Remember the days when, after a nice Thanksgiving meal, you would sit down and think about all the gifts you planned to buy the next day during Black Friday sales at the major retailers?   Yes, I’m talking about last year.

Kmart has other ideas than lay-away to combat tough economic times this year.  Namely, the […]

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I knew it was only a matter of time before other big box retailers hopped on Wal-Mart’s back in an attempt to lure in early Christmas shoppers and fight off economic doldrums.  Well, I saw the first evidence of this new trend last night on a television commercial.

Retail giant, Kmart, has a new 30-second spot […]

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Leave it to Wal-Mart to try to make the best of a bad situation.  The world’s biggest retailer just announced that they have a plan to drive holiday sales.  Their plan?  The early bird gets the shoppers.

According to this week’s Advertising Age, Wal-Mart plans to start advertising holiday sale items now.  Normally retailers wait until […]

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The $700 billion bailout bill finally passed the House of Representatives today, albeit, with some changes and additions to the bill’s original form.  While the day did see a slight bump upward for retail stocks, the S&P Retail Index closed lower than it did yesterday, and overall the index is down 11.7% from a week […]

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