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		<title>Retailers Stiff Online Black Friday Shoppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks after Black Friday and basking in the hum of non-discounted Christmas shopping season some retailers are having the last laugh at gullible consumers who bought into their Black Friday hype. &#8220;I ordered just three movies advertised at Target.com as part of their Black Friday promotion,&#8221; said Janice King, of Reno, Nevada. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Christmas Gifting Solution: Chocolate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a particularly tough day recently I found myself sitting on an airport car rental car shuttle bus fretting over a text message I had just received informing me of a long flight delay. There wasn&#8217;t a thing I could do about it &#8212; the car was turned in and I was headed into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LED Trees Quickly Growing in Popularity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dusting Off Bing&#8217;s Old Bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it with Bing Crosby this Christmas? He&#8217;s everywhere. Not only does he have a new album (of old stuff) coming up and not only is he doing a duet from the great beyond with Bryn Terfel but now he&#8217;s beatboxing for a UK retailer. Check out this Christmas commercial: Argos, a U.K. retail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Joins the iPad Christmas Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Merchant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t look now kids but Uncle Wally is getting the iPad. That&#8217;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&#8217;s part is unprecedented. The iPhone didn&#8217;t hit Walmart for more than a year and a half after it came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bah Humbug 2010: Cost of Christmas Travel</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2010/08/bah-humbug-2010-cost-of-christmas-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going home for the holidays? Get your tickets now. Word on the street amongst travel agents is that there won&#8217;t be a fare war in 2010 for Christmas. The airlines are in hype-cost-cutting mode and giving few deals. Fares vary depending on where you want to travel, so you should check multiple dates to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Show Predicts Christmas Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which showcases the Next New Things in interactive video entertainment. Almost 46,000 people from 90 countries attended this year&#8217;s expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center to showcase their wares and eyeball the competition. And, of course, to get media types like me excited about what consumers like you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Christmas Truck</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2009/12/the-christmas-truck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Christmas decorating done right &#8212; red-neck style! Central Iowa has had many versions of the Christmas truck over the last 25 years. Here’s how it began. Kris Marshall was carrying a generator and some Christmas lights to his church in his $50 used truck. Much like peanut butter and chocolate, the two combined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Firm Offers to House Mother-in-Laws for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2009/11/hotel-firm-offers-to-house-mother-in-laws-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hotel chain has promised families a stress-free solution to hosting the in-laws over Christmas in Great Britain, Sky News reported. Holiday Inn is offering a special room rate for mothers-in-law during the festive period, so that families can have a break from each other. Relatives can check their partner&#8217;s mother into a room and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Wanna Wii, Get It Now</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2008/07/if-you-wanna-wii-get-it-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Merchant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CEO of Nintendo is warning consumers in the U.S. that if they want to get their kids a Wii for Christmas they had better get it now. Come the holiday season it seems the Wii will be in short supply &#8212; again. He cites &#8220;unusually high demand&#8221; in the U.S. for the Wii. Consumers [...]]]></description>
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