- Mark Levin Signs Multi-year Deal with ABC, Expands Show to 3 Hours
- Consumerist.com Adopted by Old-School Consumers Union, Stops Selling Ads
- For Auto Industry, 2009 Holds Even Tighter Ad Budgets
- User-Generated Magazine Publisher 8020 Media Shuts Doors
- Out-of-Home, Fueled by Digital, to Weather Recession Well
- Clear Channel Swaps Cincy Stations for Five in Green Bay
- Consumers Swarm to Discounters for Grocery Items, Don’t Switch Back
- Wikimedia Raises $6.2M to Keep Wikipedia Afloat
- Conde Nast’s Jan. Ad Pages Slip More than Most
- Aegis Faces Possible Sale or Spin-off of Non-core Businesses
- Top US Cities for Charitable Givers, by Category
- Online Fitness, Video Game Spending Outperforms Brick-And-Mortar
- RIM Must Fix Glitches, Boost Satisfaction To Hold Off iPhone
- LCD TV Revenue to Fall YoY for First Time Ever
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- Top 10 Sports Websites - November 2008
- Eight in 10 Online Holiday Shoppers Read Web Reviews
- Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index: Merry Outlook for Some, but Not Others
- Firefox Share Tops 20% in November
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Post-Christmas Sales Proliferate
Major retailers are offering post-Christmas, yearend, and clearance sales to lure shoppers back into stores during what has so far been a dismal retail season that has left retailers with bulging inventories they need to clear to make room for spring inventory, writes US News & World Report.
This year’s shorter holiday-shopping season—27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared with 32...
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Short Shopping Season, Winter Weather Result in Deep Discounts
When times are tougher—and the holiday-shopping season (five days) shorter—than usual, retailers are resorting to staying open later, even for 24 hours a day, and dropping prices to post-Christmas levels.
The Toys “R” Us flagship store in NY, along with Macy’s, H&M, L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart Stores, and others have been open day and night or otherwise extended their hours to capture as many shoppers...
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Campbell’s Soup Partners with ‘Tale of Despereaux’
Campbell Soup Company has entered into its first-ever major movie partnership—with Universal Pictures’ animated adventure ”The Tale of Despereaux” for its condensed soup brands—including an on-pack promotion on 50 million labels of participating Campbell’s Chicken Noodle and Tomato soup cans.
Based on the award-winning book by Philadelphia-born author Kate DiCamillo, “The Tale of Despereaux”...
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Toys ‘R’ Us Flagship to Open 24 Hours a Day
The Toys “R” Us Times Square flagship store will be open 24 hours starting 6 AM, Dec. 19, to 8 PM, Dec. 24—or 134 consecutive hours—the company said Tuesday (via Crains New York).
The Toys “R” Us decision comes day after competitor KB Toys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and began prepping going-out-of-business sales.
“We want to be sure our customers have enough time to select the...
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Wal-Mart Steps In Where Music Labels Fear to Tread - and Succeeds
With their incredible sales clout, big-box retail might be saving bands that seem past their prime and which the music industry doesn’t quite know what to do with, Ad Age reports.
This past summer, Wal-Mart signed a deal with AC/DC, an 80s metal band that many thought was well past its heyday, that gave it exclusive selling rights to the group’s upcoming album.
Wal-Mart sold a chart-topping...
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Wal-Mart Stores Open All Day in Canada; 66% to Holiday-Shop There
Wal-Mart Canada is keeping 192 of its stores open 24 hours a day, through Christmas Eve, reports UPI. It already had 30 stores open all day long—25 of them since January.
The company cited a survey according to which four in ten Canadians said their choice of shopping destination in part depends on extended store hours. (More results from that survey, below.)
”[T]he popularity of 24-hour...
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Dec. 19 Deadline for Free-by-Christmas Shipping
Most online retailers (68.1%) are imposing a deadline of Friday, Dec. 19, for ground shipping with delivery by Christmas, according to the 2008 Shop.org/Shopzilla eHoliday study of 2,040 online buyers and 60 online retailers.
More than one-third (34%) of retailers will make the expiration date on or before Tuesday, Dec. 16, writes the National Retail Federation (NRF). Some are already cutting...
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Thousands of Nintendo Wiis Become Available on Walmart.com
The Nintendo Wii, arguably the hottest gift this season—and one of the hardest to find—will be available by thousands on walmart.com, starting at $249.24, Wal-Mart said. Wii videogames will also available, with select titles at two for $30.
Wii accessories, such as the Wii Racing Wheel, will also be sold, starting under $10.
Wal-Mart’s Nintendo Wii Value Bundle, which includes console, game,...
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Nov. Sales the Worst in 35 Years
Despite the shopping frenzy that took place on the last few days of the month, retail sales in November are the weakest they’ve been in 35 years, according to the International Council for Shopping Centers (ICSC) index.
The index, which tracks year-over-year same-store sales at US chain stores, dropped a record 2.7%, said the ICSC. And unlike preceding months—when a few segments still had...
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Retailers, Manufacturers Face Off on Minimum Advertised Pricing
A 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling (pdf) that found manufacturers’ efforts to set a “minimum advertised price” (MAP) for retail products do not run afoul of antitrust laws is quickly leading to a confrontation between manufacturers’ MAP enforcers and retailers, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Representatives of discounters such as eBay, Costco, and online retailers, as well as consumer groups and the...
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