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FedEx prepares for busiest shipping day of the year
Monday is one of the busiest days of the year for one of the world’s largest carrier companies. If you want to get your gifts beneath the tree in time, the deadlines are quickly approaching. The company expects to ship the most packages ever in...
Tags: FedEx Corporation
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Despite ports strike, U.S. cargo volume to rise 3.9% in December
Despite an eight-day port strike that in effect shut down seaports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, import cargo volume is expected to increase 3.9% in December, according to a retail group. A monthly Global Port Tracker report released Monday...
Tags: Cyber Monday, Arts and Culture, Holidays, Customs and Tradition
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Port strike averted as union, management resolve sticking point
A weekend strike by dockworkers from Maine to Texas was averted Friday after union and management negotiators settled a major sticking point and extended the contract deadline until Feb. 6 to hammer out the rest of a long-term deal. The announcement came...
Tags: Collective Contract, Medical Procedures and Tests, Unions, Wage Contract Issues, Career and Workplace
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New numbers show a certain group is overspending for the holiday season
You are not alone if you still haven't finished your holiday shopping. Some people are looking for deals, and some are just last minute shoppers. But it might surprise you how much people are spending who's shelling out more this holiday season. Alan...
Tags: Holidays
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What fiscal cliff? Shoppers push up retail sales, prices fall
This post has been updated. See below for details.Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping. Retail sales across the nation rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December as Americans put fiscal cliff...Tags: Services and Shopping, Lifestyle and Leisure, Economic Indicator, Fiscal Cliff, Prices
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'Fiscal cliff' has some Americans delaying big purchases, others ready to dive in
Across the country, a sudden shift is taking place. Bobbie Cleave, a retired teacher in Utah, has put off plans to get a badly needed car. Brian Chandler, a data manager in metro Atlanta, is delaying buying a house, despite needing space for his...
Tags: Small Businesses, Economy, Business and Finance, Addison, Prisons, White House
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Retailers express relief that L.A.-Long Beach port strike is over
The nation's retailers are among those most relieved that the 8-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is over. Although the movement of goods to the U.S. from Asia for the holiday season had been largely completed weeks ago, the...
Tags: Barack Obama
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Port strike numbers are out to sea
Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...Tags: Collective Contract, Services and Shopping, Shipping Service, Panama, Career and Workplace
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Options When There Are '0 Shopping Days Until Christmas'
The Hartford CourantYou'd think, considering what I do for a living, my holiday shopping would be done by August, my presents neatly wrapped by Thanksgiving and come Christmas Eve, I'd be sipping eggnog and watching "It's A Wonderful Life." You'd be wrong. Instead, I...Tags: CVS Corp., Services and Shopping, Gifts, Restaurants, Trips and Vacations
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Shoppers hit the stores for last minute holiday shopping
WSBT-TVThe countdown to Christmas is on, and nowhere is that more evident than in the retail world. There are now just 2 more shopping days until Christmas. Saturday was dubbed "Super Saturday." It was expected to be the busiest retail day of 2012, even...Tags: Religious Festivals, Holidays
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Susquehanna Valley Shoppers Hit the Stores for Black Friday Deals
Multi-Media JournalistBargain hunters hit the stores Thursday night throughout the Susquehanna Valley in search of the best deals on electronics, jewelry, clothes and many other items. For some shoppers, Black Friday has turned into an all-night experience. Some began at... -
Contract talks between dockworkers, management break down
Talks have broken down between the union representing nearly 15,000 East Coast and Gulf longshoremen and the group representing shippers and port operators, with little more than a week to go before their contract expires.
Meeting Tuesday in Newark, N.J....Tags: Strikes, Port of Baltimore, Manufacturing and Engineering, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Machine Manufacturing
Dec 10, 2012
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Dec 5, 2012
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Dec 23, 2012
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