A contest for our Winnipeg readers: With this latest snowfall, it’s beginning to look a lot like…. Well, you know. Get a jump on your holiday shopping next Saturday at Winnipeg’s St. Vital Centre’s Behind Close Doors event in support of the Arthritis Society. Behind Closed Doors is an after-hours evening of wall-to-wall sales throughout [...]
Today, Mashable published a story about brands shutting down the Facebook shops they had rushed to set-up. Apparently, they weren’t seeing the ROI they were hoping for. From Mashable: A Bloomberg report this weekend pointed out that Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and GameStop have all opened and closed shops on Facebook within the past [...]
The holiday decorations and music have been out since retailers cleared out the pumpkins and skeletons from Halloween. Shopping hit a feverish frenzy as Black Friday descended upon the masses last week. And now as the masses make beelines for the malls, outlets, and local independent stores, it is time for a retail reality check [...]
