Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, and all the usual suspects down at the mall are hardly the only businesses trying to grab consumers’ attention this weekend.
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It’s a Deal: 50% Off at Boston Market This Weekend
Boston Market is giving shoppers incentive to not cook over this busy holiday weekend (so they can shop more, presumably). Print out this coupon and you’ll receive 50% off any Family Meal or Market Feast. The coupon is valid from Friday, November 27, to Sunday, November 29.
Eat, Drink, and Be Miserly
The holiday season is a classic time to check the national mood and reflect. So how are we doing? Let’s just say you shouldn’t expect to see a new car with a bow on top in your driveway anytime soon.
Mall Wonder: To Attract Shoppers, Stores Host Aerial Performers and Window Displays Kids Can Crawl Inside
Apparently, some flashy entertainment and interactive fun are likely to put shoppers in the mood to buy.
The $4.29 Thanksgiving Dinner
We’re not talking about using coupons or tricks to throw together a random cheapie meal. We’re talking about the typical Thanksgiving feast, with turkey, cranberry sauce, rolls, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving Dinner: Easier, Cheaper, More Authentic, Less Awkward, Gravier
Here’s a buffet of tips, tricks, recipes, and ideas to make for a Thanksgiving that’s wonderful, and that doesn’t eat up too much of your time and money.
Recipes from the Great Depression
Clara Cannucciari is a sweet 94-year-old woman who lived through the Depression, and has the tales—and the recipes—to prove it. Most of the meals she makes can be thrown together for less than $1 per serving.
How a Michelin Restaurant Reviewer Doles Out Stars
We’ve learned that wine ratings and medals awarded in wine competitions are arguably meaningless. What about the similarly snobby world of restaurant reviews?
‘Expert’ Wine Sippers Take Us All for Suckers
Studies show that there’s not much rhyme, reason, or consistency to how judges and critics rate wines and decide who gets the gold medals. This means that we can basically tell this snobby “expert” breed to put a cork in it.
Dunkin Donuts’ New 99¢ Menu Items
This week, the donut and coffee chain made some hoopla by offering a few snack items for 99¢ during a trial run in Chicago only. Am I totally out of touch? Shouldn’t everything in Dunkin Donuts cost less than $1?
How to Cook a Month’s Worth of Meals for Your Family in Just One Day
A mother of five swears that she’s able to save a ton of time and money by cooking an entire month’s worth of dinners with only one day in the kitchen. She swears she can teach you to do it too. How? For one thing, a freezer is involved—ideally, a really big freezer.
Are You Mental? Retailers Try to Understand (and Exploit) the ‘Recession Mentality’
Is the recession over? It doesn’t really matter. Retailers and manufacturers realize that frugality will be the rule at least for the near future, and they’re trying to figure out how to reach the newly cautious, newly vigilant consumer.