holidays

Small retailers set for Black Friday

Susie Mauldin estimates she goes through eight to 10 gallons of coffee on the day after Thanksgiving.Not personally, mind you. But the customers who frequent her Marietta Square boutique on Black Friday have been up... more »

Roseburg retailers stretching back Xmas shopping season

The Christmas shopping season isn't confined to December anymore.For more than a few years now, Christmas shopping has been stretched back months prior to that special day of giving and receiving gifts. Ornaments are displayed... more »

Retailers sprinkle pop-up stores across holiday landscape

Sacramento, CA -- Pop-up stores are making their presence felt in time for the holidays. These short-term outlets -- known as specialty retailers in the industry -- are not a new concept; holiday mainstay Hickory... more »

Holiday sales expected to jingle cash registers

Local retailers hope to hear more jingling in their cash registers as well as in their hearts this holiday shopping season. If early shopping trends are any indication, they might just get what they wish... more »

Retailers optimistic as holiday shopping season approaches

As the holiday shopping season kicks into gear, local retail store owners are hoping people are more in the spirit of giving this year than in recent Christmases past.As the economy declined in 2008, so... more »

Local Stores Ready For Holiday Shoppers

Columbia - Locally-owned retail shops said Monday they are ready to compete with big corporations for the early holiday shopping push. Those local shops are already getting holiday shoppers thanks to their efforts to sell... more »

Knoxville shops try to keep holiday shopping local

Knoxville, Tenn. -- With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, a new movement wants shoppers to buy from local businesses this holiday season.The idea sprang from Metropulse newspaper, which targeted area businesses that... more »

Holiday spending boost expected

When Lynette Boisvert started displaying Christmas items in her Classic Duck gift shop in Santa Rosa's Montgomery Village in mid-October, she didn't expect sales to pick up until after Halloween.But to her surprise the ornaments... more »