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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 [...]

Consumers intend to spend $17.6B on Valentine’s Day gifts

Consumers intend to spend $17.6B on Valentine’s Day gifts Don’t forget a romantic dinner – 70 million people to dine out February 05, 2012 My wife and I have already bought both of our families’ Valentine’s Day cards, chocolate boxes and that doesn’t include gifts for our cats and the gifts I will give my [...]

Winn-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 [...]

Money 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 [...]

Court 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. [...]

“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 [...]

American 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 [...]

Gift Card Issuers: Are You Prepared to Collect Purscher Data & Escheat Gift Cards to New Jersey?

The requirement by the state of New Jersey for retailers to collect name and addresses from consumers who purchase gift cards in New Jersey and escheat unused card balances after two years puts retailers in a difficult situation trying to balance consumer privacy and good customer service against being compliant with the new laws. This [...]

Plastic 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 [...]

Most 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 [...]