she reads sale circulars, […]
Black Friday shoppers get set to go
Justine Griffin/Sarasota Herald-Tribune—Between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and three weeks of shopping from now to Christmas, shoppers have more options than ever to get all the gifts on their holiday lists. Southwest Florida moms Melissa Tomasso and Beth McCullagh are two of the 140 million people who are expected to shop during […]
Let’s talk turkey about shopping on the holiday
Amy Martinez/Seattle Times—Another Thanksgiving tradition is elbowing its way in to join the turkey carving, post-meal nap and football-game watch party: the hunt for a “door-buster” deal. The Friday after Thanksgiving long has marked the official start of the holiday shopping season. But increasingly, the kickoff is happening on Thanksgiving evening — just as most […]
