Stocking Stuffers Steal Holiday Gift Spotlight

(TheStreet) -- Looking for your big gift on Christmas morning, but nothing's under the tree? Check the stocking. As big-ticket items get smaller and small-item holiday spending swells like overstuffed hosiery, the stocking has gone from secondary item hung by the chimney with care to center stage on Christmas morning. With ComScoreSCOR putting overall holiday spending at $28.4 billion, or 12% more than the same time last year, the stocking once reserved for candy canes and gag gifts could be hanging much heavier with pint-sized presents from AppleAAPL, AmazonAMZN, Barnes & NobleBKS and StarbucksSBUX and others this year. Continue reading the article.