holiday retail
Wilton, CT - Drawn by the mild weather and a national small business promotion, shoppers helped boost holiday sales in local stores this season, with most merchants in an informal survey reporting better results than...
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New York, NY - A major retail trade organization is announcing that holiday sales rose 4.1 percent, better than its forecast for a 3.8 percent gain. But the season was clouded by heavy discounting needed...
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Petoskey, MI - The 2011 holiday season brought gifts such as solid sales performance and store traffic for numerous Northern-Michigan based retailers."We were very happy," said Matt Norcross, owner of McLean and Eakin Booksellers in...
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Sidmouth, UK - MILD weather and lack of town centre road closures helped make Christmas 2011 a better one for Sidmouth's shopkeepers.Last year's snow and gas pipe replacement road closures caused grief among many traders,...
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Macomb, IL - While the holiday shopping season isn't quite finished and many retailers are still handling gift returns, processing gift cards and offering post-Christmas clearance sales, a number of small businesses in Macomb say...
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Newburyport, MA - Shoppers gave local retailers the best gift of all this season — a strong boost in sales to help soften the effects of what had otherwise been a lackluster year for business.Several...
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Asheville, NC - Sometimes in retail, running out of merchandise is a good sign."Our season was excellent — good traffic throughout and substantial increases over last year and over 2009," said Dean Peterson, general manager...
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Kalamazoo, MI - The Wild Goose Chase is what some would call camera-ready for the holiday season.Fully decorated Christmas trees adorn the front and west portions of the 22-year-old business' sales floor. Bing Crosby and...
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