NEW YORK Christmas News, Dec 23, 2011

Mad dash to stores as Christmas approaches MarketWatch By Andria Cheng, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Every year, 28-year-old Latoya Roberts starts her holiday shopping at the same time: 9 am on Dec. 23. This year was no exception. Outside of the Toys “R” Us store at New York's Times Square just ... See all stories on this topic »

US shoppers less than merry after online glitches Reuters By Dhanya Skariachan and Alistair Barr | NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tom Nenon, a philosophy professor at the University of Memphis, is vexed with his online shopping experience at Best Buy, a sentiment shared by other US Internet shoppers this ... See all stories on this topic »

Christmas and New Year Holidays in America GroundReport On Saturday, then immediately performed a spectacular parade in the city of New York, with the arrival of Santa Claus marking the start of the Christmas shoppingseason. Christmas was originally a strictly religious celebration which celebrates the ... See all stories on this topic »

Sales Seen Up 3.8% as US Weather Helps Year-End Surge: Retail BusinessWeek 20 to Christmas Eve. The Wayne, New Jersey-based retailer's flagship in New York's Times Square will push that to more than 200 hours. Macy's, the second-largest US department store chain, is opening some locations for 83 straight hours and extending ... See all stories on this topic »

Shopping for Presents While Most Are Asleep New York Times They were hardly alone, on a night when, in Midtown, Old Navy and Toys “R” Us were also in the midst of continuing their own annual all-nighters leading up to Christmas. Elina Kazan, a spokeswoman for Macy's, said five of its New York City stores, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Local Store Owners Try To Boost Sales As Christmas Nears NY1 "I got some new Jets pajamas and new Jets slippers. I've been a lifelong season ticket holder to the Jets since I was five years old, and frankly if the Jets don't win, Christmas is canceled," said another. Shoplifters were also headed to the stores, ... See all stories on this topic » NY1

Christmas Trees Breathe Life into Monroe's Economy Patch.com By Bill Bittar Bill's Drive-In on Monroe Turnpike reaps the benefits as tree shoppingNew Yorkers stop by for a bite to eat. Lee Hossler It is a common sight at this time of year, SUVs with New York plates and Christmas trees tied to the roofs fill ... See all stories on this topic »

Louis Vuitton Sues Warner Bros. Over 'Hangover II' Bag, Amazon App Causes Stir... Wall Street Journal (blog) By Robin Kawakami Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton filed suit against Warner Bros. in federal court in New York alleging that a handbag featured in the movie “The Hangover Part II” is a fake. In the scene, the character played by Zach Galifianakis ... See all stories on this topic »

Shoppers fight, arrested over new Air Jordan shoes USA TODAY SEATTLE (AP) – The release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes caused a frenzy at stores across the nation Friday as scuffles broke out and police were brought in to stamp out unrest that nearly turned into riots in some places. ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

A pawn shop Christmas Allentown Morning Call But most customers browsing the stores this week were interested in the basics — jewelry, video games, music — to fulfill Christmaswishes. "It's hard nowadays," said Ghovanna Gonzalez of Whitehall Township, who bought a video game — $20 new at the ... See all stories on this topic » Allentown Morning Call

For Many, Online Order Snafus Forces Last-Minute Shopping AtStores CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There is two days left until Christmasand if you're waiting on last-minute online orders to arrive, you may be disappointed, CBS 2′s Rhiannon Ally reports. Shopping online can save you time and often money, but a variety ... See all stories on this topic » CBS New York

Manhattan's Score Stores Face the Music Wall Street Journal (blog) The holiday hit from 1934 still sells about 100 copies each year at the Manhattanstore. For New York's sheet-music sellers, laid low by every innovation from the radio to the ringtone, there hasn't been a holiday season that approached the boom days ... See all stories on this topic »

Final Holiday Shopping Marathon: Stores Stay Open 112 Hours in a Row Before ... TIME By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | December 23, 2011 | + Customers take the escalator as they shop at a Toys "R" Us store in New York. Considering that consumers have already dropped tens of billions of dollars in stores and online on gifts so far this ... See all stories on this topic » TIME

US EQUITIES WEEK AHEAD: Confidence Index, Retail Reports Wall Street Journal By Nathalie Tadena Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Markets will examine a few economic reports, including the Conference Board's confidence index, in the upcoming week shortened by the Christmas holiday. Several firms will release data ... See all stories on this topic »

Bucking Holiday Tradition, Chains Put Deals on Menus Wall Street Journal By ANNIE GASPARRO NEW YORK—It's not the season for restaurant discounts, but this year, casual dining chains are pushing price promotions throughout the holidays. With consumers traditionally in the mood to splurge for Christmas and New Year's, ... See all stories on this topic »

List 'Em Carefully: 10 Alternative Christmas Songs Consequence of Sound The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – “Fairytale Of New York” “Fairytale Of New York” dates from 1987, when it became Christmas No. 1 in Ireland, and was only kept off top spot in the UK bizarrely by a non-seasonal song, the Pet Shop Boys' cover of “Always On ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Your Last-Minute Christmas Gift Be Delivered in Time? WTMA iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- As the countdown to Christmas continues to wind down, late shoppers are still scrambling online, placing last-minute orders with the hope that their gifts will make it in time for the holiday. ... See all stories on this topic »

How the Pogues 'Fairytale of New York' almost wasn't made - SEE VIDEO Irish Central It has also stood the test of time and is as famous and sought after today as it was when it was released in Christmas 1987. Ironically it never made it to No 1 on release, finishing second in Britain to a Pet Shop Boys number, now long forgotten. See all stories on this topic »

Family Run Italian Pastry Shop Serving Up Traditional Holiday Treats For More ... CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Traditional treats and sweets are a very important part of the Italian table for Christmas Eve andChristmas Day and there's one bakery in Manhattan that's been making the goodies for over a century. ... See all stories on this topic » CBS New York

Sales deals: The good and the bad Albany Times Union (Tina Fineberg/The New York Times) Half off at the entire store at Ann Taylor. Sixty percent at Gap. Forty percent off almost everything at Abercrombie & Fitch. Aggressive last-minute deals in the days before Christmas are good for procrastinators but ... See all stories on this topic »

Last-minute shoppers can expect crowds and chaos Plain Dealer ... to the International Council of Shopping Centers in New York. By this time last year, 74 percent of us were done shopping. It won't help that Christmas Eve falls on a Saturday this year, making it easier for people to shop at the last minute. ... See all stories on this topic » Plain Dealer

The New York Week That Was (Christmas Edition) SB Nation And now on to the top stories of the week in the world of New Yorksports (oh, and the Knicks had other memorable Christmas-day games, like the one in 1984, when they were defeated by the New Jersey Nets, with Bernard King scoring 60 points in a losing ... See all stories on this topic » SB Nation

Consumer Confidential: Prices come down, shoplifting goes up Los Angeles Times Among the deals to be had, Toys R Us announced new markdowns on dozens of items for Friday and Saturday. (New York Times) -- But apparently not allshopping is paid for. During the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an estimated $1.8 billion in ... See all stories on this topic »

Roz will have sushi for Christmas Herald.ie Instead of spending Christmas at home, the Fade Street star is currently sunning herself in Marbella as she didn't want to be home alone for Christmas while her parents are in New York. Roz said: "I've already done the whole Christmas in New York thing ... See all stories on this topic »

Santa Knows Which Cities Have the Cleanest Chimneys This Christmas, According ... MarketWatch (press release) Santa said we could share some of it so here it is based on thousands of requests we received over the past 90-days, nationwide: -- Not surprisingly New York and Chicago, and surprisingly, Atlanta had the most chimney cleaning requests -- A smaller ... See all stories on this topic »

RIABiz finds its Christmas cheer in Maine, Oregon, Indiana, New York Seattle ... RIABiz Meanwhile, Nevin has headed up to Ashland, Ore., to be with his parents; Dina is celebrating the holiday in New York; Frank is with his family in Fairfax and holding down the RIABiz fort in Mill Valley; and Lisa is getting very rural in Indiana. ... See all stories on this topic »

Time to celebrate Festivus! (Video) TheCelebrityCafe.com George's father Frank explains the holiday, which he created himself, in the videobelow, which also includes other clips from the episode: The episode was written by Dan O'Keefe, who told The New York Times that his father, Daniel O'Keefe, ... See all stories on this topic »

When to catch 'A Christmas Story,' and other holiday classics this weekend New York Daily News “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” ABC Family, 9 pm EST. Macaulay Culkin returns in this sequel, playing a little boy who has to make it alone on the streets of New York City after getting on the wrong plane. The Wet Bandits, played by Joe Pesci and ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

'Secret Santa' at Kmart Cleveland Daily Banner This generosity by Santa has been noted since an 1897 editorial in the New YorkSun asking — “Is There a Santa Claus?” The editorial included the famous reply, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” referencing then 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon who ... See all stories on this topic »

The Bank Around the Corner New York Times It's not the kind of bank you'll find anymore in New York City, where multiple branches and capitalizations counted in 10 figures are the norm. With $12 million in total assets, the Bank of Cattaraugus is a microbank, well below the $10 billion ceiling ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Huge retailers now scrambling Occupy Christmas By troublemaker New York Times (1). Discounts across the entire store likely indicate Christmas shopping has been lower than expected. Retailers are willing to lower their prices dramatically prior to the end of the shopping season for two reasons. The first and most obvious is that they do not want to get stuck with unsold merchandise. ...Despite looking good in the news, profits were driven down by larger discounts and expenses were driven up by the cost of opening earlier than previous years. ... Occupy Christmas

President Barack Obama goes Christmas shopping | 7online.com Watch the Live New York State Lottery drawing every night at 11:21 on 7online. com ... President Barack Obama headed on an impromptu Christmas shoppingtrip ... News Headlines. Video. Lawyer attributes client's behavior to 'inbreeding' ... abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id...

Brain strain: Christmas shopping when money tight associated press. NEW YORK. Chennel King, a nurse from Norwalk, Conn., wentChristmas shopping the other day with a new holiday companion: a budget. ... www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1792328

Holiday shopping season is strong NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday shopping season is wrapping up to be bigger than ... and hoping consumers will keep spending in the final days beforeChristmas. ... www.google.com/.../ALeqM5iMuJaEgkN5Xt5nTl0CS-EQF1q...

Brain Strain: Christmas Shopping When Money Tight | NBC New York Chennel King, a nurse from Norwalk, Conn., went Christmas shopping the other day with a new holiday companion: a budget. www.nbcnewyork.com/.../Shopping-Psychology-Christmas-B...

A pawn shop Christmas: Thrifty people seek gift-list bargains - mcall ... It's also Christmastime in a bad economy, so the little shops are seeing more and... told the New York Times that this has been the best holiday season ever. ...who bought a video game — $20 new at the mall — for $10 at Pawn America. ... www.mcall.com/.../mc-pawn-shop-christmas-20111222,0,412...

Obama goes Christmas shopping - Yahoo! News Discover news, videos and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. ... President Barack Obama headed on an impromptu Christmasshopping trip Wednesday .... K-Man • New York, United States • 1 day 9 hrs ago... news.yahoo.com/obama-goes-christmas-shopping-202939777...

New York Spotlights Alleged Illegal Gun Sales | Video - ABC News NYPD video of online sales of weapons. ... New YorkSpotlights Alleged Illegal Gun Sales ... abcnews.go.com/.../york-spotlights-alleged-illegal-gun-sales-1...

A&P/Pathmark backlash over Christmas Day openings - New York ... A&P and Pathmark grocery stores will be open on Christmas Day, and while it ...over Christmas Day openings - New York Amsterdam News: Union Matters ... www.amsterdamnews.com/.../article_f90ce608-2c29-11e1-a86...

Mad, Last-Minute Christmas Shopping Rush Underway « CBS New ... For those who waited until the last minute to do their Christmas shopping you are in for an ordeal at area stores. CBS 2's Derricke Dennis reports. ... newyork.cbslocal.com/.../6572229-mad-last-minute-christmas-...

President Barack Obama goes Christmas ... - New York Daily News President Barack Obama took a break from the drama on Capitol Hill Wednesday to get in some last-minute Christmas shopping. www.nydailynews.com/.../president-barack-obama-christmas-s...

Toys R Us to Stay Open 24/7 Through Christmas Eve A multisource video news analysis service that highlights nuances in reporting ...Still haven't done your Christmas shopping? ... Here's The New York Times. ... www.newsy.com/.../toys-r-us-to-stay-open-24-7-through-chris...

Shopping for Christmas Gifts in New York While Most Are Asleep ... Connect with @NYTMetro on Twitter for New York breaking news and headlines.... transfixed by the store's scenes of miniature Christmas glee; New Yorkers ... www.nytimes.com/.../shopping-for-christmas-gifts-while-most...

Real Christmas Trees Save Water - National Geographic News Fake Christmas trees have a bigger environmental impact than natural Christmastrees. ... it just sits there because it doesn't biodegrade," said Bill Ulfelder, NewYork State director for The ... See All News Video » .... Shop National Geographic ... news.nationalgeographic.com/.../111212-real-christmas-trees-s...

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