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Holiday shipping deadlines are approaching faster than you'd expect with many cutoffs coming in less than two weeks. If you like to procrastinate or are just waiting for a new deal before ordering your presents online, Dealnews and other sites are compiling lists of shipping cutoff dates to make...

Thanksgiving has become known to shoppers as one of the best days to buy stuff online, but like most conventional wisdom about shopping it's actually not the best day to buy online. According to research done by Yahoo, online retailers saw a 147% increase in purchases on Black Friday compared to...

Super Bowl XLIII is only two days away, but if years past are any indication there are still plenty of people looking to purchase new HDTVs for their Super Bowl parties. Sales may jump even higher after consumers get a load of a new survey which found that spouses are significantly more likely to...

After a month filled with more financial turmoil than most of us can stomach, there is good news at the end of the tunnel: The first batch of Black Friday ads have begun to surface. In spite of -- and likely because of --the dour retail predictions extending through the third quarter of next year,...

Black Friday has traditionally been one of the busiest and most frantic shopping days of the year but with Christmas sales down in 2007 and the economy looking like a leftover fruitcake, many people are wondering if Black Friday can live up to past performances.To better grasp the severity of the...