I have a hot tip to share today with Fargo area shoppers - there is a new store in town. I first saw the store before Christmas, but never had a chance to visit it until yesterday. The new store is called Kirkland's and it is located on 13th Avenue in the Hobby Lobby strip mall. Kirkland's is [...]
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Fair and square.
JC Penney's has a new CEO - Ron Johnson. Johnson comes to JC Penney from Apple and has been tasked with pulling the mega-retailer out of its slump. Johnson's most notable effort to date has been the implementation of a new pricing strategy for JC Penney called Fair and Square Every Day. This strategy sought to [...]
Now that is a blue light special!
I am old enough to remember the days of K-mart blue light specials. Those were the specials that they announced over the store speaker while you were shopping that lasted for a short period of time (maybe 30 minutes to an hour) and that you had to go to the blue light location to get [...]
Pimping Christmas…
I know I am not alone in my dismay over the increasing commercialization of Christmas. I do believe that my bitterness may be becoming more noticeable than others around me though, as I have now taken to referring to the huge retail push for sales that begins earlier each year as the pimping of Christmas. That's right. Retailers are [...]
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