Retail and Shopping
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Jewel-Osco limiting purchases, Instacart deliveries surge in response to coronavirus fearsMar 06, 2020 12:00 am - Jewel-Osco stores are setting limits on purchases of certain products as coronavirus fears set off panic buying of hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. The supermarket...
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Art Van Furniture, PureSleep closing all stores, liquidation sales begin FridayMar 05, 2020 12:00 am - All Art Van Furniture and Art Van PureSleep stores will close, including those in the Chicago area, with liquidation sales beginning Friday, the company announced Thursd...
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Barrington officials celebrate Gilded Rose Atelier openingMar 03, 2020 12:00 am - Leaders from the Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce and village of Barrington recently celebrated the opening of Gilded Rose Atelier, 140 S. Northwest Hwy. "Barrington ...
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A Best Buy program gets shoppers to pay twice the list price on big-ticket items
Feb 29, 2020 5:22 am - Best Buy last spring began offering a splashy lease-to-own program to customers who'd been rejected for its store credit card. Progressive Leasing, executives said, woul...
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How to make your brand loyalty pay off
Feb 23, 2020 5:10 am - Blogger Dani Austin of Dallas, Texas, logged into her Southwest Airlines account a few days before the end of 2019. Shortly after, she and her husband, Jordan Joseph Ram...
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You're probably sitting on at least $167 of unused gift cards
Feb 23, 2020 5:00 am - More than $20 billion in unredeemed gift cards and store credit is floating around the U.S. and there is a good chance some of it belongs to you, according to a survey c...
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Costco getting $5.5 million tax rebate to build second store in NapervilleFeb 18, 2020 12:00 am - Naperville City Council members want a second Costco in town enough to pay $5.5 million for it in the form of sales tax incentives. The council unanimously approved a d...
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Family-owned Toms Price continues to thrive through more than a centuryFeb 17, 2020 12:00 am - In 1976, Tom Vogelsinger and his wife Lynn were just a few years post-graduation from the University of Illinois when they bought their first house in Wheaton. “We star...
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Level by level, Strawflower renovation brings changes to downtown GenevaFeb 16, 2020 6:20 am - The "renovation sale" and "for sale" signs in the display windows at Strawflower Shop & Rug Merchant may confuse passersby. Still, they represent precisely what owners M...
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Chardonnay in the shoe department: Retailers are increasingly serving alcohol to woo shoppers