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, […]
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Apple Store set for University Town Center
Justine Griffin/Sarasota Herald-Tribune—Apple fans, rejoice. An Apple Store will open in the Mall at University Town Center. Apple lists Sarasota as one of the 23 sites for stores in the Florida market on its jobs website, although no jobs are currently listed. Sarasota is the only locale on the list of Florida cities that does […]
Despite complaints, Black Friday continues to creep into Thanksgiving
Kavita Kumar/St. Louis Post-Dispatch—And … they’re off. The Cardinals weren’t the only ones in the midst of a dogfight. Faced with what is shaping up to be a lackluster holiday shopping season, retailers are pulling out all the stops in an effort to get more customers through their doors. So it probably shouldn’t have been […]
CityTarget woos Portland State shoppers with Back to College Night
Nicole Friedman/The Oregonian—Hundreds of Portland State University students boarded buses to CityTarget in downtown Portland Tuesday night to buy dorm-room essentials and hang out with friends at the store’s first Back to College Night. More than 800 students — mostly freshmen — showed up, said store manager Vincson Green. From 10 to 11 p.m., Target […]
New Outlets For Growth
Joel Groover/Shopping Centers Today—Minutes after the July ribbon-cutting for The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta, Barbara Moore stood before the store directory, grinning at the sight of a 99-brand lineup brimming with the likes of Kate Spade, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th and Talbots. “I live in western North Carolina and drove a little over a hundred miles to come down for this opening,” the shopper said. “This is so important to us, because we don’t have stores like this where we live. Even though I do a lot of online shopping, I like to come and see for myself and get the look and feel.”
What not to wear when you shop
Quentin Fottrell/MarketWatch—When trying to land a job, most experts say one should look their best. When trying to land a deal, however, experts say it sometimes pays to look like a schlub. Just ask Oprah Winfrey. Asked why a sales clerk at the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich declined to show her a $38,000 Tom […]
