Father's Day Gifts at Amazon.com

If you're doing some shopping online, check  the links . Father's Day is next Sunday:

Retailers Brace for Hordes of Post-Christmas Shoppers

I'm looking forward to the total retail sales numbers. A big holiday season will give the 4th quarter GDP numbers a boost. That's go...

New Air Jordans Cause Race Riots Across the United States

That's hardly exaggerating. See the headline at Edmonton Journal , " New Air Jordan shoes cause shopping frenzy in Seattle, across ...

Bey Blade Shopping

My son loves Hell Kerbecs . More here: Shop Amazon's Holiday Toy List .

Booming Cyber Monday!

At USA Today , " Buyers click away as Cyber Monday sales jump 18% ." The shopping season's biggest online holiday was more pop...

Man Dies After Black Friday Shopping at South Charleston Target

See London's Daily Mail , " Not a single Good Samaritan: Frenzied bargain hunters unfazed as they step around and even OVER collaps...

Black Friday Sales Surge 7 Percent Over 2010

At San Francisco Chronicle , " Black Friday sales up 7 pct; retailers look ahead ." And USA Today , " Black Friday sales up 7...

Shoppers Scour Stores for Black Friday Bargains

At Chicago Tribune , " Shoppers hit the deck running on Thanksgiving night ." And check this monstrous post at London's Daily ...

Black Friday Novices

More on Black Friday. At New York Times , " For Black Friday First-Timers, Not a Night of Conversion ." And my first-hand report f...

Black Friday Sales Pay Off for Retailers

At Los Angeles Times , " Early Black Friday sales appear to pay off for retailers ." An early kickoff to the holiday shopping seas...

Wal-Mart Black Friday

At Los Angeles Times , " Wal-Mart's unhappy holiday tradition: Black Friday violence ." A customer was shot during an attempte...

Black Friday Sales Show Divide Between Shoppers

At New York Times , " Opening Day for Shoppers Shows Divide ": As the busiest retail weekend of the year begins late Thursday nigh...

The Target Lady is Back!

Yeah, the commercialism's a bit much sometimes, but one of the pleasures of Black Friday is Maria Bamford , the Target Lady . I'm se...

End the Black Friday Madness!

Well, you can always shop at Amazon . Or, well, see Robert Frank, at New York Times , " How to End the Black Friday Madness ": In ...

Thanksgiving Day Gets the Jump On Black Friday

At Los Angeles Times , " Black Thursday is replacing Black Friday as more stores open on Thanksgiving ": Black Thursday is becomin...

Shoppers Angry as Black Friday Sales Push Into Thanksgiving

At New York Times , " Thanksgiving as Day to Shop Meets Rejection ": For the first time in years, Michelle Nyberg probably will no...