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On many car dealership lots and in showrooms, shoppers might not notice much of anything happening. That, salesmen said, is a major problem -- car sales are taking a nose dive in light of financial worries amid an unsteady economy.
When I was a kid back in the Depression era 1930s, I never had trouble telling which of my classmates at school were wearing a pair of shoes from the Goodfellows. Everyone wore the same black, plain-toed low-cuts from J.L. Hudson's because it was the only store in Detroit that gave the Goodfellows a break on prices.
It was like a scene from some bad 1960s movie. I was sitting in a stark room, facing a man dressed in a tuxedo and he was telling me I had cancer. The fact that I was woozy from the sedative did not help - or maybe it did.
I don't think there is anywhere we can go these days where the faltering economy doesn't enter into the conversation eventually. Whether it's a group of men, women or a mix, someone is surely to mention a personal situation affected by the happenings over there on Wall Street.
We're used to Macca telling us how out-there he's been as a Beatle and The Fireman. But, asks Michael Odell, did he really invent electro, too?
Whover said "Life is a game" never played Monopoly with my sister.
More than $10 billion in sales were rung up on Black Friday 2008, according to the mall traffic watching company, ShopperTrak, which is a 3% increase over Black Friday 2007....
Have a tight holiday budget? Here are 12 ways to make everyone on your list happy that won't make you poor.
Wondering which video gameĀ to get your teenager? Which box setĀ to get your dad? Wonder no more: Star critics reveal the choice contents of their own shopping bags.
Black Friday in New Bern bore out what analysts had predicted -- still a steady stream of shoppers, but a common mantra of cutting back or sticking strictly to lists.
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