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Toys for Tots May Get a $2 Million Boost
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 12:23pm | 333Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), Toys ‘R' Us, and others are teaming with LivingSocial to double your donations. See? I told you the daily deals site would do anything to get in the news. At least today's announcement is for a good cause and not simply another excuse to send out a press release. Starting...
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Ominous Thoughts for Christmas in July
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 5:29pm | 745I can recall fond memories of Christmas past unwrapping the latest CD by Coldplay or the Dave Matthews Band. And I can remember that great feeling I would get while opening a brand-new, pristine book and leafing through the pages on a snowy Christmas morning in front of a lit tree. But with the...
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Are Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart Nothing More Than Showrooms for Amazon?
Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 4:50pm | 1265It's not easy being a big box retailer. While Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), and Target (NYSE: TGT) once ruled the industry, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has quickly stolen the spotlight as the leading place to shop for just about everything. Brian Sozzi, an equity research analyst at Wall...
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Will Lawsuits Hurt GameStop's Share Price? (GME)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 4:09pm | 588Used game complaints and personal info recording have cast a dark shadow on the world's largest retailer of video games. But are they enough to hurt the company's share price? GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is no stranger to lawsuits. In 2006, a handful of store managers sued the company, claiming that...