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Spending on Food, Gifts and Apparel Expected to Increase This Easter (2011), According to NRF
Spending on Food, Gifts and Apparel Expected to Increase This Easter, According to NRF -Easter Sales Continue Climb to Pre-Recession Levels- Washington, April 7, 2011 – Not since 1943 have Americans seen an Easter fall this late in the calendar, but it seems the delayed holiday won’t impact consumers’ eagerness to spend on décor, food [...]
READ MOREWinn-Dixie Offers Solutions for Valentines to Give Love at Home This Year
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Making this Valentine’s special for your sweetheart is a cinch this year, and doesn’t have to break your budget. Winn-Dixie WINN 0.00% is using its culinary expertise to offer lovers a restaurant-quality make-at-home Surf & Turf meal, and is throwing in the chef for free. Using [...]
READ MOREMoney can’t buy you love…but a Universal Gift Card can!
Valentine’s Day is easy for men, all they have to do is buy a bunch of roses or box of chocolates and their significant other will be over the moon. What about us girls though? There’s no easy gift to give to men on Valentine’s Day! Foxnews.com put together a list of the worst gifts [...]
READ MORECourt puts New Jersey’s gift card law partially on hold
Provisions of New Jersey’s gift card law may be unconstitutional, the Third Circuit recently ruled, affirming a temporary injunction against the retroactive application of certain parts of the law. USA February 1 2012 In 2010, the state passed a law that, for the first time, provided for the escheat of gift cards to the state. [...]
READ MORE“Super Saturday” Spending Breaks Record
By jmosscrop Created 12/22/2011 – 11:21am By Craig Johnson, Customer Growth Partners Despite being only the penultimate Saturday before Christmas, 2011’s “Super Saturday” Dec. 17 broke the all-time record for holiday spending, with an estimated $26 billion in total retail sales, according to retail consultancy Customer Growth Partners. The total was just shy of the [...]
READ MOREAmerican Eagle debuts in three international markets
American Eagle debuts in three international markets By jmosscrop Created 12/21/2011 – 4:46pm Pittsburgh – American Eagle Outfitters announced Wednesday that it has opened stores in three new international markets — Morocco, Jordan and Egypt. The company said it also opened its third store in Saudi Arabia, and has plans for a second store in [...]
READ MOREPlastic Jungle Receives Strategic Investment From Citi Ventures Funding From Citigroup Unit Will Accelerate Bringing Liquidity to Gift Card Economy
SAN MATEO, CA, Jan 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Plastic Jungle, the web’s largest secured gift card exchange, today announced that Citi Ventures, a unit of the global financial services company Citigroup, has made a strategic investment in Plastic Jungle. Plastic Jungle brings liquidity to the secondary gift card market by allowing people to [...]
READ MOREMost popular retail gift cards can be used just like cash
Oklahoma business Q&A with Rebekka Rea, executive director of the Retail Gift Card Association Published: January 5, 2012 Q&A with Rebekka Rea Rebekka Rea, executive director for the Retail Gift Card Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City. – PROVIDEDMost popular retail gift cards can be used just like cash Q: Gift cards are a very popular [...]
READ MOREMaximize Gift Cards With Newest Shopping Holiday – Gift Card Weekend
Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) December 05, 2011 Consumers not only get to choose the gift they want by redeeming their holiday gift cards on January 6-8, 2012, they can also make that gift even more valuable by participating in the newest shopping event of the holiday season, Gift Card Weekend (GCW). During GCW, gift [...]
READ MOREReports Show Mobile Payments Are Catching On
Consumers on the go are using their smartphones to pay for items they buy in a bricks-and-mortar environment, according to reports released by retailers this week. Baby apparel and toys seller Magic Beans, a 5-store chain based in the Boston area, saw that 18% of all transactions were made with mobile self-checkout in lieu of [...]
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