Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Amazon.com, eBay, Target Corp., Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Amazon.com, eBay, Target Corp., Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores
The post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon continued Monday with nearly 100 million shoppers expected to troll online retailers for bargains on what has become known as Cyber Monday, helping to make the sector one of retailing's few bright spots.
Extra staff was added to the workday to handle the crowds that will come to the big box stores along Route 23 for Black Friday.
The highly anticipated Walmart Cyber Monday 2009 sales event has launched on Walmart.com. Walmart Cyber Monday deals include $249 Nintendo Wii Value Bundle, $598 17.3-inch HP Pavilion Laptop with 4GB RAM and 250GB HDD, $398 Sony Bravia KDL-32L504, eMach...
Amazon and Walmart.com head a lineup of good news from online shopping sites.
On Black Friday, the West Coast saw a healthy sales increase, while the Northeast took a tumble. Overall, shoppers were only interested in bargains
Aggressive, early discounts by e-tailers prompted heavy buying through "Cyber Monday," but consumer holiday spending could falter overall
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top broadline retail companies are down at noon: BJ's Wholesale fell $.65 or 1.9 percent, to $34.35. Costco fell $.53 or .9 percent, to $59.50. Target fell $1.56 or 3.3 percent, to $46.14. WalMart fell $.49 or .9 percent, to $54.14.
Police say a fire has broken out among Christmas trees for sale outside a Walmart on New York's Long Island during a busy holiday shopping weekend.
A venerable brand of tabletop and gift items is saying “Cheers” in a campaign that seeks to polish its image so brightly that it sparkles everywhere.
While Black Friday deals on laptops and HDTVs helped to lure shoppers to stores and online sites over the weekend, it's still unclear whether sales of consumer electronics products really brought retailers much holiday cheer.
A 19-year-old Chippewa Falls man was arrested Thursday at Wal-Mart in Lake Hallie after he pulled out a knife near employees.
Investors took a dim view of early holiday season sales on Monday, with shares of Best Buy , Amazon and American Eagle Outfitters among the few positive performers on hopes they were gaining a larger share of consumer spending.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top broadline retail companies are down at 10 a.m.: BJ's Wholesale fell $.37 or 1.1 percent, to $34.63. Costco fell $.03 or percent, to $60.00. Target fell $.86 or 1.8 percent, to $46.84. WalMart fell $.20 or .4 percent, to $54.43.
Walmart.com is kicking off Cyber Monday in a big way by introducing nearly 150 online specials on the season's top electronics, toys and video games, now available at www.walmart.com .
To paraphrase Stan Lee, with great Cyber Monday online and retail game deals comes great responsibility not to rubber stamp them. That said, the pressure's on, especially after a report from the National Retail Federation suggested US consumers spent significantly less at the outset of the holiday season this weekend than over the same period last year.