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Pick up some spice
Date: 2/26/2009
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
It says a lot about my stage of life that I'd personally rather start this column talking about the upcoming children's consignment sales than the racy new upscale lingerie store in West Little Rock.
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Deals at Circuit City
Date: 1/29/2009
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
I don't know how long Circuit City's creditors have given them to liquidate their assets and pay off what they can, but they don't seem to be in too much of a hurry.
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Out with the old
Date: 1/15/2009
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
So it's January, the Sunday ads are full of shelving systems and plastic bins, and you've got a pile of Christmas presents/post-Christmas clearance purchases you need to make room for in your closet.
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No more 'new' stuff
Date: 12/18/2008
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
Although the madhouse that is the Target toy department argues otherwise, this Christmas seems determined to be known as The One Where Everybody Cut Back.
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Don't believe everything you read
Date: 12/4/2008
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
I've gotten two versions of it, so I'm assuming a lot of you have seen it too: An e-mail warning readers not to buy gift cards, or much of anything else, at a long list of national chain retailers that are supposedly closing a number of stores or going out of business altogether.
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Get a jump on sales
Date: 11/20/2008
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
If you've ever felt torn between watching football on Thanksgiving and poring over the 5-inch thick stack of ads that come in that day's newspaper, well, feel torn no longer.
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Home for the holidays
Date: 11/6/2008
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
With rumors still flying around about a new Cupid's opening in my neighborhood, I could not have been more relieved last week to see a rather understated, definitely non-neon sign go up in front of a previously vacant storefront at JFK Boulevard and B Street.
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Boooooo
Date: 10/23/2008
By:
Jennifer Barnett Reed
It's still a whole week before Oct. 31, but walk into Hobby Lobby or Target or Kroger and you can almost see the boxes of ornaments and strings of lights standing there with their arms crossed, tapping their feet and glancing not-so-subtly at their watches, impatient to take over all that primo shelf space the Halloween candy's been occupying for the last two months.
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