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The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Unhappy Holidays for Best Buy Holiday hiring takes a tumble.  |
Job Journal October 7, 2012 John A. Challenger |
Career Pros: Don't Delay Hunt for a Holiday Job If you're hoping to land a seasonal job for the holidays, the time to start your search is now!  |
Job Journal September 28, 2008 |
Chilly Forecast for Holiday Hiring Hiring for the holidays and winter season is about to begin. And while this year may see less job growth overall, solid opportunities will be available for those who get an early start. Here are some tips to help you make the most of the season.  |
Job Journal October 17, 2010 John Challenger |
Happy Holiday Hiring News for Jobseekers Retailers are getting ready to bring on seasonal staffers for their busiest time of year.  |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Grim Tidings for the Holidays? The next few months look downright dismal for retail.  |
Job Journal October 3, 2010 |
Jobwire Small Business Bill Could Create 500,000... Jobs Mixed Bag of Holiday Hiring... `Fairy Jobmother' Coming to America... Diligent, Faithful Worker Treated Like a Dog... On the Job Front... Hirings and Firings...  |
The Motley Fool December 13, 2010 Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
Shopping Spree: 2010's Top Performing Retail Stocks This year, stores are doing more hiring for the holidays than we've seen in quite some time.  |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 Lawrence A. Rothman |
Slow and Steady at J.C. Penney A calendar glitch made the back-to-school season look worse than it really was. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2007 Timothy M. Otte |
Holiday Shopping Trip Very few retailers will consider 2007 a banner year, but the next few shopping days will at least allow some companies to salvage something from what will be for most a dismal holiday shopping season.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Fool's Look Ahead Who's Reporting This Week?: Chinese employee-recruiting service 51job... Home Depot... Macy's... Kohl's... Wal-Mart... Starbucks... Ann Taylor...  |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Holiday Trouble Lurks on Layaway We've found one more sign of a potentially grim holiday season.  |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2011 Tierney Plumb |
Retail Looks Healthy Now, but Wait Till the Holidays The economy could push figures down.  |
Job Journal January 18, 2009 |
Jobwire Holiday Hiring Got Scrooged... On the Job Front... Hirings & Firings...  |
Job Journal November 7, 2004 |
Jobwire for the Week of November 7, 2004 Heavy hiring in October... Stem cell newest growth industry... Big demand for holiday help... Who's hiring and who's firing... etc.  |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2006 Mary Dalrymple |
Christmas Comes Early Keeping an eye on the bottom line when you venture out for holiday shopping might help keep each purchase in perspective. In the meantime, resist the urge to start celebrating Christmas before Halloween.  |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Retailers Ready for the Gift Card Redo Slack sales mean retailers are hoping gift cards bring holiday joy in January.  |
Job Journal October 1, 2006 Julia Hollister |
Holiday Hiring Starts Now Activity in the retail industry spikes during the holiday time and early-bird jobseekers can get a share of the lucrative Christmas pie.  |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Black Friday's Fade to Gray You don't need to get mauled at the mall anymore. Online storefronts are here to save the day.  |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Mercedes Cardona |
Holiday Hangover: Forget the Rising Sales Cheap shoppers will keep retailers' earnings marked down.  |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Rich Duprey |
How to Work Santa Silly for Fun and Profit Year-round Christmas sales spell trouble for Sears.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2011 Lipman & Esterhuizen |
Retailer Stocks: Sales Come in Worse Than Expected ... Again Retailers are surely hoping the October numbers do not serve as an indication of how the holiday sales will play out.  |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Louise Lee |
What's Roiling The Selling Season Retailers' tactics, like pushing gift cards, are changing the business for good.  |
Job Journal December 13, 2009 |
Jobwire Expect High Jobless Rate to Linger... Quarter of Workforce Could Become Temps... Holiday Hiring Increase Brings Joy... California has Green Thumb for Green Jobs... On the Job Front... Hirings and Firings...  |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Where the Toys "R" Is the ubiquitous toy retailer Toys "R" Us gearing up for its final goodbye? Folks buying the stock these days are more than happy to see a sale go through.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Christmas Joy? No, a Bloody Battle for Bucks Behind the scenes in the retail world, we have brutal competition with heavyweight contender Wal-Mart Stores out to utterly brutalize its rivals.  |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Busted Toy Sales Instead of holiday after-glow, slumping toy sales brought woe for KB Toys.  |
Job Journal September 22, 2013 |
Jobwire Silicon Valley boosts state's job growth... Minimum wage on the way up... Target will hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the holidays...  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
KB Toys Wipes Out The toy store chain is the latest retailer to succumb to the dismal economy.  |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Island of Lost Toy Retailers Toys "R" Us had a solid holiday season. Is publicizing a healthy holiday showing a trial balloon to see if it can whet the market's appetite as a publicly traded entity again? Maybe.  |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Digging Through Retail's Rubble Many retailers, including Wal-Mart, came up empty-handed during the holidays.  |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hot or Not? Edgy specialty retailer Hot Topic stumbles a week after we took the company to task for its sloppy June performance.  |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Not Playing Around Wal-Mart is set to start a major price war on hot toys, well ahead of the holiday season. The retailer is cutting prices on what it calls the "Top 12 Toys of Christmas" by 10% to 50%.  |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Gift Cards to the Rescue The holiday shopping season continues with prepaid plastic, which should provide a trickle of continuing income for reatialers.  |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2007 Timothy M. Otte |
Play the "Pot Odds" in Retail In past years there has always been the assumption that some retail companies, especially those best positioned going into the season, would do well, but how about this year? Is there enough upside to hold any retail stocks through these holidays?  |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Santa Skipping Wal-Mart? So the retailer's sales are down. There are plenty of other reasons for investors to be of good cheer.  |
Registered Rep. December 8, 2011 Jennifer Duell Popovec |
Cashing In In 2010 and so far this year, retail REITs have outperformed the whole REIT sector.  |
InternetNews December 30, 2010 |
Snowstorm Helps Ecommerce End Holidays Strong Web metrics firm comScore reports that online retailers posted record sales this year, offering cautious hope that the ecommerce sector is well on the road to recovery.  |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Retailers Drop a Black Friday Bomb Early results suggest consumers are slow to spend.  |
InternetNews December 22, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Online Shoppers Have Fewer Last Minutes With fewer days from Thanksgiving to Christmas, shortened holiday season sees total spending down from last year despite last-minute shopping surge.  |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Claire Stephanic |
Can Best Buy Beat Wal-Mart? Does Best Buy have a chance this holiday season, or will Wal-Mart once again stomp out the competition?  |
Job Journal September 30, 2007 |
Jobwire Humbug Holiday Hiring Forecast... Virtual Job Search Now the Norm... Win That Promotion... Workers Prefer Funny Bosses... Weight Loss Earns Dough... On the Job Front... Hirings & Firings...  |
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Good Tidings For Online Retailers in 2005 Online shopping is expected to increase this holiday season.  |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Where'd All the Money Go? Consumer spending shot up in March, but personal income failed to keep pace, suggesting that the irresistible force of American consumerism was about to hit the immovable object of an empty wallet.  |
Job Journal October 12, 2003 CJJ Staff |
Jobwire Califorinia payroll shinks... High-Tech hiring ticks up... etc.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2010 |
Slight Holiday Downtick for Consumer Electronics For the consumer electronics industry, this holiday season may fairly be described as "less bad" than last year, according to a recent market analysis from NPD Group.  |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Lawrence Rothman |
Not Another Sale at Kohl's! More excuses from the retailer. Apparently, Memorial Day was early this year and May sales counted. Investors, take note.  |
Job Journal November 18, 2007 |
Jobwire California Payrolls Shrink... Holiday Jobs on Layaway... On the Job Front... Hirings & Firings...  |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Toy Sale on the Horizon? Speculation persists about the future of Toys "R" Us.  |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 LouAnn Lofton |
Wal-Mart's Holiday Worries Gloomy news from the world's largest retailer casts another shadow over the prospects for a prosperous holiday season for U.S. retailers.  |
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Nanette Byrnes |
Playing The Discount Game Stores offering deep sales after Thanksgiving did well. But will promotions translate into profits? The biggest shopping days of 2004 are yet to come, leaving lots of hunting and gathering to be done before it becomes clear who this holiday's winners and losers will be.  |