Holidays
12/02/2008
A solid start for sales
However, the sales came at the expense of profits as retailers slashed prices to entice consumers to shop.
11/30/2008
Local Christmas tree sellers are keeping their fingers crossed
GLOCESTER — It may be the year of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
12/01/2008
Back to work and hunting for holiday bargains online
Retailers are angling for attention online today, trying to grab sales from people who may not have been impressed with the prices they found in stores during the long holiday weekend.
11/30/2008
Shopping ‘the high-low’
Luxury has lost its luster this year amid the economic downturn, and that has both consumers and retailers redefining what constitutes high-end shopping.
Tips for reining in holiday gift-giving
Want to keep the holiday crush under control without inciting a family riot? Try suggesting these gift-giving ways.
11/29/2008
Holiday shopping: A guide to the gift guides
Need some help sorting through the dizzying array of gift guides? Here are some of the more distinctive gifts from the annual gift guides by major specialty publications.
11/28/2008
Hope Street merchants form a stronger force for sales
PROVIDENCE — Merchants along Hope Street in the city’s Summit section are pulling together to form a business association they will use to market the area as a shopping destination.
11/27/2008
Retailers cross their fingers
Many stores plan early openings tomorrow. Shoppers are expected to turn out in droves — but will they spend?
Macy’s keeps Christmas traditions on display
Retail visionary R.H. Macy was friends with legendary showman P.T. Barnum — two rich guys hanging out in the 1860s.
La Salette, Edaville turn on the lights
For scale and grandeur, few outdoor Christmas displays can compare with the Christmas Festival of Lights at the La Salette Shrine in Attleboro. For more than half a century, busloads of people from around New England have witnessed the spectacle of a few hundred thousand lights illuminating the trees that surround the shrine, where Roman Catholic pilgrims pray to Our Lady of La Salette, a vision of Mary they believe to have appeared to two children in the French Alps in 1846.
Nutcrackers in Providence, Fall River, Newport
Nothing says Christmas quite like The Nutcracker. And you’ve got a few options to see the balletic tale of a toy that turns into a prince and protects a young girl from menacing mice.
Next stop: Christmas
Christmas is coming. You know this. And perhaps you know what to do about it.
A holiday that can drive you crazy
May I blaspheme?
11/25/2008
Families thankful to reunite for holiday
Five-year-old Lauren Williams will get to know two older cousins she hasn’t seen since she was nine months old. She’s hoping to attend a high school football game with her daddy on Thanksgiving Day. She’s debating which of two dresses she’ll wear.
11/21/2008
How to help this holiday season
The Providence Journal is publishing requests from local charities for holiday giving. If your nonprofit organization is seeking holiday donations or volunteers, or if it has services or goods to offer the needy, we will publish your request once during this holiday season, as space permits. The complete list of holiday giving and donations will be posted on our Web site, projo.com.
11/20/2008
Early spirit of Christmas fills the airwaves
For listeners of 105 FM, lite rock has gone dark. At B-101 FM, oldies are a thing of the past. Instead, Christmas has come early.
11/18/2008
Online retailers expected to do better than stores during holidays
Free shipping, free return postage on unwanted items and coupons will be among the perks expected by online shoppers.
