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Major Retailers Feel the Squeeze From Consumers (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Major Retailers Feel the Squeeze From Consumers (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Once seemingly invincible marquee chains like Coach, Starbucks and Abercrombie & Fitch are settling for ho-hum growth this winter.
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Even the giant retailers feel the squeeze (Post-Bulletin)
hael Barbaro New York Times As the nation's merchants began poring -- or weeping -- over holiday sales receipts Wednesday, a surprising pattern emerged: even brands that for years have inspired the undying devotion of shoppers felt the pinch of tigh
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Donors Filling Teachers' Wish Lists (Hartford Courant)
Website Allows Direct Giving To Meet Classroom Needs Michelle Lewis' Christmas list includes a set of LeapFrog books for her first-grade pupils to use — or at least the $424 needed to get a shipment of them to her Hartford classroom.
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Review: Fujifilm Finepix s8000fd superzoom digital camera (infoSyncWorld)
Yet another 18x zoom, wide-angle lens SLR look-a-like, the S8000fd has the right look and the right stats. But did it stand up to the competition?
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Have yourself a greener little Christmas (Evansville Courier & Press)
Here are some tips on reducing your holiday waste from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
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Flip Camera Embodies Year of YouTube (ABC News)
Video camera makes pointing, shooting and sharing a snap.
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Tech File: Tips for buying, using digital cameras (San Jose Mercury News)
Lots of us are getting digital cameras for the holidays. My gift to myself was a Canon S5 IS. Unlike the other cameras I've owned, this one has a 12x optical zoom and a body that looks almost like one of those professional SLR (single lens reflex) models, only smaller.
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Batteries, test run add joy to gifts (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
There are few sights sadder than a kid with a new robot, truck, talking doll or hand-held poker game that won't play because Mom, Dad or Grandma forgot one simple thing: the batteries.
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Are you a shopping procrastinator? (The Argus Leader)
Only three shopping days before Christmas. If that comes as a surprise, you might be the person this story is about. Last-minute shoppers are a different breed. You can't miss them coasting through December with a confident smile and a laid-back attitude.
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Gifts for the traveling junkie (Sun Star)
LOOKING for Christmas gifts for someone who has been bitten by the travel bug? These ideas are guaranteed to make them remember you even when you are 10,000 miles away....
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