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Shoppers took advantage of Black Friday discounts to snap up televisions, laptop computers and robot hamsters at Best Buy Co., Target Corp. and Toys “R” Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, drew crowds with $298 Hewlett-Packard laptop computers and other doorbuster specials that went on sale […]
Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com. In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the two heavyweight retailers are waging an online price war […]
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In early 2007, Rob Sherer approached Market Street in The Woodlands to see about launching in the center his comfort footwear concept, All About Feet. There wasn’t much interest, Sherer says, so he opened his first store in the Vintage Park shopping center in northwest Houston. But in the summer of this year, a […]
SOURCE: Newsone.com In a move that’s sure to delight debit cardholders nationwide, the Federal Reserve today imposed a new rule prohibiting banks from automatically enrolling customers in “overdraft protection” plans, CNN Money reports. These shady programs — which banks have claimed are meant to help customers — allow debit cardholders to spend money they don’t […]
A settlement between mobile phone users and companies that charged them for downloaded ringtones and games they thought were free was approved by a court on Tuesday. Each approved claimant will have the option to receive either a cash award or a refund of $10, out of a total settlement fund capped at as much as […]
