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Shoppers spent less as household budget pressures hit, Worldline NZ data shows. It said spending at core retail merchants, not including hospitality and food and liquor shops, was down 3.9% on the same time a year ago, at $346 million. That is despite inflation running at more than 5% in the year to September. The […]
CHICAGO — Retailers are gearing up for Cyber Monday after Black Friday shoppers spent record amounts online. For some families, it is still a tradition, but for others, the thrill of shopping till they drop may be gone. “I was actually shocked for being Black Friday that there were so few people here today,” one […]
CHICAGO — Retailers are gearing up for Cyber Monday after Black Friday shoppers spent record amounts online. For some families, it is still a tradition, but for others, the thrill of shopping till they drop may be gone. “I was actually shocked for being Black Friday that there were so few people here today,” one […]
According to the consumer financial services company BankRate, more shoppers are looking to local businesses for their Christmas and holiday shopping. With numbers showing 61 percent of people surveyed were opting to go local this year over 51 percent who had said they were planning on looking for Black Friday Deals. And throughout the Black […]

71% of Welsh food businesses now have the top hygiene rating of 5 – a jump from 44% from 10 years ago – making it the highest on record in Wales. In 2013, Wales became the first country in the UK to make it a legal requirement to display hygiene rating stickers in prominent places, […]
President Joe Biden is seeking reelection to a second term. AP Photo/Susan Walsh An a episode of NYT’s “The Run-Up,” Black voters discussed Biden, Trump, and the Democratic Party. Several Black voters expressed varying degrees of disappointment with the administration. One Black voter told The Times he perceives Democrats as empowering Black women over Black men. […]
HSBC’s online and mobile banking services have been restored after customers faced major disruption on Black Friday. The bank said the issues began just after 8am on the busy shopping day due to an issue with its “internal systems”. Services were back and up and running on Saturday morning, having started to return late on […]
MILWAUKEE — The second annual Blackity Black Holiday Market, hosted by HYFIN Radio Milwaukee on Saturday, aimed to connect shoppers with locally owned Black businesses. What You Need To Know The second annual Blackity Black Holiday Market, by HYFIN Radio Milwaukee, aimed to connect shoppers with locally owned Black businesses. There were 50 vendors this year and a thousand attendees, […]
Encouraging people to shop local on Small Business Saturday Today is Small Business Saturday, the annual shopping holiday that falls between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. SEATTLE – Small Business Saturday is the annual shopping holiday that falls between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Started back in 2010, the campaign’s main focus is to encourage […]
However, regulars are back supping their pints in the Samson and Lion on Sunday evening with a staff member saying it was “open as usual”. The blaze on Brierley Hill Road was tackled by West Midlands Fire Service. The building on fire was the Samson and Lion pub. It was reported at around 5pm on […]