The blizzard that created havoc in the south not only paralyzed travel but last minute Christmas Shopping. Many shops and stores in the south just didn’t open because owners and employees were unable to get to work. The retail stores that were open found little to no shoppers and put a bitter end to what was an excellent shopping season for stores. One Target store in North Carolina did not close and an employee counted 40 shoppers throughout the whole day. Retailers are hoping to make up for the missed sales this week.

Looking for a retail job in this market is tough, but
it is not impossible. Like every job, you have to start looking
online to various job sites to see if any retail stores
are hiring. In my case, I did work at couple of retail office
stores and it wasn’t a work in the park. With today’s
retail economic woes, if you do decide to go into the retail
job sector , you might find some part time work, but if that’s
what you want, thats a step in the right direction.

More Retailers including Walmart, Walgreens and others
are marketing the H1N1 vaccine to lure more customers
into their stores. In return, they will play a bigger
role in the Healthcare system with the new Healthcare plan
being passed by Congress. Even tho most retailers don’t
make any profit off these shots, it does let the customers
come into the store and look around on what these retailers
have to offer.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Online deals are coming strong from all the websites and they will
only keep getting fierce for the holiday season. I have noticed
a lot of sites cutting down prices across the board and it will
continue to do the same as holiday season comes closer. Online
shopping will be a major part of business for a lot
retailers .CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Dicks sporting goods store is now
expanding to washington.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

.Bank of America is getting set to charge annual fee
of $29.00 for reward cards starting on Febuary.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Walmart is already a cheap place to shop. I have been to many Walmarts and
they have a gorilla buying power higher than anyone I have seen. And now
it seems like Walmart is about to trim down prices on most of its
products for aggresive sales pitch.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

A lot of retailers are aiming to update their retail sites online. And
Online retail business is booming, as more customers prefer easy
no hassle online shopping, retailers are going to be more
focused on online retail business.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Kohls new chairman is the current ceo and the president of kohls,
kevin mansell . He will take over for larry montgomery
who is retiring. With Kohls getting ready to open more stores,
Kohls outlook is real strong.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Lowe’s will enter the hardware market in australia which has seen
the house market gone up in 4 straight years.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.