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...Corp., which runs both the Sears and Kmart department stores, is running a Christmas promotion a full five months before Saint Nick leaves the North Pole with his reindeer. On both the sears.com and kmart.com homepages, customers are invited to "Shop Christmas Lane," and are directed to deals on holiday ornaments, stocking stuffers and other winter-related merchandise. The Christmas goods will also be on display in 372 Sears stores throughout the country; the promotion runs through July 25. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...
...aren't exactly in the Christmas spirit. So what convinced Sears, which has seen nothing but annual same-store sales declines at both its namesake and Kmart stores over the past four years, that skeptical shoppers want to open up their wallets for Christmas gifts now? "After the last holiday season, customers told us that they wish they had seen some of our merchandise earlier," says Natalie Norris-Howser, a Sears spokeswoman. "People are buying earlier today. Also, customers have grown accustomed to the Christmas-in-July terminology, so we wanted to leverage that." Norris-Howser also pointed...
America's Independence Day may be over, but those freedom-loving individuals wandering around Harvard Square this (surprisingly sunny and not rain-filled) Sunday were still able to indulge in another country's red, white, and blue. Bastille Day, France's national holiday commemorating the July 14th storming of the Bastille prison 220 years ago, came to Holyoke Street today as revelers scarfed down cheaper offerings from local restaurants such as Finale's and Rialto and downed alcohol in a roped off area in front of Cambridge Savings Bank designated the "Beer Garden...
America's Independence Day may be over, but those freedom-loving individuals wandering around Harvard Square this (surprisingly sunny and not rain-filled) Sunday were still able to indulge in another country's red, white, and blue. Bastille Day, France's national holiday commemorating the July 14th storming of the Bastille prison 220 years ago, came to Holyoke Street today as revelers scarfed down cheaper offerings from local restaurants such as Finale's and Rialto and downed alcohol in a roped off area in front of Cambridge Savings Bank designated the "Beer Garden...
When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign on July 3, many assumed there must be a looming scandal. Why else make the surprise announcement late in the afternoon before the July 4 holiday - the equivalent of a news black hole - in tones that varied from angry to anxious? Palin even hauled her husband back from a commercial fishing trip to be by her side...