01/08/2009
GameStop holiday sales surge, shares jump (AP via Yahoo! News)
In what was a dismal holiday season for many store chains, video game retailer GameStop Corp. proved an exception.
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01/08/2009
US retailers reveal extent of dismal holiday sales (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US retailers revealed Thursday the extent of dismal sales in the crucial year-end holiday shopping season, when wary consumers snapped their wallets shut in the face of a deepening recession.
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01/08/2009
Holiday Retail Sales Lower Than Expected (Washington Post)
Economic gloom, as expected, dragged down Christmas sales at retailers throughout the U.S., with discounters like Wal-Mart, luxury vendors like Neiman Marcus and pretty much everybody in between saying today that their holiday season results were poorer than expected.
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01/08/2009
Holiday Sales Were Dismal, New Retail Data Confirms (New York Times)
The nation?s retail chains confirmed Thursday that they suffered one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in decades.
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01/08/2009
China's jobless migrants go home early for holiday (AP via Yahoo! News)
Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.
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01/08/2009
Sales Data Confirms a Dismal Holiday Season for Retailers (New York Times)
It was one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in decades, with most stores reporting sales declines and many, including Wal-Mart, lowering their earnings guidance.
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01/09/2009
Coach Cuts Second-quarter Guidance On Poor Holiday Sales (Fox News)
Coach Cuts Second-quarter Guidance On Poor Holiday Sales
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01/08/2009
GameStop holiday sales surge, shares jump (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
In what was a dismal holiday season for many store chains, video game retailer GameStop Corp. proved an exception. The company said Thursday its sales for the November-December period jumped more than 22 percent, boosted by strong sales of new games.
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01/08/2009
U.S. holiday sales were dismal, new retail figures show (International Herald Tribune)
Retail chains confirmed Thursday that they suffered one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in decades.
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01/08/2009
Holiday firm changes price policy (BBC News)
A holiday company has changed its pricing policy after an investigation by the BBC's Working Lunch programme.
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