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We're excited to offer you Retail Online Integration's 50 best tips of 2010. Our editorial staff reviewed every word published in our print publication, e-newsletter (The ROI Report) and website over the past year. From there, we've extracted the best money-making and cost-saving pointers. Enjoy.

NOW that Halloween is done, Madison Avenue is embarking on the mad dash to Dec. 25. The sluggish economy is raising the stakes for the Christmas shopping season. Some retailers and marketers, worried that uncertainty among shoppers might increase as the weeks go by, hope to pull demand forward by moving up the start of their pitches.

The year’s most popular discount shopping event, referring to the Friday after Thanksgiving, is arriving ahead of Halloween this year, with some promotions beginning this week and others throughout November.

If there's a halo product for retail this holiday season, it's Steve Jobs' iPad, the fastest-selling new product in Apple's history.

Neiman Marcus may be known as a place for Texas-size yearnings and price tags, but in a sign of the economic times for luxury retailers, the company is being drawn to a less haughty shopper.

Department store chain Loehmann's has announced it will be closing up to 15 stores over the next 12 months.

The global economy has sped up the fashion cycle, transporting trends from Europe and around the world to the masses at a breakneck pace.

Popular retailer Forever 21 is doing something else no other chain of its type has done: It’s taking a big chunk of space in an existing Sears store.

Ikea has conquered the world with its stylish flatpack furniture, cunning store layouts - and the promise of meatballs for the weary shopper.