Tag: shopping

A little over a century ago, a group of women, plus one former US president, declared they were through with the overly commercial side of Christmas.

A lot of people are out shopping today, so we'll look at the history of the unsung hero of all that fast and furious commerce.

People like to collect all kinds of things, but Mark Davis had a collection that even he thought was a little unusual: cassettes containing the music and announcements that K-Mart stores used to play over their speaker systems, complete with announcements from "KMRT - K-Mart Radio."

Shopping carts are all due to a guy in Oklahoma who, on this day in 1937, decided to take the shopping basket and give it wheels.

This year’s big growth industry: buying stuff online while you’re hammered.

Someone had fun messing with the displays at Target today.