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2 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Best Buy's Dunn Says Traffic Up Since Last Black Friday: Video

Nov. 27 -- Brian Dunn, chief executive officer at Best Buy Co. Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the outlook for the holiday shopping season.

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Business News, Video

7 hrs ago | National Post

Top court backs Walmart in union dispute

Canada's top court has ruled in favour of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a dispute over union organizing efforts at a store in Quebec.

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Related Topix: Wal Mart Stores, Canada,

11 hrs ago | The Honolulu Advertiser

Stores prepare to handle risks of holiday rush

Retailers are beefing up security for today's rush of bargain-hunting customers, pledging better control of waiting lines, more in-store assistance and longer hours.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving

15 hrs ago | Chain Store Age

Dollar Tree's Q3 profit soars 58%, raises full-year view

Chesapeake, Va. Dollar Tree again raised its fiscal-year forecast as its third-quarter earnings rose a much stronger-than-expected 58% on increased customer traffic and sales.

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Related Topix: Dollar Tree Stores, Chesapeake, VA

Thu Nov 26, 2009

South China Morning Post

Wal-Mart price pressure hurts mainland workers

Wal-Mart Stores' demand for rock-bottom prices from suppliers in the mainland means some of these companies are forcing their employees to work in sweatshop-like conditions, a new report said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Wal Mart Stores

Hartford Courant

Shoppers Expected To Zero In On Deals

When the biggest shopping day of the year arrives at 12 a.m. Friday, the crowds are predicted to be as robust as ever.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Wal Mart Stores, Target, Ansonia, CT

Asbury Park Press Online

To get a jump on Black Friday, stores open on Thanksgiving

Put the turkey on autopilot. With holiday retail sales projected to be anemic, some familiar chains will open their doors on Thanksgiving Day - several nationally for the first time.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving

ABC15.com

Danes 'terrified' by Efron's fame

Actor Zac Efron attends a screening of 'Me And Orson Welles' hosted by the Cinema Society, Screenvision and Brooks Brothers at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 23, 2009 in New York City.

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Related Topix: Me and Orson Welles, Apparel, Entertainment

cbs4denver.com

Colo. Grocery Workers To Vote On Contract Offer

After six months of negotiations, unionized Colorado grocery workers at Safeway and Kroger Co.'s King Soopers and City Market chains are going to start voting on the companies' last, best and final contract offers.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado Government, Kroger, Grocery

The Daily Breeze

Stocks rise on drop in jobless claims

The market's gains were modest on light trading volume ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Related Topix: Tiffany , Jewelry, Financial Markets, Little Rock Metro

Wed Nov 25, 2009

The Daily Weekly

Mac Users Pounce on Microsoft-Saks Windows 7 Twitter Feed

So that's why no one on Twitter likes Microsoft. To remind holiday shoppers about their new OS Windows 7, Microsoft recently bought a display window in legendary New York department store Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Twitter, Saks

WHNS

Grocer Offers Its First Black Friday Promotion

The nation's largest traditional grocery chain is getting into the Black Friday shopping game.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Kroger, Grocery

Times-Picayune

Year after fatal Walmart stampede, Black Friday gets makeover

In November 2008, Nassau County police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., where a temporary store worker died after a throng of shoppers broke down the doors on Black Friday.

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Related Topix: Wal Mart Stores, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Valley Stream, NY, Thanksgiving, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Asbury Park Press Online

Tiffany raises outlook as 3Q profit comes in ahead

Strong overseas sales and cost-cutting kept a decline in Tiffany & Co.'s third-quarter profit to a bare minimum, causing the luxury jeweler to raise its full-year profit outlook heading into the crucial holiday season.

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Related Topix: Tiffany , Jewelry

Light Reading

Windstream to Acquire Iowa Telecom

Windstream Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Winn Dixie Stores, Grocery, Newton, IA

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Quarterly profit rises at American Eagle

The post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend will be important for American Eagle Outfitters, which this morning reported sales in established stores fell 5 percent in the first three weeks of November.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, American Eagle Outfitters, Apparel

Tue Nov 24, 2009

FOX59.com WXIN-TV Indianapolis

J. Crew 3rd-quarter profit more than doubles as sales rise by double-digit percentage

J. Crew Group Inc., seller of clothes, shoes and accessories, said Tuesday its profit more than doubled in the third quarter as sales rose by a double-digit percentage.

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Related Topix: Apparel, J. Crew, Michelle Obama

PhillyBurbs.com

NY grocer plans to close 53 stores, lay off 4,000

The Penn Traffic Co. has told New York officials it will close dozens of supermarkets in upstate New York and lay off more than 4,000 employees.

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Related Topix: Grocery, York, PA, York Metro, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Victoria Star

George Weston reports $86-million profit in third quarter

George Weston Ltd. says its third-quarter net earnings dropped 52 per cent from year ago levels largely because of the negative impact of foreign exchange losses.

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Related Topix: Grocery

Miami Herald

Barnes & Noble reports 2Q loss, cuts guidance

Barnes & Noble on Tuesday posted a loss in the fiscal second quarter and lowered its guidance due to expected weak holiday sales and higher-than-expected costs to ramp up production of its electronic book reader, the Nook.

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Related Topix: Barnes and Noble

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