Three Dallasites went on a shopping mission last week to discover whats up with all of these smart phone apps. We tagged along to find out whether the tools save time and money. Each shopper was armed with an Android, a BlackBerry or an iPhone, plus decades of personal and professional retail experience among them at Bloomingdales, Lands End, Sears and Neiman Marcus. Read the Full Article

In the air-conditioned oasis of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, a number of beauty trends — frizz-busting salon services, Cosmoprofs Scorching Beauty Trends gel-polish manicures, antiaging hair care, Argan oil and its ballooning constellation of relatives, among them — were generating enough heat to almost contend with outside temperatures topping 110 degrees.

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More people shopped in stores and online this Thanksgiving weekend, spending 6.4 percent more on average than last year, according to a closely watched retail industry survey released Sunday. Aggressive online promotions, earlier store openings and more people shopping on the Thanksgiving holiday contributed to a $45 billion four-day weekend, up from $41.2 billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation

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Online shopping gains importance to retailers. Today is expected to be one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

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