Cyber Monday was the heaviest online spending day ever. Cyber Week brought in $6 billion — a record. And there were three days that week that eclipsed a billion dollars in spending. Bottom line: The online holiday shopping …
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Amazon Flurry Deals: A Week’s Worth of One-Day-Only Holiday Discounts
You have to hand it to Amazon: The e-retail giant knows how to drag out a shopping season. Its Black Friday promotions didn’t start a mere day, or even a week early, but 24 days before the Friday after Thanksgiving. While most …
Watch Out Amazon: Google Looking to Venture into Delivery Services
After watching Amazon corner the online retail market, Google is in talks with merchants to begin a delivery service that would allow users to order items online from local stores and receive them within a day. But does it make …
Check Out All the Best Cyber Monday Shopping Deals
After blockbuster sales figures on Black Friday, retailers are expecting consumers to keep up the shopping pace on Cyber Monday. Shoppers have plenty of tempting offers to choose from.
How Smartphones, Price-Check Apps, and Daily Deals Are Changing Black Friday—and the Entire Holiday Shopping Season
Smartphones—and therefore, deals—are everywhere this holiday season. This means that shoppers should have an especially easy time getting the best price on gifts. Then again, it also means that retailers have an especially …
Amazon Prime Loses $11 Annually Per Member … And It’s a Huge Success
Membership in Amazon Prime—the online retail giant’s packaged service that includes free two-day shipping on all orders, free streaming of online movies and TV shows, and one free Kindle book to borrow monthly—costs $79 a …
Holiday Price Wars: Hot Market for e-Readers Under $100, Tablets Under $200
If there’s one thing that the mad rush on $99 HP TouchPad tablets proved in late summer, it’s that there are plenty of price-sensitive consumers in the marketplace. They’ll bite on tablets and e-readers, but only if the price is …
Amazon Supports a Bill Forcing Online Shoppers to Pay Sales Tax
The days of skirting around having to pay retail sales tax by shopping online may be coming to a close—and Amazon, of all companies, is supporting the effort.
Black Friday Deals That Start 24 Days Before Black Friday
Talk about extending the holiday shopping season! Black Friday won’t take place for another three weeks—the day after Thanksgiving, specifically. Black Friday is also, quite obviously, a single day. These facts haven’t gotten …
Why Barnes & Noble is Selling Rugs
Last week, Barnes & Noble started selling items like rugs and cooking utensils on its website. “If shoppers are buying cookbooks from bn.com, it’s natural to offer them cooking supplies at the same time; if shoppers are buying new …
99 Money Tips: Save on Concerts, Smartphone Plans, Auto Expenses, DIY Projects, and Debt Collector Confrontations
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Retailers with the Best (and Worst) Return Policies
At the retail store, most sales staffers are understandably focused on the sale, not the return policy. So it’s often totally up to the consumer to investigate where the store’s policies fall on the spectrum from downright stingy …