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Small Business Saturday took place this past weekend. American Express created Small Business Saturday in 2010 to help bring more awareness and consumer dollars to small businesses during the busiest shopping season of the year. It's accomplished just that, with the most recent edition the most successful yet according to results from the Small Business…

The Lands’ End catalog of today would have landed at my third-grade feet with more of a splash. The current edition stars Angela Lindvall, who has Chanel campaigns and Vogue covers on her résumé, smiling in $69 noniron pullover tunics and $139 floral party dresses. The pages still display teal mock turtlenecks and anti-pill fleeces,…

Activists who blocked the entrances to stores on North Michigan Avenue on Black Friday to protest the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago cop may have split opinions with their tactics. But their goal of forcing retailers to suffer economic pain on what's historically the busiest shopping day of the year…

Birchbox, the online beauty subscription service, is preparing to make a further incursion into brick-and-mortar retail with some key hires from big-name retailers to support its strategic retail expansion plans for 2016, the company announced yesterday. Most notably, it's brought in Philippe Pinatel as its new chief operations officer and president. Pinatel joins the company…

Neiman Marcus customers had to work a little harder to cash in on its big discounts over the long Thanksgiving Day-Black Friday shopping weekend. Outages hit the retailer Friday and Saturday as it offered $50 off $200 and an extra 33 percent off. And it was apologizing big time on social media and extending its…

Mattress Firm has agreed to acquire a competing chain, Sleepy's, in a $780 million deal that would give the Houston-based company access to new territory in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast while combining the nation's two biggest specialty mattress retailers. Company officials said the acquisition would make Mattress Firm the first truly national coast-to-coast retailer…

Cyber Monday got an infusion of tech-savvy innovation this year, as Mashable and Visa partnered to launch the Mashable Shop. Mashable is a tech community giant, with a savvy online presence and readership that's highly engaged with its content. With 45 million monthly unique visitors and 26 million followers across social media, Mashable is a…

Cyber Monday, the online version of Black Friday, isn't immune to traffic jams of shoppers rushing to take advantage of post-Thanksgiving sales. Some of the most popular websites experienced an overload on Monday, similar to a crowd pushing its way into an already packed brick-and-mortar store. Shoppers were for a period of time unable to…

The pace of online spending slowed on Cyber Monday after consumers started their internet shopping earlier over the weekend, turning to their smartphones to pick up deals, according to IBM. Web-based sales climbed 18 percent Monday from a year earlier, after jumping 26 percent on Saturday and Sunday, IBM said in a final report early…

Shoppers this year still wanted to get a head start on their holiday gift list on Black Friday, but overall were less willing to brave the crowds. Sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday both fell in stores this year, with a growing amount of people pursuing their discounts online instead. Brick-and-mortar sales on Black Friday fell from…