LED Trees Quickly Growing in Popularity

LED trees are perhaps one of the biggest changes to Christmas traditions that has hit the holiday market over the past decade. While LED lights certainly have been making an impact, gaining praise, and sparking a lot of debate, making the choice to upgrade to a prelit LED Christmas tree is by far the boldest...

WalMart Polls Customers for Toy Deals

After last Christmas, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. turned to its customers to find out how it could improve toy shopping this holiday season. Moms told the nation’s largest retailer not to push Christmas toys until after Halloween passed and to give them more, not just $10 specials. That was a price Wal-Mart...

Walmart Joins the iPad Christmas Party

Don’t look now kids but Uncle Wally is getting the iPad. That’s right, this week at Walmart you can get an Apple iPad to go with your eggs, beef jerky and Fruit-of-the-Looms. The move on Apple’s part is unprecedented. The iPhone didn’t hit Walmart for more than a year and a half...

Hold Off on the Flat Screen Purchase

An oversupply of LCD TV panels in the US is causing television prices to fall. By the end of this month, LCD TV prices will be about 5% lower than they were at the same time last year. Retail survey firms have said the prices will start to plummet in October, with prices continuing to fall into the Christmas...

What WiFi Means for Your Christmas Shopping

It must be dead of summer and difficult to find much Christmas to talk about. But trust me — this is really big Christmas news. It comes from the Queen Mother of all retailers: Walmart, who also does business as Sam’s Club (which is just a Costco that takes Mastercard). While most of the retail...