Ann Arbor area residents who still plan to fly in or out of Detroit Metro Airport this holiday season should expect increased stress among fellow air travelers due to terrorism fears, a University of Michigan clinical psychiatry professor said Monday. On Friday, officials say a 23-year-old Nigerian man on a ...
Ypsilanti's historic Depot Town has undergone many changes in the last few years, but despite those changes and a tough economy, many local retailers are having a good holiday season. Depot Town Community Development Corp. Executive Director Erik Dotzauer said that Depot Town has experienced "quite a bit of turnover."
‘Tis the season for inflatable snowmen, dolled up pine trees and rooftops lined with glowing, mechanical reindeer! Do you or your neighbors decorate for the holiday season? If so, send us a photo and enter AnnArbor.com’s “Deck the House” holiday decorating contest.
When Morgan and York Fine Wines and Specialty Foods ended up with extra inventory following last year’s holiday season, the retailer at least had one advantage over other stores with the same problem. Morgan and York sells products that get better over time. “We got stuck with lots of inventory ...
Customers aren’t likely to notice the difference, but Red Shoes Home Goods is one of many retailers to cut back on what would be considered a normal inventory for December. That’s because, also like many retailers, Red Shoes finished last year’s holiday shopping season with more products than expected, and ...
Tom and Cindy Hollander have found that fine decorative paper and housewares have more in common than rice paper and rice cookers. “There’s a lot of crossover,” said Cindy Hollander. “There are bookends and desk items, calendars and photo albums.”
It's Dec. 1 already, and the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Despite the fact that the nation is in recession, U.S. retail sales have risen every week for the past 12 weeks. The National Retail Federation is predicting that consumers will spend an average of $682.74 this year, ...
Ann Arbor-based Borders Group Inc. is facing perhaps the most important holiday season in its history without a defined electronic book strategy, an emerging segment that’s led to intense jostling among Borders’ competitors. Borders sells Sony e-readers at its stores, but the devices have been overshadowed by Amazon.com’s Kindle and ...
Local retailers hope the "buy local" movement gains momentum during the holiday season. After a slow spring and summer, how they fare in the remaining weeks of 2009 may determine who survives - and who next leaves Ann Arbor's business landscape. While reporting a recent article on the local outlook, ...
For marketers, the 2009 holiday shopping season marks a return to basics, an Ann Arbor-based online retail executive says.
Remember when Black Friday actually meant that big sales happened on a day that followed Thursday on the calendar? This year - in response to the economy and national projections that sales could be flat to worse during the holidays - some national merchants are pushing the season. Among them: ...
Ads for online retailer EBay Inc. seemed pretty common a few years ago - but the company stopped running them about 18 months ago as it tried to shore up its sagging sales. Now the company will launch a new campaign today as it seeks to change its image. Forget ...
Local retailers head into the biggest sales months of 2009 knowing that the shopping decisions made during this time could affect which local stores survive.Retailers that count on fourth-quarter sales - particularly after a dangerously soft spring and summer - to hit annual goals are watching sales trends closely.
Ann Arbor-area retailers appear to be making modest plans to hire seasonal help as they gear up for a holiday shopping season that many hope will merely keep pace with last year. Store owners, some of whom are starting to interview candidates for temporary, mostly part-time jobs in areas like ...
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