Whatever happens, this might be the last holiday season for what we consider the traditional console market.
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Its missteps with inventory last holiday season in the U.S. resulted in Best Buy losing some of its market share.
Mr. Salvi started selling the plants on crystal-beaded hangers last holiday season to garden centers and other retailers who thought they would be popular decorations.
Retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy were slammed by a 27% drop in sales of appliances and consumer electronics during the last holiday season.
That's a recipe for low prices--and chances are they'll last through the holiday season.
Consumer electronics, especially DVD players, were one of the few bright spots of last year's holiday season.
It became the number one "Most Desired Gift" on Amazon.com during last year's holiday season and, eventually, a Harvard Business School case study.
In a research project conducted during last year's holiday season and posted on YouTube, Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, concluded that a single-file line leading to three cashiers is about three times faster than having a separate line for each cashier.
According to a new CareerBuilder study, companies are planning to offer employees more perks this holiday season than last.
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Analysts who were hammering Circuit City during last year's dismal holiday season have generally praised McCollough's turnaround plan, which resulted in 42 relocated stores where sales growth outperformed their unmoved counterparts by 29% last year.
The day after Christmas is traditionally a day when retailers expect to see the last boom in store traffic for the holiday season.
The majority of respondents expect retail sales to be up this holiday season, especially relative to last year.
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Nielsen surveyed children 6-12 and teens, and the iPad remained the number one most desired gift this Holiday Season, as it was last season.
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Twenty-seven percent of people plan to give food or liquor as a gift this holiday season, slightly more than last year, but down from 35% in 2007, according to Deloitte's 2011 Annual Holiday Survey.
You may recall the hubbub late last year regarding the elimination of retail jobs heading into the holiday season.
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ShopperTrak still maintains holiday season foot traffic will increase 2.8 percent over last year.
Cyber Monday was the busiest shopping day last year and is expected to set sales trend for online retailers this holiday season.
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And, as it turns out, the quarter was exceptionally strong as a spurt in online retail and advertising spending during a solid holiday season saw its commerce vertical increase 20% compared to last year and 25% sequentially.
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The gift card--the definition of the last-minute present--is also expected to sell well during the holiday season.
Whether you're flying to visit your family, catching a train to meet up with a long-distance love or celebrating New Year's Eve on a warm-weather cruise with friends, ever present travel disruptions over the holiday season may leave you needing a place to stay at the last-minute.
Over 60 million of the 115 million people expected to shop online this holiday season will do so from work, almost 10 million more than last year.
As the outlook for the US brightens versus easy comparables last year, we could see a confidence for retailer stocks tick higher as the holiday season gets underway, especially following the announcement of J.
This is based on data from PortalPlayer as well as the simple observation that Apple unveiled its then new iPod photo around the same time last year, and that they'll want to cash in on the same holiday season buzz they did then.
But analysts noted that Best Buy has passed a period of easy market share growth that came after last year's collapse of archrival Circuit City, and may have misfired this holiday season by deciding not to compete more aggressively against its new direct competitors such as Wal-Mart and Amazon in favor of preserving profits.
Or they're performing on platforms behind the set (last summer's "Death Takes a Holiday") or in the boxes on either side of the stage (last season's "The People in the Picture") or, as in the case of the recent revival of "Godspell, " scattered in the seats throughout the theater's how appropriate orchestra section.
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This holiday season, though, it will grace the faded city's skyline for the last time.
And we opened the doors last night to the first of more than 50, 000 visitors who will come to the White House during this holiday season, and it's safe to say that everyone was really impressed.
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