Published on December 1, 2021 at 5:16 p.m. by Elise Luoma The Holiday Shopping Season: Black Friday, Free Shipping and Early Shopping The gift-giving season may not start until mid-December, but early shopping has commenced. Whether the Nintendo Switch, Apple AirPods Pro or the infamous Peloton
Published on November 16, 2020, at 4:50 p.m. by Katey Quinn. As I set out Black Friday shopping last year for the first time since I was a teenager, I realized what keeps people coming back year after year: tradition. We certainly do not put
Published on November 22, 2017, 3:23 at p.m. by Hope Runyan. No skipping the pumpkin pie. No waiting in lines. No Black Friday shopping. In 2015, outdoor retailer REI stood up against one of the busiest shopping days of the year — Black Friday —
Published on November 22, 2016, at 1:07 p.m. by Amelia Neumeister. Tired, coffee-driven shoppers stand in lines for hours outside Walmart or Best Buy to be the first ones in the door. Once the doors open, they shove their way to a cart so they
Posted on January 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. by Hayley Kilgo. Out with the pumpkins, in with the candy canes. Just one day after Halloween, many stores across the nation were ready to bring in November with a different holiday — Christmas. So, what about
Posted on December 1, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. by Caroline Giddis. The scent of honey-baked ham wafts through the living room. Family members you haven’t seen in months gather around a large table. They laugh, scoop up handfuls of sweet potatoes, and enjoy one another’s
Posted: December 4, 2014, 9:11 p.m. by Kelsey Weiss. It’s the day after Thanksgiving. Still suffering from a turkey-induced food coma, you drag yourself out of bed before dawn to wait in line and take advantage of the latest holiday deals, along with hundreds of
Posted At: December 9, 2013 11:30 a.m. by Jessica Smith. Another Black Friday has come and gone, and with it a new trend arose: #WalmartFights. People used the Twitter hashtag to show pictures and videos of fights in Walmarts around the country.
Posted At: October 31, 2013 10:20 a.m. by Sarah de Jong. Many shoppers are outraged that stores are trying to take away from the holiday. While it may increase sales, opening stores on a holiday is iffy on the PR side. The stores that open
Black Friday 2010 is a strong example of how social media and the Internet are changing the way consumers shop. Shoppers who chose to scour the Internet instead of the malls on Black Friday gave online merchants a 16 percent revenue increase from 2009. According
