Americans are buying more gifts for themselves
New market research suggests that roughly 25 percent of us are at the top of our own holiday shopping list
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 4:04 PM UTCLife AlterNet, Wall Street Journal
Black Friday
Life AlterNet, Wall Street Journal
6 ways retailers trick you into buying more crap
Follow these holiday shopping guidelines and you just may be able to afford a vacation in the new year
Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 10Life AlterNet, shopping, Retail
You’re being tricked into buying that awful sweater!
New research shows that simple scents like cookies and oranges can get consumers in the shopping spirit
Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 5:00 PM UTCLife Pacific Standard, Christmas
Is Wal-Mart the enemy?
The mega-store's employees are battling for fair pay, real benefits and respect -- and not to harm the company
Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 11News Occupy Wall Street
Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness
Shootings, stompings, miscarriages and a trampled corpse: Black Friday atrocities only reflect our own dark desire
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 11Business shopping, commercialism
Online shopping powered Black Friday
And hundreds of Walmart workers walked out
Sunday, Nov 25, 2012 8:05 PM UTCLife Walmart, Black Friday, iPad
1,000 Walmart protests across the US
An update on nationwide strikes and solidarity demonstrations VIDEO
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 6:51 PM UTC 52News Labor Rights, Strike, Walmart
Man pulls gun on Black Friday line-cutter
San Antonio shoppers turn violent waiting to get into a Sears store
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 4:36 PM UTC 57News Guns, Consumerism, Black Friday
Black Friday descends into madness at Kansas Victoria’s Secret
A frenzied crowd is held back by security guards outside the lingerie store VIDEO
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 4:19 PM UTC 31News Madness, Victoria's Secret
Wal-Mart walkouts are just the start
A single strike on Black Friday won't dent the retailer's profits, but it could be the first of many
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 11Politics Wal-Mart, Thanksgiving
Capitalism’s grossest win: The final triumph of Black Friday
From Plymouth Rock to Thanksgiving at Best Buy: The Puritan ethic went spectacularly astray, all for an iPad mini
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 98Business shopping, Walmart strike, Walmart
I won’t shop on Thanksgiving
I don't blame corporations for the consumer forces that warped our national holiday. I blame us
Friday, Nov 23, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 46Life shopping, Target, Black Friday
Don’t shop at Wal-Mart on Friday!
If you care a lick about America's work force, help push its largest employer to improve its employees' wages
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 9:31 PM UTC 72Business Unionization, Unions
Wal-Mart’s Black Friday showdown
Everything you need to know about the historic strikes and the attempts to shut them down VIDEO
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 9:42 PM UTC 28Business Labor Rights, OUR walmart, Unions
The desperation of Black Friday
Sales numbers may have broken records, but a Wal-Mart waffle-maker riot warns against optimism VIDEO
Monday, Nov 28, 2011 6:30 PM UTC 34News Black Friday
Black Friday: Consumerism minus civilization
When the "Crazy Target Lady" becomes a midnight-sale shopping-obsessed cultural icon, we've gone too far VIDEO
Friday, Nov 25, 2011 2:00 PM UTC 94News Black Friday
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