Walmart might have had some decent toy prices on Black Friday, but a new report says that not only did those low prices not last — many of them went up. [More]
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What Was The Best Gift You Ever Received?
By 12.10.10
Yesterday we asked you to tell about the crappiest present you ever received. And after all that outpouring of bad memories and disappointment we’re ending the week in a better mood. [More]
Would You Ever Rent Your Christmas Tree?
By 12.10.10
When we recently asked Consumerist readers if they would ever purchase their Christmas tree online, a few commenters wrote that they kept their tree potted all year round and would just bring it inside during the holidays. And now we’ve learned that there are a handful of businesses are offering this same service, for a price. [More]
More Shoppers Favoring Paper Over Plastic
By 12.10.10
In what’s probably a side effect of discipline learned the hard way in a tough economy, more shoppers are starting to opt for cash instead of credit cards. [More]
What's The Crappiest Gift You've Ever Received?
By 12.9.10
With the Christmas countdown in full effect and Hanukkah 2010 in the books, the topic of gifts and gift-giving is everywhere. But for all the holiday cheer and goodwill, some gifts are bad enough to bring out the Scrooge in all of us. [More]
Dismissed Macy's Santa Finds New Gig… At A Bar
By 12.9.10
Many of you will remember the story from the other day of how a San Francisco Macy’s kicked its long-time Santa to the curb after he made a slightly off-color comment to some adult shoppers. Well it looks like at least someone in the Bay Area has the holiday spirit, because Santa has found new employment where he won’t have to worry about saying something inappropriate. [More]
Target Employee Fired Over Black Friday Trampling Incident
By 12.9.10
After 14 years on the job, the head of security at a Buffalo, NY, Target store has been given the heave-ho-ho-ho after video of customers being trampled on Black Friday became an internet sensation. [More]
Here Are The Most Counterfeited Products For The Holidays
By 12.7.10
I didn’t know people still wore UGGS, but then again I’ve been wearing the same shoes for three years now (I do actually take them off on occasion). Apparently, enough people are still hungry for the trendy footwear that they top SiteJabber’s list of this holiday season’s most Top 10 Counterfeit Items.
SiteJabber, which lets shoppers rate and review websites, put together this list based on the volume of complaints registered by its users. [More]
Macy's Santa Gets Saucy, Ends Up On Unemployment Line
By 12.7.10
After two decades of listening to the wish lists of kids of all ages at the Union Square Macy’s in San Francisco, Santa Claus is out on his jolly old ass. And it’s all over a joke he claims he’s told thousands of times before. [More]
Would You Buy Your Christmas Tree Online?
By 12.2.10
In November, Target started selling fresh-cut Christmas trees on their website, joining Costco in the growing number of companies who have turned to the web to offer holiday greenery. [More]
What's On Your Holiday Wish List?
By 12.1.10
The holiday shopping season began last week and the holiday gift-giving season kicks off tonight at sunset with Hanukkah: Day 1. We already asked you what your smartest purchases have been so far, but now it’s time to focus on those things you want other people to buy for you. [More]
What Was Your Best Black Friday/Cyber Monday Purchase?
By 11.29.10
You might have noticed in the last week that a small handful of forward-thinking stores and websites have offered discounts on products to kick off what some would call the “holiday shopping season.” [More]
The Lego Advent Calendar — Now With Naked, Showering Santa
By 11.29.10
Consumerist reader Trevor was having a look through Lego’s online shop when he decided to take a closer peek at the company’s Lego City Advent Calendar set. And what he saw there was something that could shake any child’s feelings about Kris Kringle to the core. [More]
How Much Of Your Holiday Shopping Will Be Online?
By 11.29.10
Don’t know about you but I finished 90% of my holiday shopping this weekend, and all from the comfort of my couch. [More]
Yesterday Was The New Black Friday
By 11.26.10
If it seemed as though the Black Friday hysteria wasn’t as outrageous this morning as it has been in years’ past, maybe that’s because so many people had the chance to get a jump on the shopping season yesterday. [More]
90 Percent Of E-tailers Will Participate In Cyber Monday
By 11.23.10
Just as gamblers use Monday Night Football to make up for their brutal disappointments throughout the weekend, shoppers who fall short during Black Friday mayhem turn to online shopping on Cyber Monday to snatch up the supposed best deals available. [More]
Walmart To Offer Price-Matching On Black Friday
By 11.22.10
There are only a few more days until we get Thanksgiving out of the way and can start worrying about what really matters — Black Friday. And Walmart has come out swinging in the retail battle for your holiday shopping dollars by announcing that it will offer price-matching. [More]
Who Made Consumer Reports' First-Ever Naughty & Nice List?
By 11.22.10
While Santa and his pointy-eared, non-union laborers toil away at the North Pole, the editors of our more famous sibling publication Consumer Reports have compared their notes on a wide variety of companies’ policies on everything from guarantees to fees to refunds and distilled it down to the best and worst of the lot in their first-ever Naughty & Nice Holiday Shopping List. [More]
