Brisbane Times

Grocery shoppers plied with rewards
Brisbane Times
AUSTRALIA'S big two supermarkets have stepped up their battle for shoppers' hearts and wallets in the past month, with revamped loyalty cards designed to keep baskets full and customers faithful. But as shoppers are greeted with the latest sales ...
Why supermarkets love loyalty cardsSydney Morning Herald

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Scotsman

High streets hit as cash-strapped Scots shoppers vote with their feet
Scotsman
By PETER RANSCOMBE SCOTLAND'S struggling high streets have been dealt a fresh blow today as figures reveal that the numbers of shoppers north of the Border plunged in the run-up to Easter. Retailers reported a 12.6 per cent drop in footfall in the ...
Shoppers desert the high street as rains sweep inMetro
Retail sales fall 12.6 per cent as storms batter high streetThe Independent
April deluge 'hit retail figures'The Press Association

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WSMR volunteer wins shopping spree
Las Cruces Sun-News
Glenn Robinson, Community volunteers and shoppers stand together at the end of a successful WSMR Volunteer Appreciation Shopping Spree. Deb Cervantez and her family, Sgt. Matt Cervantez and daughter Zoe are thankful for winning the 90-second, ...



LA's unwise war on shopping carts
Los Angeles Times
Coming up with laws mandating that stores should secure shopping carts shouldn't be the city's responsibility. The City Council has unanimously passed, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has signed into law, an ordinance that will require all new stores ...



AdAge.com

Are Consumers Ready for Mobile Grocery Shopping?
AdAge.com
Since few shoppers can wait for Amazon to ship their gallon of milk, smartphone usage in grocery stores is an entirely different beast than in big-box and electronic retailers, where the "scan and scram" phenomenon of price comparing runs rampant.



Tampabay.com

Bank says U.S. shopping trips costly to economy
Tampabay.com
Canadians making a run to the US border to shop are costing the economy much more than earlier believed, the Bank of Montreal says. "There are already more than 50 million visits to the US by Canadian residents annually," with the number expected to ...
Cross-border shopping 'drain' on economyTheChronicleHerald.ca
Cross-border shopping hitting economy hard, BMO saysCTV.ca
Bracing for Canadian shopping stampedeWIVB
Brandon Sun
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Gulf Times

Barwa Village shopping fest successful, say organisers
Peninsula On-line
Qassim Rahmatullah DOHA: The first edition of the Barwa Village Shopping Festival was able to bring big business and attract many customers into the complex, say officials. The eight-week event has brought more than QR15m businesses and over 20000 ...
Barwa Village officials hail 'successful' shopping festGulf Times

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After IPO, Facebook may go shopping
The News Journal
To shore up e-commerce offerings, Facebook could buy a shopping startup, such as social-buying service Payvment Inc., or an online-payment provider, he said. Building on the Instagram deal, Facebook may go after a social-video sharing service like ...

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Realignment fallout: CAA shopping for schools to replace outgoing VCU, ODU and ...
Washington Post
Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner Tom Yeager has lost two long-time member universities in the last week, and is now shopping for replacements. He's not happy about the task ahead. “There isn'ta commissioner around that doesn't think that this ...

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Developer submits application for new shopping center on High School Road
Bainbridge Island Review
A landscape plan for the proposed shopping center shows areas of the existing forest that will be preserved, as well as areas that include ornamental and other landscaping features. By BRIAN KELLY The developer that wants to build a new shopping center ...


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