Retail and Shopping
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Early-bird holiday shopping may cost you $370 more in the end
Oct 28, 2018 1:00 am - Want to rein in spending this holiday season? Wait until the last minute to shop. Late shoppers in the U.S. are more likely to mind their purse strings, while early bird...
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Barrington raises age to purchase tobacco, vaping productsOct 23, 2018 5:22 am - Barrington village board members Monday night approved raising the minimum age for buying tobacco and vaping products such as electronic cigarettes to 21 from 18. Villag...
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Welcome to the first holiday season without Toys R Us
Oct 21, 2018 1:00 am - One week before Thanksgiving, FAO Schwarz's signature toy soldiers will stand at the ready to ring in the holiday season. Three years after closing its Manhattan flagshi...
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Wine consumption spikingOct 19, 2018 1:00 am - The U.S. wine market reached 344.7 million nine-liter cases in 2017, an increase of 1 percent, according to the Beverage Information Group's 2018 Wine Handbook. That's d...
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Guaranteed authentic: Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale a 'safe' place to shopOct 16, 2018 11:00 pm - Debbie McArdle, president of the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association, says the organization's 44th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale is different from oth...
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Buffalo Grove puts temporary ban on dog, cat salesOct 16, 2018 1:00 am - As Buffalo Grove leaders continue to debate regulations to prevent the sale of dogs from suspected puppy mills, the village imposing a six-month moratorium on the wholes...
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Sears' 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
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District 300 lodges complaint to halt Sears tax incentivesOct 12, 2018 1:00 am - Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 has filed a lawsuit against Sears Holdings Corp. to prevent it from receiving local property tax revenue as an economic incen...
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With few seeing second act for Sears, company shares routed
Oct 11, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sears was being pummeled before the opening bell on a report that banks are pushing the 130-year-old retailer to liquidate. The report Thursday in The Wa...
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Sears could finally be nearing bankruptcy after years of decline