Posted by The Merchant on Dec 27, 2011 | 0 comments
Post Christmas Retailer Closures Begin
One day after the “Mega Monday” sales of December 26th — the fourth named shopping day of the 2011 season (after Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Free Shipping Friday and Super Saturday) — the announcement of store closures begins: Kmart/Sears will close 120 stores it was announced today. This is just the first bomb of 2012 in a changing retail environment that will likely mark significant changes for Christmas shopping of the future. Expect more. Many in the industry will blame...
Posted by The Merchant on Dec 22, 2011 | 0 comments
Add Best Buy to List of Retailers Stiffing Online Customers
The rash of off-line retailers stiffing online customers just added a big name: Best Buy. Customers who ordered product in November (during key promotional periods!) won’t get that product before Christmas — and many will not get those orders at all. “The list of reasons that Best Buy’s board should fire CEO Brian Dunn just got longer,” writes Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. Why? “A number of orders made by customers from BestBuy.com will not be delivered by Christmas. And, Best...
Posted by The Merchant on Dec 9, 2011 | 0 comments
Retailers Stiff Online Black Friday Shoppers
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. “I ordered just three movies advertised at Target.com as part of their Black Friday promotion,” said Janice King, of Reno, Nevada. “They had Happy Gillmore, Leatherheads, and Disney’s A Christmas Carol for $5.99 each and I ordered them just after midnight when their sale...
Posted by The Merchant on Nov 17, 2011 | 0 comments
The Christmas Gifting Solution: Chocolate
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’t a thing I could do about it — the car was turned in and I was headed into the drab airport terminal for what looked like a long wait. Between my lousy day and my long delay, I was seriously bummed. Turning to my phone for solace I asked Siri the most probing of life’s questions:...
Posted by Jeff Westover on Nov 2, 2011 | 0 comments
Where Have You Gone Andy Williams?
Sad news out of Branson, Missouri these days as legendary crooner Andy Williams — frozen in our minds each season belting out Happy Holidays! — is getting long in the tooth and may not even be able to appear at his annual Christmas variety show. Williams, who next year celebrates 75 years in the entertainment business, is unable to sing or perform and remains under a doctor’s care. The man is well into his 80s now and we should cut him some slack. But in the world of Christmas music...
Posted by elf on Oct 14, 2010 | 0 comments
Queen Elizabeth has canceled a popular Christmas event at Buckingham Palace, citing concerns that the event would be viewed as too lavish and inappropriate during difficult economic times. The event usually costs the Queen $80,000 to pull off and is famed for allowing her or Prince Phillip to mix and mingle with commoners, some noting that the event might see “the Queen dancing with a footman or...
Queen Cancels Christmas Pa...
Posted by The Merchant on Oct 13, 2010 | 0 comments
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 after it came out. But so far, Apple has signed Target and Best Buy to the iPadmania and with more than...
Walmart Joins the iPad Chr...
Posted by Merry Jester on Oct 5, 2010 | 0 comments
I get weary this time of year. This is when the soldiers of fortune in the War on Christmas come out from their hiding places and do their best to stab each other in the heart with sticks of holly. For most of the year neither side seems to care about past battles. Nobody wants to fight the war on Christmas in July. But whenever the frost hits the pumpkin look out.
Don’t get me wrong. I am as...
Dodging a Bullet in the Wa...
Posted by elf on Oct 5, 2010 | 0 comments
All the shopping and Black Friday sites are prognosticating that Apple’s iPad will be the hot must-have item for Christmas 2010. That is why, we suppose, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft said this week that a new Windows based tablet computer will be out for this holiday season. The announcement has taken many by surprise.
“You’ll see them this Christmas,” Ballmer said during a speech at...
Microsoft Takes a Run at i...
Posted by The Merchant on Sep 23, 2010 | 0 comments
Hold Off on the Flat Scree...
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 season. It has been estimated that prices will keep falling until they bottom out at 12% below 2009...
Posted by Christmas Movie Critic on Sep 9, 2010 | 0 comments
Kung Fu Panda Christmas
A few years ago it was Shrek the Halls — an exploitation of Christmas and a pre-launch to the last version in the Shrek franchise. It must have worked because Dreamworks Animation is doing it again, this time with Kung Fu Panda. The big news is that Dreamworks has a sequel for the Jack Black-character-in-animation hitting the big screens in the spring of 2011, called Kung Fu Panda: Kaboom of Doom....
Posted by elf on Aug 26, 2010 | 0 comments
Commodore 64 Coming Back f...
There she is, the wanna-be PC of the early 1980s that inspired a whole generation of geeks. It was a $200 computer in an age where real computers were out of reach to the common person. With a creaky floppy drive and two-tone graphics at best, the Commodore gave a rising generation its first real computing experience. And now it is back in all its chunky key glory. Well, kinda. A group of what appears to...
Posted by elf on Aug 12, 2010 | 0 comments
NBA Announces All-Star Chr...
When Santa gets done making his Christmas rounds he is likely to do what alot of Americans: tune his big screen to a big game. Traditionally sports on Christmas in America usually means an early college bowl game. But professional basketball could easily steal the holiday spotlight this year. For those who follow the NBA, look at what they just announced for Christmas this year: Heat versus Lakers, on ABC...
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