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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.

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 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.

  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 th

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.

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.

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 di

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