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That's why you'll see Black Friday-level discounts today and beyond, but with a focus on storewide sales rather than individual door-buster specials. FigLeaves.com started out with up to 50% off storewide sales and increased it to 70% in anticipation of Cyber Monday. Amazon.com has already taken as much as 65% off prices for kitchen appliances and household items. "There is more breadth of merchandise on sale for Cyber Monday," says Sucharita Mulpuru, principal analyst of e-business retail at Forrester Research. "Whereas Black Friday is limited to an assortment of items that are high-velocity drivers...
...Black Friday shopping frenzy was palpable in midtown Manhattan on Friday as dozens of clothing retailers touted their "door buster" sales of 50% or more off everything from diamond jewelry to cotton hoodies. Crowds even broke one of the doors at Macy's Men's Store. That paled in comparison to the death of a Wal-Mart worker in Long Island who reportedly got trampled to death by bargain hunters. But by mid-morning on 34th Street, many stores were half empty and some sales staff said they had noticed that shoppers were holding back this year. (Looking...
...Indiana Governor: The Future of the Party Mitch Daniels was a somewhat tragic figure as President Bush's budget director, a policy-wonk, small-government conservative who found himself carrying water for a politics-driven, big-government budget buster. His aides almost had to strap him down to get him to sign a White House-directed letter supporting the corporate-welfare farm bill of 2002. But as Indiana's governor, he's gotten to do things his own way, privatizing roads, expanding health coverage, even supporting tax increases to get his state's fiscal house in order. His tough-love...
...remember [Palin] called my little brother ‘Buster.’ He had a big crush on her, he was eight,” Howk said. “She looked pretty much the same, she had the big hair...
Through his work as a pork buster, McCain has opposed flood-prevention projects in swing states like Missouri and Virginia, drought aid for Nevada and New Mexico, and economic development for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. His has been a lonely vote against funding for the Florida Everglades and Yellowstone National Park. He has opposed money for schools, bridges, military bases, disaster relief, military housing, senior housing, renewable energy programs, job training programs, health care for veterans, services for disabled kids and just about everything else his Senate colleagues have stashed into spending bills, which is to say just about everything...