Wal-Mart pushes Christmas shopping


	Wal-Mart pushes Christmas shopping

wiccantexan

10-4-2009 7:02 PM

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10-5-2009 9:32 AM

oldbogus

MallWart is doing shoppers a favor! So thoughtful!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ba4a20f9-36cc-426f-8177-76efdbba8918/6D56A063-59B1-457B-91C3-0596FEEBF601/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx" href="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.woai.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx"><DIV>The holiday shopping season usually kicks off the day after Thanksgiving, however, Wal-Mart decided to start the sales now. The retail giant kicked off holiday shopping a few months early offering 100 different toys, from Tonka cars, to Barbies, to board games. All for 10 bucks a pop. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx"><DIV>With a rough economy Wal-Mart is banking on shoppers buying early. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx"><DIV>"You do 10 dollars here and 10 dollars there, you don't really feel it rather than doing it all at once. Once you do it all at once, you have this big lump some on top of your bills, so it's kind of hard," said shopper Daisy Mendoza. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/business/story/In-a-sign-of-the-times-Wal-Mart-pushes-Christmas/uj-znDc4JEemEWSDaSyg-w.cspx"><DIV>And hoping budget-conscious buyers take notice. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6D56A063-59B1-457B-91C3-0596FEEBF601/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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