May 21, 2013

Walmart, Kmart, Sears and eBay Offering ‘Real’ Online Shopping


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Filed under: Technology, Sears Holdings, Wal-Mart Stores, Retail, eBay Retailers anxious to lull shoppers into a holiday spending daze are debuting a new experiment in simulation: the “real” online store.

On Nov. 1, Walmart (WMT) launched two pop-up …

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Amazon’s World Takeover — By the Numbers


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Filed under: Company News, Amazon.com, Retail Amazon (AMZN) plays by its own rules. Anyone following the Internet sales tax debate has watched state governments buckle under pressure from the online retail giant. And how could they not? As this infogra…

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We’d Rather Buy iPhones and Video Games Than Clothes or Gas: Retail Sales Data


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Filed under: Economy, Apple, Retail Though Americans aren’t buying homes, clothes, gas, or furniture, we haven’t stopped spending on gadgets, according to Tuesday’s retail sales report from the Department of Commerce.

Overall retail sales rose 0.6% in…

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Murderabilia: The Macabre Online Market for Serial Killer Artifacts


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Filed under: Technology, Crime Anyone who has ever watched The Silence of the Lambs with macabre delight knows the fascination gruesome death can provoke. But no fictional horror can produce the frisson generated by real items currently being sold on w…

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Black Friday Battle Shapes Up as Nordstrom vs. Walmart


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Filed under: Nordstrom, Wal-Mart Stores, RetailThis story was updated at 4:29 pm on 11/10/11

With Walmart’s (WMT) announcement Thursday that it will open at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving, the holiday is now officially morphing into Black Friday Eve. While s…

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