Berkeley’s Sunrise Books may have reached the end of the day
Telegraph Avenue store’s trade undermined by rise of online sellers
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Technology › Shiseido to open online shopping mall to market cosmetics
Cosmetics maker Shiseido Co will open an online shopping mall in April next year to enable customers to purchase most of its cosmetics including those…
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BuyShade.com Announces the Launch of Their New Website
BuyShade.com, an online tent, canopy and tablecloth merchant, announces the launch of their new website at http://www.buyshade.com.
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18 Hottest Toys of 2011
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Toy sales are expected to strengthen in 2011 as toymakers bet on new plush toys, digital updates to old classics and the return of an iconic relationship. Toy sales grew 2% in 2010 to .87 billion, according to the NPD Group, with online toy sales buoying results with a 22% surge. The strongest category was plush toys, which saw sales climb 18%, followed by building …
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ShopSmart Finds the Best Online Deals
–Big Discount Shopping Sites Promise Low Prices, But Not All Of Them Deliver–
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Frequent shopping prolongs life, study suggests
A spot of regular ‘retail therapy’ really does seem to help people live longer, suggests new research. Frequent shopping among the elderly may not always be about buying things, but about seeking companionship or taking exercise, which is easier to do than more formal exercise that usually requires motivation.
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Susannah Frankel: ‘I could probably fit my entire family in my dungarees, with sofa’
“What do you think of dungarees?” I ask my friend Lucy – we are both in the throes of last month’s Paris collections and it’s a loaded question, obviously. In between shows, I seek the euphoria (fake) that only shopping can induce and order a pair I’ve been eyeing up online for a few days – the label is Coming Soon, a Yohji Yamamoto spin-off – from theoutnet.com. And, no, they’re not denim. I …
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Officials at major credit card company say online shopping is on the rise
NEW YORK (AP) – Shoppers have been cooling their heels at retail stores recently, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve stopped shopping. MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse says nonessential spending slowed a bit in March, but online shopping…
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Hubby-proof shopping app scans away incompetence
The sheer incompetence of males when it comes to the weekly shop has inspired a new iPhone app that removes virtually all brainpower from the process.
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Retailers say tax laws giving online sellers major advantage
Arguing that 8 million in sales taxes owed to Massachusetts goes uncollected as a result of online sales by out-of-state companies, lawmakers, labor union officials, and retailers rallied Thursday behind a bill they said would require those companies to transmit taxes on purchases made by residents of the Commonwealth. “We’re leaving nearly 0 million on the table to out of state businesses …
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US braces for shutdown
Book flights online! Go shopping! Museums across the US capital may close their doors.
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