Shoppers News

A small black bear managed to figure out how to get inside the Sears store using the automatic doors, but couldn't find its way out.

A Spanish store knew that shoppers would go to great distance just to score a good deal. The store decided to launch a different type of promotion.

Hoffman Estates - Sears may face a wave of angry customers after it mistakenly advertised a 16-gigabyte, Wi-Fi only iPad 2 for $69. Online customers were surprised by the deal of a lifetime, but after the confirmation order, Sears cancelled the purchase.

Oceanside - A woman at a shop in California created excitement and confusion when she spent thousands of dollars to buy items for "poor Mexican women."

Buffalo - Several Black Friday shoppers eager to get great holiday deals were trampled Friday morning as desperation to get bargains caused the crowd to surge through the opened store doors, at a Target in North Buffalo, New York

Three nights ago in a fine downtown Portland restaurant there were three customers for dinner: the two of us and one guy sitting at the bar. It seems at the start of the holiday season winning or losing is an individual matter with merchants.

The recession may be making life more difficult but for shopaholics this is a dream come true. So get out your visa and come along for some of the best buys this year.

Jdimytai Damour, a temporary worker, was trampled to death by crazed shoppers on Black Friday at the Wal-Mart in store on Long Island, N.Y. Should Wal-Mart have had better crowd control? Local police and a lawyer for the worker's family say “Yes!”

Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping day of the year, has resulted in tragedy from coast to coast. Just hours after a worker was trampled to death at a Wal-Mart in New York, two people were killed in a shooting inside a Toys "R" Us in California

The advertising industry's been telling us for years that what they produce is art. Recent discoveries in Iraq suggest the confusion between art and advertising goes back 5,000 years.