Holiday shopping held steady through the weekend after retailers saw a huge crowd of bargain shoppers buying discounted flat-panel TVs and fleece jackets on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving Day shopping spree. ...more

December 1, 2009

Black Friday kicked off holiday shopping with a bang across the Bay area as retailers bent over backward to help shoppers navigate deals (even while they stood in line) and small stores emulated the big boys by opening even earlier. ...more

November 28, 2009

Lisa Westerman got her first taste of Black Friday 2009 shortly after midnight. That's when she got to Toys R Us at The Grove at Wesley Chapel shopping center. ...more

November 28, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009 has come and gone and so has Black Friday. Now the question is whether the nation's retailers will be blue this holiday season. ...more

November 28, 2009

Area stores open early for bargain seekers. ...more

November 27, 2009

The flocks of eager shoppers flooding through the front doors before the crack of dawn is a sight best suited for the big box stores. ...more

November 27, 2009

Daytime temperatures hovered around 60 today, but it will be much cooler for the tree lighters and carolers ushering in the holiday season tonight. ...more

November 27, 2009

Black Friday started with a bang across the Bay area as retailers reached out to pre-dawn shoppers, helping them navigate deals even while they stood in line and taking their cue from big-box stores and mall anchors to open earlier than ever. ...more

November 27, 2009

The bargain hunters were out early this morning in Brandon hoping to save on everything from TVs to vacuums. ...more

November 27, 2009

Millions, including the minions fawning over the popular, blood-sucking Dracula, may lift their "Cross-equivalent," perhaps one of the vampire's long, sharp teeth, against the politically incorrect, "right wing" thoughts bared here. ...more

November 27, 2009