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Fall is fleeting on a picture-perfect day in Chagrin Falls. This was taken in late October on the bridge overlooking the upper falls. (Joan Rusek, special to cleveland.com)
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- With a taste of wintry weather under our belts this past weekend, we know what is coming: the holidays.
Like everything else this year, they are bound to look and feel different. But, if you have presents to buy and ship and stockings to fill, it is time to get your shopping started.
Not to change the topic here:
UK lockdown shopping tips as shoppers face nightmare before Christmas
As the song goes, Christmas is meant to be "the most wonderful time of the year" but the majority of UK shoppers may not be so merry as the nation enters its second lockdown.
Some 70% of people buy their Christmas shopping in November, according to a survey. But following Boris Johnson's announcement on Saturday, non-essential shops will be closed until 2 December to curtail a second wave of infections.
As the impending lockdown shuts about 363,000 shops, it will force more shoppers to buy online or wait until December as an alternative.
Online Shopping Has Skyrocketed: Here Are Trends in Your State | PCMag
COVID-19 has supercharged online shopping in the US. This trend isn’t evenly distributed across the country, though.
That’s according to a new report from comparison shopping service LendingTree . LendingTree’s report uses the latest data from the Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey to find online shopping trends for those who want to stay on the pulse of local economies as the pandemic progresses.
First, the general trend: Nearly half (49 percent) of Americans reported that they had made more online purchases than usual over a seven-day period from mid-to-late September.
Crossgates announces new holiday shopping hours and safety guidelines
GUILDERLAND, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) — This year has been unlike any other with the holiday season coming in to cap it off. With that comes the rush of holiday shoppers. Although with COVID-19, Crossgates has announced new hours and initiatives to help make the holiday season safe for all.
Earlier in the year, retail marketing experts estimated retailers would encourage customers to begin their holiday shopping earlier with extended sales and deals spread throughout the season as opposed to the typical Thanksgiving/Black Friday start. Crossgates Marketing Director, Jennifer Smith, said several Crossgates tenants hopped on board with the idea.
Quite a lot has been going on:
RetailMeNot Day: Inside the 2-day shopping event
Last year over 300 stores participated, including the usual participants like Macy's, Home Depot, Adidas and Sephora, just to name a few.
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First, you need a RetailMeNot account to participate. If you shop Nov. 5th and 6th, through this account, you will get paid out by Dec. 21.
Last year shoppers earned on average about $19 and RetailMeNot paid out close to half a million dollars.
8 Healthy Food Shopping Tips - Consumer Reports
R ight now, you may be trying to make grocery shopping trips less frequent and more efficient so that you can minimize the time spent inside stores .
In fact, the percentage of people who food shop once every two weeks or less has nearly doubled during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a survey by the management consulting company McKinsey. Here, advice for getting the healthy foods you need without wasting time.
To reveal our tips, hover your cursor over (or tap on mobile devices) the black dots on the illustration below.
A new set of shopping tips in the pandemic - News - The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA - Quincy, MA
Prior to March, shoppers would go to the mall or grocery store — without masks — and scout out the latest sales.
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"With stay-at-home orders and mandatory store closures, many consumers have utilized digital channels and tools in ways they may not have before."
As how we shop changes (think mobile shopping and buying online, picking up in store), we have to adapt as shoppers, too.
The best prices and first available inventory go to consumers who are more than just shoppers. They're also deal-hunting detectives and strategists.
Alibaba is hosting world's biggest shopping event—Singles' Day—twice in 2020 | Fortune
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