(PhysOrg.com) -- For most Americans, Thanksgiving Day means a flurry of food, family and football. But the real frenzy begins the day after, say researchers at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University.
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2009
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US online holiday sales are already on the rise, and are expected to grow 17 percent from last year to $43.4 billion, a new forecast said Wednesday.
Business
Nov 21, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With Christmas Day looming, why do so many people wait until the last moment to do Christmas shopping? Research has modelled procrastination as a scheduling problem and has found, as the deadline gets ...
Economics & Business
Dec 22, 2010
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Having brought joy to Lithuanian families over the holidays, Christmas trees will now warm them through the rest of winter after being converted into biofuel.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 7, 2013
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Target and other brick-and-mortar retailers are treating this holiday season as an offensive against online rivals such as Amazon.com, using tactics such as price-matching to win back dominance of the Christmas shopping season.
Business
Oct 22, 2012
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Around 46 million people across the UK are expected to have visited their local high street to go shopping over the last weekend in November, encouraged by so-called Black Friday sales. The projected spend in-store and online ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2023
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U.S. shoppers spent 15 percent more in online holiday buying compared to last year, after what may have been the busiest week of the season, said research firm comScore on Sunday.
Business
Dec 19, 2011
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British retail sales slid 1.5 percent in December from the previous month after consumers had brought forward their Christmas shopping, official data showed Friday.
Business
Jan 19, 2018
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Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Has the incessant Christmas music in shops started to get on your nerves?
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2012
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If you found yourself this year sitting in traffic waiting to get into your local town centre in order to buy Christmas presents while pining for a simpler time, frustrated drivers may be surprised to learn that gridlocked ...
Other
Dec 22, 2014
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