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• Jobs data highlight voters' top concern
Rising unemployment and worries about the economy also have cut into consumer spending, which doesn’t bode well for the holiday shopping season.
• Canada’s top attractions
While we’ve included some sites that have strong commercial components, we’ve excluded standalone shopping malls and casinos. If we hadn't, Toronto’s Eaton Center, which claims one million visitors a week, would top our list.
• Worst nightmare: Babies stolen from their beds
More new babies are being kidnapped from public places — homes, parking lots and shopping malls — even as improved awareness and better security have cut the number of newborns snatched from the nation’s hospitals and health centers. That’s ...
• New eBay site has social, environmental aim
The goal is to help consumers align their social values with their shopping decisions, WorldofGood.com general manager Robert Chatwani said. Shoppers will be able to search for products by certain social or environmental categories, revealing, for ...
• SeaPort Airlines takes a new approach to Northwest travel
Starting with 16 (one-way) flights per day, the company recently expanded to 20 midweek and hopes to build off-peak and weekend business by promoting tax-free shopping in Portland and Mariners games in Seattle.