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It's the time of year when retailers are making money while the rest of us are trying to watch what we spend.
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It's the time of year when retailers are making money while the rest of us are trying to watch what we spend.
It's the year's busiest shopping season and companies want to get you however they can – even if it means calling you during dinner time.
It turns out Cyber Monday is a good time to shop for vacations. Combine a slow week at the hotels, with some Thanksgiving dinner conversations and you have a hot week for travel deals.
If you buy a Christmas tree or wreath online this year, make sure you're not letting destructive insects into your home or neighborhood.
Fifteen locally-based websites were among the 150 shut down in a pre-holiday crackdown targeting sites selling counterfeit and pirated merchandise.
The week after Thanksgiving is lovingly known as "dead week" amongst travel experts. This is because many people -- getting off a long weekend of travel -- decide to mostly stay at home, which is good news to anyone looking to save money on a vacation.
The stores are busy this weekend -- but one in three people still plan to do part of their holiday shopping online this year. But you then run the risk of getting scammed.
Bargain shoppers aren't waiting until Cyber Monday to do their holiday shopping. At the stroke of midnight Friday shoppers began their buying marathon. But not everyone rushed into stores -- instead, they jumped online.
While we're thinking turkey and shopping, it's the plunger that symbolizes the holiday best for plumbers. That's because Thanksgiving creates more clogs than any other day of the year.
Saturday was the second annual Small Business Saturday. It's a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on the busiest shopping weekend of the year.
After all the fuss about Target and other retailers opening early on Thanksgiving, after all the hype about the backlash, the only conclusion that can be drawn the day after is that if stores open with deals, shoppers will come.
Shoppers came out by the thousands for Black Friday at the Mall of America.
With a toot of a whistle, the holiday shopping train at Southdale began a 30 day-journey with Black Friday, which sent huge crowds into stores and malls hours earlier than usual.
Every day this week, we're letting you in on a secret, a piece of information from different industry insiders that will help you save money. This week, a chef and restaurant owner confess.
Thousands of shoppers have already come and gone from stores around the Twin Cities. Some stores opened Thanksgiving night, including Toys R Us stores around the country.
