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Walmart moves to bar Black Friday protests

by
Stacey Vanek Smith
Nov 21, 2012
Walmart files a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board to try and stop anti-Walmart protests from taking place on Black Friday.

Black Friday spawns novel shopping days

by
Mark Garrison
Nov 21, 2012
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are Thanksgiving shopping fixtures. But don’t overlook Black Wednesday and Small Business Saturday.

Other businesses pile on to Black Friday, the event

by
Eve Troeh
Nov 19, 2012
Businesses from insurance to over-the-counter medicine see the crowds attracted by Black Friday shopping and figure out ways to cash in.

Black Friday creeping earlier into Thursday

by
Jeff Tyler
Nov 8, 2012
Retailers are trying to lure holiday shoppers earlier with guarantees that doorbuster items will be available.

CGI in ads grows more popular

by
Sally Herships
Nov 21, 2012
The Swedish furniture maker Ikea increasingly relies on CGI -- computer-generated imagery -- to "make" the items in its catalog. It's enough to raise the question of whether computer graphics could ever replace people in the fashion photography business.

November retail sales disappoint

by
David Brancaccio
Dec 14, 2011
For all the breathless coverage of Black Friday sales this year, the official retail sales data for November came out today and it was, in a word, 'blah.'

PODCAST: Black Friday's leftovers

by
Mary Dooe
Nov 29, 2011
The national retail federation says sales over the last 4 days jumped 16 percent from last year. Consumers spent an average of 398 dollars on Black Friday-- and Black Thursday, and all Black Saturday and Sunday. And about 40 percent of that shopping was done online.

Black Friday sales boom

by
Marc Sanchez
Nov 28, 2011
Every store opens at midnight on the Internet

Mid-day Extra: Cyber Monday goes mobile

Interview by
Jeremy Hobson
Nov 28, 2011
Today is Cyber Monday, and it follows on the tails of a very promising Black Friday sales weekend. But what do customers, and companies, have to lose from the surge in mobile shopping?

TV sales likely to drop this holiday season

by
Andrea Gardner
Nov 25, 2011
Among the most discounted items this holiday season will be television sets, despite new technologies designed to increase demand.

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