black friday

The holiday shopping season is once again upon us, and that means looking for great deals for all the items on our shopping list for our friends and loved ones. Rather than wading through crowds of hundreds of crazy shoppers at the big box stores in town, why not head to these locally-owned alternatives to get the same items on your list?

With Christmas right around the corner, shopping season is here!  While buying local should be a priority, the reality for me is that shopping online for a few things can be helpful since there are many times I work late and I don't have time during the day to get it done.  Not only that, but I can often save even more money online and a good friend of mine delivers for UPS, so I get to keep him b

Check out how the top retailers are competing for your holiday dollar.

Wondering when all those big stores will be opening and offering those massive discounts this Black Friday?

While a few lake effect snowflakes continue to fall in the later hours of Black Friday 2012, snowfall totals are coming in from around the area. The snow, which made travel very difficult through much of Minnesota and Wisconsin Thanksgiving and Black Friday definitely added up in some portions of the region.

As reported earlier, the possibility of winter weather threatening travel and activities for Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the Twin Ports was looming. The National Weather Service has now made it official.

As the busiest shopping time of the year approaches  criminals are getting ready to take advantage of unwitting shoppers and stores. Learn how to protect yourself, whether you are a business owner, store employee, or shopper.

While weather for travelers in Northern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin will be nice on Thanksgiving morning, wintry conditions will be making their way into the Twin Ports region  by Thursday night and Friday - making travel a little more difficult for holiday drivers and shoppers.

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday continue to grow--consider shopping locally Saturday, November 24th, to help give a boost to our local economy.

I hate crowds.  I'm slightly claustrophobic.  But I love to save money.  And I love getting gifts for others.  So that's why I have transformed from a Black Friday-phobe into a Black Friday shopper.  I've only gone a few years now, but it's a nice tradition my friend and I have started.  We search out the stuff we want, coordinate a plan, and head out at midnight.  But are we really saving money b

More than a third of American shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping. That's good news because stores might offer bigger incentives to get sales in the few weeks before Christmas. According to a Yahoo News Article a survey done by America's Research Group said that about 32 percent of people finished a majority of their Christmas shopping in November...

Rebecca Black‘s ‘Friday’ was one of the biggest viral videos of 2011, and just when you though the song was dead, buried and gone from our collective consciousness, it’s getting a shot in the arm and dragged back to the forefront of pop culture in time for the holidays. As reported by The FW, the song has been reworked for a Kohl’s Black Friday ad, with a zealous shopper (who has a little crazy in