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Retailers offering new perks to encourage gift card giving
What's on your Christmas wish list? If the National Retail Federation is right, gift cards are probably holding a respectable place toward the top of the list. These little pieces of plastic are requested most... more »
Season of cautious optimism
With the holiday shopping season near, retailers in the Yuba-Sutter area are saying "cautious optimism" almost as much as they'll be saying "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays."Though no one's likely to mistake shopping trends this... more »
This holiday season, retailers will emphasize ‘value’
The deals are already calling you.Take an extra 30 percent off plus $10 credit for every $50 spent. Any boot, 50 percent off. Choose from 100 toys for $10. Not good enough? How about 75... more »
Experts say holiday sales should improve, with wide price chopping
Retail experts expect at least slightly better Christmas holiday sales this year than last, assuming things can't get much worse than 2008's shopping season, which arrived in the midst of a near meltdown of the... more »
Jellybean Welcomes Mary Engelbreit
Jellybean™ is pleased to welcome veteran artist, ©Mary Engelbreit to the line. In 2010, Jellybean™ will offer several designs featuring this prolific artist's easily recognizable designs. Mary's charming style and nostalgic themes hearken back to... more »
Ambiente 2010: the year’s most important award ceremonies, trend presentations and events
Along with its 4,300 or so international exhibitors, it is above all the numerous award ceremonies, trend presentations and events that make Ambiente what it is year after year: the major consumer-goods event of the... more »
Accent on Design Accepts New Exhibitions
White Plains, NY — Five countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and Taiwan - and seven states - California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas - are represented among new companies accepted... more »
Meet Your Merchant: Luxuries await shoppers at Home Treasures
Susie Messina admits her gift boutique in the Carson Mall is all about the wants, not the needs.Home Treasures, which Messina, 54, co-owns with Dawn Henderson, 48, is the sort of store that is filled... more »
Lavender Thymes has always been ahead of theirs
Since Jean Iverson opened her business more than 20 years ago, she has expanded twice, moved once and was ahead of her time when it came to the now common practice of "cross merchandising."She credits... more »
West Village stores prosper in new homes
Call it making lemonade out of lemons.Four tenants in the Village West Shopping Center -- Elegant Bridals, The Antique Market, Georgia-Lina Billiards and Coco's Cabana -- were forced to move out to accommodate a new... more »
Holiday shoppers going social, mobile
If you're looking for just the right gift for Aunt Sally, you may find yourself turning to social networks and your mobile phone this holiday-shopping season.More consumers expect that these two aspects of technology will... more »
You buy, and the store gives to charity
It's one of the most iconic images of the Christmas season: On a snowy night outside a department store, shoppers drop money in the kettle of a Salvation Army bell-ringer. The holidays are known as... more »
