Posted on 11/27/2005 4:18:26 PM PST by lainie
Hahaa!
Good night y'all. Happy trails. See you next Sunday! Thanks for amusing yourselves and behaving and all that. :)
Punnitt did this story last night. Bed time.
I say the X was no accident. that's my 2 cents.
Why won't they create a series of shows depicting what might happen should Hollywood vanish into thin air? Huh? How about that, Jeff Zucker?
The Royal Marines story, nauseating as it is, didn't really grab me that much. Fraternity hazing and violence among men being trained for war just didn't strike me as all that shocking. Maybe I'm getting jaded in my old age.
Missed ya tonight..see you next Sunday
Is this a cyclical thing or a sign of desperation? Or the price of steel going up?
The Macy's balloon thing is just plain weird. It busted up, hurt two people, and not only does NBC not report it, they show last year's footage in an attempt to rewrite what happened. That's very weird.
Sorry I missed you..see ya next week. Have a great trip!
yeah, that crap has gone on forever and ever.
OR Mabye it's like the scorpion and the frog story.
Why did you sting me?
I'ts just what I do!
Are you saying NBC just can't help itself from doctoring the news? ;)
Around here, we quote Red Dawn still, to this day.
"Let it turn. Let it turrrrrn!"
"As Calumet student body president...." (my favorite)
"All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid." "It keeps me warm."
It just came on in HD a few weeks ago and I watched it again for the umpteenth time :)
yeah I caught it again a month or so ago.It seemed better than iI remembered.
the WSJ reporting puts in doubt what the MSM is reporting as a luke warm holiday season! They must have their circulation numbers confused with holiday shopping. Of course internet sales are going up, and brick and mortars are staying even. Overall shopping is up! This is all to discredit Bush and his economic policies.
Sunday, Nov. 27
11 p.m.: WSJ.com's Scott Patterson reports. Retailers are slashing prices and offering low-cost financing to juice up sales, but earnings are likely to get squeezed as the price wars eat into margins already under siege from high energy costs. So investors betting that a jolly holiday-sales season will turn into lofty share-price gains for retailers may wind up with a lump of coal. More.
Kris Hudson
The lines were long before dawn on Black Friday at this Circuit City store in Arlington, Texas.
4 p.m.: WSJ's Kris Hudson and Mylene Mangalindan report. U.S. retailers rang up strong sales this weekend. Visa USA said retail sales using Visa-branded debit and credit cards increased 11% to $3.7 billion on Friday and Saturday from the same two-day period a year earlier. "Consumers don't appear to be suffering from a Black Friday hangover," said Wayne Best, Visa's in-house economist. More.
3:45 p.m.: Online sales jumped 22% on Black Friday to $250 million from a year ago, according to comScore Networks, a Reston, Va., market-research firm. During Thanksgiving week, online sales were the highest on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, when sales shot up 55% from the same day a year earlier. Thanksgiving Day this year was relatively light in terms of online sales, when spending rose 12% to $144 million.
11 a.m.: Despite a disappointing Black Friday, the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend is looking good for retailers. Holiday spending is expected to jump 22% to $27.8 billion during the four-day weekend from last year, according to a survey of shoppers by the NRF. About 145 million shoppers are expected to hit the stores this weekend and shoppers surveyed by NRF planned to spend an average of $302.81. Plus, read the NRF release.
Saturday, Nov. 26
7:30 p.m.: The official holiday-shopping season appears to have gotten off to a lukewarm start. Black Friday sales slipped 0.9% to $8 billion, according to a report by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which monitors retail sales at more than 45,000 retail outlets.
5:10 p.m.: PriceGrabber.com, an online comparison-shopping service, said Saturday that it saw a 77% increase in the number of shoppers over last year's Black Friday.
4:20 p.m.: Credit-card company Visa said that total spending on its branded credit cards on the important Friday after Thanksgiving grew about 14% from last year to more than $3.9 billion. Spending on personal entertainment led the retail category, followed by spending at specialty retail stores and home-and-garden purchases. More.
10:30 a.m.: Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, says it expects same-store sales at its domestic locations to grow 4.3% during November, at the higher end of its previous guidance for growth between 3% and 5%. The company didn't provide any total sales figures for the day after Thanksgiving, but did say sales were good, with both the Sam's and Wal-Mart divisions exceeding plans. More.
Friday, Nov. 25
11:00 p.m.: The Wall Street Journal's Ann Zimmerman, Amy Merrick and Ellen Byron report. Consumers turned out in droves for Black Friday shopping, lured by discounts on products from electronics to cold-weather gear and helped by a decline in gasoline prices. There were no apparent signs of shopper fatigue. But retailers will need to maintain that momentum through the holiday season in the face of higher energy bills and interest rates and competition from online shopping sites. More.
10:00 p.m.: The Wall Street Journal's Bruce Orwall reports. Shoppers will find their favorite stores pushing movie DVDs next week, based on the expensive flops that littered movie theaters four months ago. But consumers aren't likely to find the films any more tempting as stocking stuffers than they were at the box office. More.
6:00 p.m.: Of the more than 1,200 votes so far, WSJ.com readers would rather get a gift than cash or a gift card, according to our unscientific reader Question of the Day. When asked, "What would you rather receive for the holidays?", readers who participated in the poll put "gift" first, with 42% of votes cast; followed by cash, with 39%, and gift card, with 19%. Vote and read the discussion.
5:50 p.m.: The Associated Press reports on the first-day tally. Several major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Sears Roebuck and Macy's, as well as mall operator Taubman Centers, estimated they drew bigger crowds for the official holiday season launch compared with last year. Lena Michaud, spokeswoman at Target, which had a strong holiday season a year ago but recently cut its same-store sales forecast for November, said traffic was at least as heavy.
4:30 p.m.: Things got out of hand at a Wal-Mart store in Orlando, Fla., where a man who allegedly cut in line to get a discounted laptop computer was wrestled to the ground by security guards. See video of the incident from ABC affiliate WFTV.
4:20 p.m.: In a fall survey, 20% of shoppers said they planned to complete their holiday shopping by Thanksgiving. Nearly half said they wait until the last week before Christmas, while 23% finish the day before, according to the Direct Marketing Association. Read more details from the survey.
1:20 p.m.: Wal-Mart opened at 5 a.m. on Black Friday and many other retailers – including Best Buy -- followed suit. But Children's Place Retail Stores took it to a whole new level, pulling an all-nighter at its Disney Stores in New York, Texas and Alabama, which opened just after midnight on Thursday night/Friday morning. Target opened at 6 a.m. and offered free wake-up calls this weekend from celebrities, including model Carolyn Murphy, country crooner Brad Paisley and Muppet Kermit the Frog. More.
12:05 p.m.: While the day after Thanksgiving officially starts the holiday shopping season, it isn't the busiest shopping day of the year. Last year, it was Saturday Dec. 18, a week before Christmas. The 2004 Thanksgiving weekend rush accounted for just 9.2% of holiday sales, while the week of Dec. 12 to 18 garnered nearly 23% of holiday sales, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. See the ICSC's top-ten shopping days list.
10:25 a.m.: About 1,000 customers lined up outside the Macy's Herald Square location in New York at 6 a.m. Some of the biggest sellers were cashmere sweaters, down comforters and scarves – items that were up to 60% off – said Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy's parent Federated Department Stores. In a CNBC video report, Lundgren talks about Black Friday shopping. Plus, see the ICSC's 2005 hot gift list.
10 a.m.: Amazon.com said its best-sellers from Nov. 1 to Nov. 22 included Docker's Khaki pants, a $40 DVD player, two types of Apple Computer's iPod, a $19 quesadilla maker, James Frey's memoir "A Million Little Pieces," Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" CD and the "Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" DVD. The best-selling software included Intuit's QuickBooks Pro 2006 and Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2006. Apple shares rose slightly Friday. Amazon spokesman Craig Berman said those items were among the best sellers in their respective categories, but not necessarily the best sellers. See the complete list. Amazon also revved up its Holiday Delight-O-Meter for the season, reporting that over 37 million items have been sold via the online marketplace since Nov. 1. See Amazon.com for the latest number.
AZ Roman Distributor is selling this 7.5-ft. prelit upside-down Christmas tree, which can be mounted to the ceiling or displayed in a stand, on eBay.
9:45 a.m.: More than 5,000 of Microsoft's Xbox 360 game systems sold on eBay over the first 24 hours it was available in stores on Nov. 22, averaging about 3.5 sold per minute, eBay said. EBay also reported that the FLY Pentop Computer, Harry Potter Scene It? game and Thomas the Tank Engine are some of the top-selling toys at the online retailer so far. Among female celebrities with fragrance lines, Jessica Simpson is outpacing both Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez. See eBay's pulse report on today's popular searches. Plus, eBay's Jim Griffith tells CNBC about some holiday-buying and selling strategies and some of the hottest items on eBay, including the "upside-down Christmas tree." Toys "R" Us President John Barbour tells CNBC about this season's hottest toys.
8:30 a.m.: Shoppers hit the malls and stores early this Black Friday, the traditional start to the holiday-shopping season, and were rewarded with some nice sales from retailers hoping to draw big crowds early in the season. "This will go down as one of the earliest and most promotional Black Fridays in history," said Tracy Mullin, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, which tracks holiday sales. She said many stores opened earlier than before and retailers offered "unbelievable" discounts to spur shopping. More. Plus, in a CNBC video report, America's Research Group Chairman Britt Beemer says it will be a "good" but not "spectacular" Christmas, for retailers.
I listen to batchelor on WMAL 630 here in the DC area.
Doesn't his web site list the stations that carry him and alos offer a 'Listen Now' option?
Good luck! I get pre-empted here for Capitals Hockey, Wizards b-ball, and Maryland and Virginia b-ball too! Pain in the tookas!
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