- Clothing
- Ann Taylor: [Clothing] 30% Off Entire Purchase w/ coupon FRIENDS + Printable
- Armani Exchange: [Clothing] – 20% Off Sale Items + Free Shipping (no minimum) w/ coupon FRSHP09
- The Limited: [Clothing] $15 Off Any Purchase or $30 Off $100, $50 Off $150 w/ coupon 193390879 + Printable
- Lands’ End: [Men’s Apparel] Lands’ End Men’s Overstocks: Deals from $4 + free shipping
- Wet Seal: [Women’s Apparel] Wet Seal Sale Event: Extra 40% off clearance
Retail Services
Morning Deals
By 11.17.09
Reader Says He Was Tackled At Walmart For Not Showing Receipt
By 11.16.09
Robby didn’t feel like showing his receipt to the Walmart receipt checker, and when the guy came after him, Robby ignored him. That’s when other shoppers started closing in on him, and why he started running.
15 Years In Prison After Cutting The Line At Walmart?
By 11.16.09
Here’s a strange story from southeast Missouri. Three years ago a college student was waiting in line at Walmart. Her cousin was waiting in another line that was moving faster. The college student, now a teacher who lives in Louisiana, joined her cousin in the “faster” line. This apparently started a confrontation with other customers (and eventually the police) that may cause the woman to spend 15 years in prison.
Website Tracks Black Friday Deals
By 11.16.09
The website BlackFriday.info tracks post-Thanksgiving sales ads as they’re posted and leaked, giving you one-stop shopping to find out what deals will be worth elbowing strangers in the face for.
Read Disclaimer Before Taking GameStop Offer
By 11.16.09
Jeremiah is happy he double-checked a strange GameStop ad that lists games eligible for an offer that lets you trade two games in to get certain new releases for $20 or New Super Mario Bros. Wii for $10.
Reader Says Amazon's Gift Card Rules Are Stifling
By 11.16.09
Patrick says Amazon won’t let you use gift cards to buy items that come with discounts in the form of gift cards.
Morning Deals
By 11.16.09
- Clothing
- Amazon: [Shoes] Save an Extra $20 off Footwear and Handbags
- Payless Shoes: [Shoes] Extra 15% off w/ coupon 26292 + Printable
- Amazon: [Jeans] Wrangler Men’s Rugged Wear Classic Fit Jeans $6.84 a pair
- Figleaves: [Clothing & Accessories] Figleaves Designer Outlet: Up to 70% off
- Walmart: [Men’s Apparel] Puritan Men’s Short-Sleeve Polo Shirt 2-Pack for $6 + $1 s&h, more
- REI: [Men’s Apparel] SportHill Men’s Symmetry II Jacket for $30 + $6 s&h
You Can't Use A Barnes & Noble Gift Card For Ebooks
By 11.13.09
Update: Barnes & Noble says they’re changing this policy. If you or someone you know is getting a nook, Barnes & Noble’s version of the Kindle, this year and you want to use a gift card to fill it with books, forget it. For mysterious reasons, the retailer won’t allow it. (By contrast, Amazon does.)
Walmart Takes Steps To Prevent More Black Friday Chaos And Tragedy
By 11.13.09
Hoping to avoid anything even close to last year’s tragic Black Friday human stampede, Walmart stores nationwide aren’t opening at the crack of dawn. Instead of opening their doors at 5 A.M. and inviting sales-crazed frenzies, they will open at 6 A.M. on Thanksgiving Day, then remain open overnight.
Chase Raises Interest Rate On Closed Account
By 11.13.09
David closed his Chase credit card account instead of accepting a rate increase earlier this year. That should have been the end of it, but it turned out Chase later went ahead and increased the interest rate anyway.
Verizon Configures Phones So You Incur Erroenous Data Charges? (To The Tune Of $300 Million)
By 11.13.09
If you have a Verizon phone, you’ve probably at one point accidentally hit a button that connects you to “Get It Now” or “Mobile Web.” Arg. And it’s double-arg when it turns out that even if you cancel right away, you still get hit with a $1.99 1MB data charge. According to a tipster, this is totally on purpose. [More]
Dollar Store Grand Opening Attracts Hundreds Of Shoppers
By 11.13.09
To promote the opening of a new store, ultra-discount chain 99 Cents Only stocked a few things they don’t normally carry, and sold them for 99 cents. Things like iPods and scooters. When they opened a store in San Jose, Calif., this sale proved popular. Very popular.
Time To Formulate Your Black Friday Safety Strategies
By 11.13.09
Looking ahead to Black Friday, America’s annual equivalent of soccer hooliganism, Bargain Babe Julia Scott enlists the help of fellow blogger Suzanne O’Connor to compile some safety tips to keep in mind when you brave the ravenous deal-hunting crowds.
What Cheer? Consumers More Glum Than Ever
By 11.13.09
Retailers have been hoping that we’d enter the annual Festival of Shopping with higher spirits than last year, but it looks like that might not happen after all. The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was updated today, and it shows a drop to 66.0, “well below October’s reading of 70.6 and a sharp reversal of the 71.0 figure economists had expected.”
Walmart Security Guard Gets Head-butted, Sat On, Peed On
By 11.13.09
It was a rough day at the office for a Michigan Walmart security guard last week. The Muskegon News reports a guard was physically abused and humiliated as he tried to stop two female shoplifters from making off with some goods that they found priced too high.
Morning Deals
By 11.13.09
- Kids
- Disney Store: [Gifts] Save an Extra 20% off Toys, Apparel, & More ($89 minimum purchase)
- Toys R Us : [Toys] $15 Off $100 Purchase w/ Coupon TOYSHOLIDAY + Multiple In-Store Coupons
- Trainz (via eBay): [Toys & Hobbies] Lionel Train Sets from $140 + free shipping: Thomas & Friends, Polar Express, more
Middle Class Shoplifting To Keep Up Appearances
By 11.12.09
Shoplifting is up 20% in the UK as choice cuts of meat, fresh fish and fancy cheeses are increasingly getting stolen, mostly by middle-class women from boutique food emporiums and convenience stores
Newly Frugal Behavior Is Permanent, Say Some Consumers
By 11.12.09
A new study says that 26% of US consumers “have no plans to return to their free-spending ways,” which probably doesn’t sound like good news to retailers. Even worse (for retailers), about a third say they’ve become less loyal.
