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"Dittos for Kiddos" Spring Consignment Sale Takes Over the Taylor County Expo Center Round Building February 26-March 2 [UPDATED]

Shay Hill — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:00:38 +0000

If you have kids you know how fast they grow out of their clothes. You also know that it’s possible to spend a small fortune on those clothes and toys. Dittos for Kiddos is Abilene’s oldest and largest children’s consignment sale and their is not much you can’t find or afford. Dittos was designed [...]

Toddler Helps Dad Teach You the Fundamentals of Fighting

Emerald Catron — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:23:08 +0000

If you can get past the initial nose picking in this video, you’re in for a pretty good time. We don’t think that repeatedly karate chopping the back of someone’s hand is necessarily the best way to disarm a person with a knife, but it’s funny because it’s a baby who is dressed up like [...]

"Her Expo" Comes to Abilene, June 30th

Shay Hill — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:53:17 +0000

If there is one thing ladies like to do it's shop and spend the day thinking about only herself. The "Her Expo" is the perfect place to do that and best of all it's all in one place. There will be much to see from lots of vendors so check out the details and don't miss this upcoming event.

Are Store Owners to Blame for the Crowds of Shoppers?

Kathy Landin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:05:56 +0000

When you think of holiday shopping, the least enjoyable is getting bumped by crowds of people, right? Brett A.S. Martin, a professor at Queensland University of Technology Business School in Australia, definitely knows this, since he believes congestion is actually caused by store owners filling their aisles to the brim with as many products as possible.

Darius Rucker's Wife Forbids Him From Christmas Shopping

Alanna Conaway — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:45:19 +0000

Don’t expect to see Darius Rucker making any late night runs to Walmart in the coming weeks to do any Christmas shopping for his kids. Not that he’s done with his Christmas shopping — he’s just not allowed to do any shopping for the holidays himself.

Body Scanning Comes To The Mall [VIDEO]

Rudy Fernandez — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:31:57 +0000

Body scanning technology that is in use at all of America's airports is now being used in the commercial retail world. The new "Me-Ality" (a play off of the word reality) body scanner is not looking for guns or explosives, but rather to get your real size for a better fit and to help cut down on your shopping time at the mall.

Fights At Black Friday Sales [VIDEO]

Rudy Fernandez — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:49:02 +0000

Black Friday is a day where everything we gave thanks for and asked God to make us a better person at, all goes out the window. There is nothing worse than listening to women call each other names curse, claw, scratch and fight over a few items that are on sale for a few hours and for a limited few people. This was not limited to just women, it's that women were the ones I witnessed doing all the a fore mentioned and more. It appears that this "black Friday deal shopping" has become a sort of full contact sport and has men and from what I mostly saw, women using fowl and threatening language. What has happened to us? Why have we allowed a few stores to lure us into this type of "Jerry Springer mentality?"

Retail Workers Fight Back Against Thanksgiving Day Openings

Shay Hill — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:54:21 +0000

Last week I reported to you that stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Macy's & Best Buy were moving up their "Black Friday" openings to Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, to get a jump on the holiday shopping season. It just seems to get earlier and earlier every year and at some point you have to fight back. That's what the employees of Target are doing now.

Stores Open Earlier Than Ever This Year: Thanksgiving Day

Shay Hill — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:15:25 +0000

It's typical for stores to open early on Black Friday, the name given to the biggest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving. But it seems it's getting earlier and earlier and this year it's even gone so far as to stores opening on Thanksgiving Day itself. Retailers are trying to make up for lost sales this year by opening earlier and staying open later to do it.

'Smart Cart' Syncs with Phone Apps to Help You Shop

Shauna Wright — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:20:54 +0000

There’s little more frustrating than making a trek to the grocery store, only to get home and realize you forgot something important.

Mobile service provider SK Telecom hopes to change all that with a tablet PC-equipped Smart Cart that will sync items from a grocery-list smartphone app and show you exactly what you need to get. The WiFi-connected tablet even uses GPS to display product info and discounts while you shop, and makes recommendations based on past purchases.

My Baby Has To Get Those New Shoes [VIDEO]

Rudy Fernandez — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:27:27 +0000

The saga begins a few weeks ago, when my little princess asked me for some new "Bella Ballerina Skechers" that she saw on TV. It was on one of those kid channels. The next time the commercial comes on, she DVR's it, and summons me to sit and watch it, several times. That's when I challenged her, that if she wants those shoes she needs to do a long list of chores and complete the list by the end of the week. I'm thinking, I am going to save some bucks here, 'cause she can't get all this done, right?