The Washington Times Online Edition

Retailers wait for weekend sales numbers

← return to Out of Context

Retailers anxiously are awaiting a tally of sales figures from the Thanksgiving weekend, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, Heather Cobun is reporting.

The retailers want to know if Black Friday really put them in the black, or whether the economic downturn made weekend shopping a shade of gray.

It's a profit motif. After all, how bad can the bottom line be when shoppers will trample a store worker to death to get a bargain?

 

 

Comments
blog comments powered by Disqus
Talk of the Web
Happening Now
Most Read

    Independent voices from the TWT Communities

    Out and About Baltimore

    Charm City Charmers: a not-so-ragtag group of Baltimore area writers lead by Tamar Alexia Fleishman