Let your fingers do the shopping today with click-throughs to online deals promoted as Cyber Monday and Cyber Week specials.
Happy Cyber Monday! Here's a sampling of Cyber Monday, Cyber Week sales you might want to check out. What do you plan to buy online today? Share your shopping list and any great deals you find in comments below. Subscribe to Barrow Patch’s newsletters, follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Just when you've had time to recover from Black Friday, it's Cyber Monday, a day for shopping from the comfort of home. While avoiding crowds and getting great bargains is enjoyable, Cyber Monday can be full of hazards for shoppers who fail to take proper precautions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation offers several tips to make your Cyber Monday shopping experience safe and enjoyable: If you do end up as the victim of an online scam, you can file a complaint on the Internet Crime Complaint Center website. What do you plan to buy online today? Share your shopping list and any great deals you get in comments. Subscribe to Barrow Patch’s newsletters, follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.
Have you already started buying gifts? Where in Barrow County do you recommend shopping?
The Thanksgiving turkey has been carved with any leftovers stowed away inside fridges, and the holiday shopping season has officially begun. But according to a recent AAA Consumer Pulse Holiday Shopping survey, more than half of holiday shoppers, 51 percent, have already started buying gifts, compared to 46 percent this time last year. The majority of consumers, 62 percent, plan to spend the same amount of money on presents as last year, while 14 percent plan to spend more money, a 40 percent increase from 2011. More than half of holiday shoppers, 57 percent, plan to spend between $251 and $1,000 on gifts, while one in four, 23 percent, plan to spend up to $250, according to the survey. AAA predicts a 10 percent decline in the number of …
How do you do you do your shopping for Christmas gifts?
Every year there is an increased drive to get shoppers into stores. Black Friday now gets an early start on Thanksgiving Thursday, Buy Local campaigns push Small Business Saturday shopping and technology and social media sites encourage Cyber Monday logins. The message is clear - shop early and shop often. So what is your shopping style for the holidays? Will you be shopping off your Thanksgiving meal on Thursday or Friday, supporting the small businesses in your area on Saturday or is the computer your preferred shopping mall on Cyber Monday? There are, of course, the traditional procrastinators too. Are you one of those shoppers found at the local drug store just before closing time on Christmas Eve? Let us know how you expect to get …
The Better Business Bureau offers tips on how to avoid giving online hackers and scammers a shopping bonanza this Christmas shopping season.
If you didn’t get gifts for everybody on your list on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday, don’t despair, there’s always Cyber Monday. In fact, according to shopping experts, that has now become the most popular day to shop for the holidays — and why not? That way you get to avoid all the crowds. However, shopping online opens you up to scammers and hackers just waiting to take advantage of this latest trend. “The convenience and ease of shopping online has replaced the hassle of going to the store for many people—but online shopping has its own set of risks,” said Fred T. Elsberry Jr., president and CEO of the BBB serving Metro Atlanta, Athens and Northeast Georgia. “Taking steps to avoid the fraud online will result in a much happier…
John Henderson
4:29 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Actual Krogers closes at 6pm on Christmas Eve. Mr.B will have to do his shopping QT or Waffle House now has Gift Certificates. more ›