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Slow holiday sales equate to big after-Christmas bargains (Harrisburg Horizons)
By Ben McNeely Shoppers and bargain hunters hit the wide corridors of Concord Mills mall Friday to scope out the sales struggling retailers are hosting to boost sagging holiday receipts. In the storefronts in the giant outlet mall in Concord, big red signs proclaimed sales of 30 percent to 60 percent off already-slashed prices. Deb Nance of Concord and her daughter, Tanya Frantz, and mother, ...
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Massive price hikes for package holidays (Belfast Telegraph)
Tour operators have increased the price of summer holidays by up to 40 per cent this year, raising the cost of an average family break to the Mediterranean by as much as £500.
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Huge price hikes on package holidays (Independent)
Tour operators have increased the price of summer holidays by up to 40 per cent this year, raising the cost of an average family break to the Mediterranean by as much as £500, according to research for The Independent.
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Liquor revenues increase (Saint George Spectrum)
ST. GEORGE - The economic recession may have caused some people to alter their spending habits, but sales at southern Utah state liquor stores still increased during the holidays.
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Resolve to break cycle of consumerism in '09 (Miami Herald)
One of my New Year's resolutions is to stop referring to myself as a consumer. The idea for the resolution actually came from reader Tom Krohn, who suggested it's not just the country's spending habits that need to change for the better but the language we use to describe who we are.
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Budget travel: around the world in thrifty ways (Daily Telegraph)
Nick Trend picks his top budget travel spots for beating the economic blues in 2009.
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As gas prices dip ... (Suburban Journals)
Yippee! Maybe. Officials at schools and other public entities in Jefferson County say that while they are pleased with plunging gasoline prices, they are still cautious in how they respond to the situation.
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Nine for 2009: How is the travel industry facing up to what looks like a tough year? (Independent)
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Simon Calder's nine trips for 2009 (Independent)
Austerity tourism: that is what many of us will practise this year. Fortunately, my overseas travelling began in the 1970s, when practically every British tourist was on a shoestring, so having a holiday on next to nothing is standard practice. Here is where I hope to go in 2009, and why, and how much I intend to pay.
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Robert McCrum: Buy a book and you'll have a very, merry Christmas (Guardian Unlimited)
The only welcome news about these hard times will be that it's probably good for reading (as in staying quietly indoors with a book), while the consumer cuts back on more extravagant distractions. Books have always done well in crises. The First World War was literary as well as lovely; the Second turned out to be the making of Penguin. So I'm betting that bookshops selling novels and ...
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