February 3, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Companies hope you'll be gabbing about their Super Bowl ads on Monday morning. But the ultimate score is if those conversations continue throughout the year.
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January 4, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — A flurry of post-Christmas bargain shopping helped drive sales higher in the last week of December, according to a report today from a shopping mall trade group. Increased gift card use, mild weather and a federal holiday on Monday...
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December 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — In an unexpected twist, TVs are topping many Christmas shopping lists this year.
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October 3, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's Kindle Fire is a Catch-22 for retailers: The $199 tablet computer could both help Christmas traffic and hurt future sales.
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August 26, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — It's the not-so-quiet before the storm.
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July 26, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Now playing: Movies at Walmart.com.The world's largest retailer on Tuesday started streaming many movies the same day they come out on DVD, in a second bid for a share of popular movie rental and streaming website Netflix Inc.'s busi...
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July 19, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year old book seller could start liquidating its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday.
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June 13, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Clothing and footwear maker VF Corp., whose brands include Wrangler, Nautica and The North Face, said today it will buy boot and clothing maker Timberland Co. for more than $2.2 billion as it seeks to expand its outdoor offerings.
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April 11, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of the No. 2 home-improvement chain Lowe's Cos. received a pay package valued at $12 million in 2010, up 3 percent from the year before, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
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January 25, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam's Club warehouses as it turns over the task of in-store product demonstrations to an outside marketing company.The move is an effort to improve sales at Sam's Club and comes on t...
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November 24, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday - a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving - and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.
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June 17, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday, the latest retail casualty of the recession.CCMP Capital Advisors LLC has bid for its assets, the company said. Other buyers may also make b...
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October 8, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) - Will financial-market turmoil be the Grinch this Christmas? With parents already facing high food and gas costs and slumps in the job and housing markets, the turmoil in the financial sector could further spur them to cut their spending, f...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A lifelike baby Triceratops that children can ride on, a Wall-E robot that responds to your voice, a dancing game that eliminates wires and mats. Toy makers are upping the "Wow!"-factor in new products in an attempt to capture children's a...
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