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Online retailers overwhelmed by orders this year
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‘Grinch Bots’ are trying to hijack the hot toys
Parents everywhere are looking for hot holiday toys — especially online. Unfortunately, so are computerized “Grinch Bots”, which buy up huge amounts of the popular toys so they can be resold by scalpers at 3rd party websites with greatly marked-up prices. “Grinch Bots” are able to search websites and grab the toys faster than consumers. It is …
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Scammers spoof USAA financial institution
CARLSBAD, California — A California says it lost thousands in a bank scam that started with a notice about fraudulent debit charges. Krystal, who did not want to share her last name, lives in Carlsbad with her husband and their dog, Otis. Her husband is in the Marines and was recently in dive school in …
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Kitchen gifts you may want to skip
Next to electronics, kitchen gadgets will be the hottest items this holiday season. As they were last year, Instant Pot is still a popular gift this holiday season. High-tech pressure cookers and low-tech slow cookers fit a need, and would be welcome in most kitchens this holiday season. But there are some kitchen gadgets most people really …
Find deals on flights, travel right now
There are several travel deals for the holiday shopping season: Now’s the time to take advantage of those. TRACK THE DEALS: You can go to flight-tracking websites or apps like Kayak or Hopper. Let’s focus on Hopper. You put in your preferences for destinations, month of travel and more. Then, use the “Flex Watch” feature. …
Retailers rejoice: Shopping records broken
It’s official: Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still shopping bonanzas for retailers. Mastercard estimated sales on Black Friday hit $23 billion, surging 9 percent from last year. Cyber Monday may have seen as much as a 19 percent increase from last year, Adobe Analytics predicted. (The final numbers are not yet out.) Although it …
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Amazon Flex driver tosses holiday gift
You may have seen doorbell camera videos of sloppy deliveries, deliverymen opening up packages, and those holiday season porch thieves stealing holiday deliveries. But this one really sets new ground. Christa Thomas never thought she’d be one of those unlucky homeowners, with a bad delivery experience, until now. Driver tossed package like newspaper Her security …
These are the 2018 holiday shipping deadlines
With holiday shopping in full swing you may be thinking about shipping gifts to loved ones who live in another state. Companies such as UPS and FexEx as well as the United States Postal Service (we mean, Santa…) all have deadlines for sending packages to ensure they make it to their destinations before Christmas. Check …
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Companies rank customers with secret scores
On this Cyber Monday, plenty of online retailers are happy to take your money, but how will they treat you once the holiday season is over? The Wall Street Journal uncovered how companies use a secret scoring system to rank customers, and determine what kind of promotions to offer them, and even what level of …
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Heck no! Stores that won’t open Thanksgiving Day
Are you planning to go shopping Thanksgiving night? Many shoppers this year are saying “no,” and a growing number of stores are listening. You may remember the days, in the ’90s and early 2000s, when Black Friday was actually on Friday. It was originally designated, back in the 1970s, for “Day after Thanksgiving sales.” Between 2008 …
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