12/05/2008
Shopping channel cuts 70 jobs (BBC News)
A television shopping channel in Cambridgeshire cuts 70 jobs because of a downturn in the economy.
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12/05/2008
Coliseum Corner Shopping Center changes hands (Daily Press)
Bethesda, Md.-based Kodiak Properties Inc. has purchased the Coliseum Corner Shopping Center in Hampton from Ziff Properties Inc. for about $4.4 million, the company announced Friday.
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12/05/2008
How Do Celebs Do Their Xmas Shopping? (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
How about a shopping question for the season? Do stars have assistants do it for them, and are they above ordering anything that the great unwashed can also have?
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12/04/2008
Amazon.com Feeds Impulse Shopping Frenzy with iPhone App (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Just in time for the busy holiday shopping season, Amazon.com has released an iPhone App that gives users a direct portal to the Website without the Safari middleman. After you sign into your account, the Amazon App lets you search, buy items with a single click, access your wish list and account information, and basically do everything the regular website offers.
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12/05/2008
Pay to park at shopping centre (The Courier Mail)
THE Chermside Shopping Centre in Brisbane will be the first Queensland complex owned by the Westfield group to introduce car parking fees.
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12/05/2008
Not-so-merry shopping season (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The nation's retailers turned in the worst sales figures in at least a generation yesterday, starting the holiday shopping season with double-digit declines across a broad spectrum of stores. For many chains, the precipitous sales drops that took hold in September and October got worse, not better, in November, despite relatively strong sales in the few days after Thanksgiving.
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12/05/2008
Don't invite a robbery when you're shopping (Detroit News)
You've heard all this before: Don't go holiday shopping carrying all your credit cards. Take only the ones you plan to use. Law-enforcement authorities remind us to be extra careful this holiday shopping season, for all the usual reasons plus a couple more.
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12/05/2008
One, Two, Three-Stop Shopping (Torontoist)
You'd be forgiven for seeing nothing but charcoal skies on the holiday shopping horizon, but you also wouldn't be looking quite industriously enough. But, don't fear; that's why we're here!
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12/05/2008
Woman robbed after shopping trip (Greensboro News & Record)
WINSTON-SALEM — Police are looking for a man who robbed a 56-year-old woman at gunpoint Wednesday after a shopping trip. Winston-Salem police said Patricia Dana of Lexington went shopping at Hanes Mall with her two grandchildren, then returned them to their home in the 4700 block of Carlton Drive in Winston-Salem. Shortly after 7 p.m., as Dana was unloading items, a man pointed a handgun at ...
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12/05/2008
How Do Celebs Do Their Xmas Shopping? (E! Online)
How about a shopping question for the season? Do stars have assistants do it for them, and are they above ordering anything that the great unwashed can also have? —Beth in...
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