High prices for groceries, housing and entertainment are leaving shoppers with reduced funds as the holiday season descends upon us.
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There are a number of ways shoppers can resist the temptation of expensive gift options that might strain their budgets this holiday season.
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An expensive purchase price may not guarantee that your product will hold its value.
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An expert explains the subconscious effects of hearing nostalgic music on our shopping behaviour.
As online shopping increases over the festive period, so does the risk of cyber-scams.
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Cyber-scams tend to ramp up at this time of year, with criminals and scammers eager to exploit people’s generosity and excitement.
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More time to buy Christmas products could be a good thing for both consumers and brands.
Shoppers have been returning to physical stores in recent months.
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The rapid rise of online shopping is slowing but internet retail is here to stay.
Smart shopping.
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Digital retail is not just about buying online.
Gift-giving can be a joyful part of the holiday – unless it leads to a raft of late fees.
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Offers of interest-free loans may sound appealing, but there are many risks as well.
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Actions you can take to ensure modern slavery and child exploitation are not a part of your Christmas.
In the highly competitive toy industry, companies often take too long to issue safety recalls.
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How safe is the toy you may be buying for someone this Christmas? New research suggests that toy companies often take too long to issue recalls after they become aware of safety hazards.
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Novelty items, candles, pamper products and pyjamas top the list of unwanted Christmas gifts. So why not choose a better, greener option?
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The retail sector relies on a little festive excess.
An employee prepares items for a 2019 holiday sale at a Walmart in Las Vegas.
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We are addicted to consumption during these holidays, which leads to a massive amount of landfill waste. Giant retailers like Walmart could help the problem, but they haven’t.
The seductive power of holiday windows resonates in the French term for window-shopping: ‘lèche-vitrines,’ which translated literally means to lick the windows.
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The holiday window is laden with nostalgia and associations of childhood traditions and a longing for drawn-out moments.
The ability of online retailers to offer next-day delivery service for an annual fee or at an affordable price has dynamically changed the retail business and shifted sales from in-store to online.
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Innovation is integral to the success of Canadian retailers and encouraging consumers to shop in stores as well as online. The big strategic risk is not innovating and failing, but failing to innovate.
The shop drop.
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Now in its tenth year in the UK, the great American post-Thanksgiving bonanza is starting to look like a turkey.
Illustration of a market full of seasonal produce from Thomas Kibble Hervey’s Book of Christmas (1837).
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For Victorian shop workers, Christmas could be a miserable time of long hours and low pay.
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Six questions to ask yourself before you buy that last minute Christmas present.
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The idea of pop-up shops has been around for ages, but now even established high-street retailers are being forced to buy in.
Don’t think, just shop.
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Rather than simply trying to trick people, the masters of marketing know it’s much easier to understand and work with innate human flaws.