Word: malling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...research company, Friday’s nationwide sales rose 8.3 percent over last year. Nationwide store visits increased 4.8 percent, but overall spending decreased, according to the National Retail Federation. For those students who did remain on campus, Black Friday provided a chance to grab discounted items at the mall. Lisa M. Yu ’11 woke up at 5 a.m. with her roommate to purchase clothes and memory soft pillows as gifts for the upcoming holidays. “The holiday season is definitely about gifts,” said Yu, adding that a trip to CambridgeSide Galleria...
...year falls on the earliest possible date, November 23, giving Americans 32 days before Christmas to find the perfect gift. But with the specter of a possible looming recession and a lack of must-have items in stores, fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...
...predicts a $7 billion increase in gift cards this season, reaching $35 billion, compared to the $28 billion spent on them last year. Likewise, online shopping continues to rise, with forecasts predicting between 18 and 21% growth. Both those trends mean customers are not hanging around stores and the mall as long, and Cohen says that should translate into fewer impulse buys, which have traditionally made up 26% of holiday purchases...
...soldiers. "I live in two different worlds," says Ammar Obaidat, who rose from gardener to head elephant keeper at the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, "and I have to keep a balance between my work and traditions of my Muslim family. It's not easy." Shopping in the Jerusalem Mall, Obaidat speaks Hebrew with his wife and kids, hoping to blend in. But since his wife wears a hijab, or head scarf, the family is immediately tagged as Arab...
...Bennelong hub of Eastwood mall, constituents say they are enthralled by the ever-smiling McKew. "She's like a beauty queen," says Paul Besson, 57, who admits his dislike of Howard is so strong that "I would vote for Maxine even if she had a forked tail." An art promoter who asks to be identified only as Peter says he's voted for Howard in the past but not at the last election of 2004, and he won't be this time. While most politicians are loose with the truth, Peter says, Howard's dishonesty extends to matters...