Maine retailers are staffing up, stocking up and decking out their showrooms with holiday cheer to prepare for the heavily hyped Black Friday, but the actual busiest shopping day of the season likely won’t come until a month later. Of course, that will depend on various factors including the always unpredictable Maine winter weather and […]
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Thousands line up for Black Friday in Auburn
AUBURN — Temps were low, lines were long and Carolee Taylor was in it to win it. First in line at Walmart for the 11th year in a row and there since 11 a.m., the Lisbon woman was armed with shopping lists for herself, her brother and her mother, an elderly man she cleans house […]
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Expert: Keep your card balance below 30% of limit
Here’s a credit score tip from David Leach of the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection: Never let the balance on any of your credit cards exceed 30 percent of the limit. Preferably, keep it lower than 30 percent. If your card limit is $6,000, when your balance gets to $2,000 or higher, that […]
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Black Friday: Shop like a banker
AUGUSTA — David Leach, a consumer credit protection expert, wants people to enjoy Black Friday and Christmas shopping this season, but he’s urging Mainers to track what they spend like a banker. And, he adds, watch how much you spend with credit cards. Use cash instead of credit; people who buy with cash spend less. […]
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Video: Black Friday! It’s 12:01 a.m., it’s Auburn and it’s on!
AUBURN — There’s being first in line at Wal-Mart on Black Friday, fronting a line so long it took more than nine minutes to surge through the door at midnight. Then there’s being at the head of that line for 10 years in a row. And for that, you’ve got to be Carolee Taylor. She […]
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Correction: Kmart opens at 12:01 a.m. Friday
AUBURN — A story published Wednesday on Page A1 should have said the Auburn Kmart will open at 12:01 a.m. Friday for Black Friday. The information was incorrectly reported by the Sun Journal.
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Signs point to green for Black Friday
Die-hard shoppers, get a good nap in after Thanksgiving dinner — you’re going to need it. Major retailers have set their Black Friday sales clocks to midnight — or a minute after — on Friday. That’s when Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Kohl’s, JCPenney and Kmart are opening in Auburn. “It’s a family and friends thing,” said […]
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Black Friday shoppers in good moods scoring deals
View Survey AUBURN — One might think that sleep deprivation on Black Friday would make for cranky people. But local shoppers and store workers seemed to be in festive moods. With visions of savings dancing in their heads, people took advantage of time-limited deals including 50 percent or more discounts. Black Friday online shopping, multiple […]
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Online sales surge on Thanksgiving day
View Survey U.S. e-commerce sales surged on Thanksgiving, raising questions about how many shoppers will show up for brick-and-mortar promotions on Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday season. By 5 p.m. in New York on Thursday, $1.1 billion was spent online, according to Adobe Systems Inc. The full day was expected to total […]
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Happy Black Friday! Get any deals?
Friday, 12 p.m.: Shopping amid protests in Chicago A protest got underway in Chicago’s shopping district, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the middle of a crowd shouting: “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!” The march comes after the release of a video earlier in the week showing the fatal […]