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Never Pay Retail Again As Americans aim to curtail their spending, more retailers are cutting deals to reel in customers By Jessica Dickler,CNNMoney.com staff writer http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/110/never-pay-retail-again/ NEW YORK — Times are tough. The economy is weakening, consumer confidence is at a low and Americans are struggling just to buy basics like gas and groceries. So when it comes to getting goods that fall beyond the bare necessities, shoppers are getting smarter.Another Update on Store Closings and Retailers at Risk
* PUBLIC POST ** Companies on recent obituaries pages: Circuit City Linens 'n' Things Mervyn's Likely future failures: Sharper Image (though the company will continue to sell some of its high-end gadgets through license agreements with other retailers) Shrinking operations: Ann Taylor Charming Shoppes (owner of Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines) Eddie Bauer Gap Pacific Sunwear Pep Boys Sprint / Nextel Starbucks Timberland Zales / Piercing Pagoda At risk: Sears/Kmart My favorite quote from this story: Davidowitz (Howard Davidowitz, chairman of New York-based retail consultant and investment bank Davidowitz & Associates) doesn't think a huge government stimulus will help. Better to let things bottom out naturally before regrouping. "Obama's plan will make it worse," he says.Website of the Day: Gazaro
Holiday shopping. Jut typing the words gives me some serious anxiety, so any site that helps make my life a little bit easier is a good site in my book. If you're in the market for electronics or accessories, you'll like Gazaro, a site that monitors sales fliers and store websites, alerting you when an item you're looking for goes on sale.
New York Designers Anxious; Retailers Cut Orders
With the economy cratering and consumer confidence sinking to new lows, it’s not surprising an uncertain mood, if not outright panic, has taken hold of many showrooms in New York. Vendors have reasons to be concerned — according to sources, retailers nationwide are cutting orders by at least 10 to 15 percent for spring, while the New York flagships are lowering their buys by 7 to 10 percent since they don’t anticipate they’ll take as hard a hit because of tourism. That’s amid an already disastrous fall selling season that is sure to put even more stress on designers.
Website of the Day: Retail Me Not
You know when you're shopping online and you see a box on the checkout page that tells you to enter a discount code, coupon number or promotional code? You can actually obtain those money saving codes and digits from Retail Me Not, a website that lists online coupon codes for stores like J Crew, Amazon, Victoria Secret, Starbucks and Avis. The website gets all of its discount codes from user-submissions, so there's no guarantee that each code will work 100 percent, but it's definitely worth a try.
Three new photo contests on Lenzr.com expire Jan 1st, 2010
There are three new photo contests on Lenzr.com for the months of October and December 2009 ! Photographers look sharp - there's something for everyone to focus on here. Medicinal Plants in Nature celebrates botanical photography and hopes to collect images of natural medicine growing wild in the great outdoors.intro...
hey, i'm missy dizzy a.k.a wawa..i'm 19 dis year n werkin fulltyme as a retail assistant.i soo interested in evrythin abt makeup..currently saving money fer makeup course..i love to sing n dance.used to dance bt my bf doesn't lyke it so i quit..i'm soo hapily,devotedly attached to guy whom i call dd!! we've been 2gether since 2nd april 2006.we've gone thru so much with each other..e ups n downs, thick n thin..he's my dad,bro n best fren!dd's goin to ns soon..nt sure wen but soon. n wen he's gone,i gonna miss hym..dats y i'm tryin my best to spent alot of tyme with hym..dd, he's my evrythin.Direction of Buying discount Jewelry
If you are a jewelry retailer or own a jewelry website that sells cheap jewelry , you are probably wondering if there are discount jewelry what you want to sell. Well, there are several of these cheap discount jewelry companies around, and if you wholesale jewelry directly, you can sell the most unique jewelry around at a discount jewelry price. Many of this discount jewelry is made over seas in other countries like China.RUMOR PATROL: Linday Lohan NOT Designing for bebe
Looks like Lindsay Lohan hasn’t found herself another fashion job quite yet. Though Ungaro’s Artistic Advisor told Access Hollywood that she had teamed up with jewelry designer Pascal Mouawad to create a collection for bebe, WWD reports that it just isn’t so. According to the paper, Pascal Mouawad, who has partnered with Nicole Richie and Heidi Klum in the past, acknowledges that though discussions about launching a jewelry line with Lindsay for bebe did take place, the line “is not happening.” And a rep from bebe confirms that to PEOPLE, saying “We are not doing anything with her.
Find Out When Products You Want Go On Sale - ZingSale
If you're going to be doing a lot of holiday online, you might want to check out ZingSale.com. With ZingSale, you can make a list of gifts you want to buy for your family (or yourself!), and you will automatically get an email alert whenever anything on your shopping list goes on sale. You can set the price your willing to pay for each item, or simply let ZingSale find the best deal possible. Either way, you'll save money on everything you want to buy this holiday!
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