AAA Mid-Atlantic projects more than 678,000 Marylanders will travel 50 miles or more during the Labor Day holiday weekend, up 2.7 percent from the 2012 holiday.

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I will... as long as I can get the rest of my to-do list completed.

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NEW YORK — If shoppers don’t show up in stores soon, more 70 percent off sale signs will. After a promising start to the holiday shopping season over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, sales have slowed as worries about weak U.S. ...

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NEW YORK — This Christmas travel season could be the busiest in six years, with AAA predicting that 93.3 million Americans will hit the road. That’s 1.6 percent more than last year and just 400,000 people shy of the 2006 ...

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As December approaches, small business owners across Baltimore are beefing up their inventories and preparing to woo holiday shoppers with unique products and personal service.

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Last Saturday, hundreds of small business owners in Maryland arrived at the shops where they earn their livelihoods — clothing boutiques, ice cream parlors, craft stores — to set up for the day. Then they waited.

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As Marylanders join millions of others nationwide in the computer shopping blitz that’s become known as Cyber Monday, they should think about this: If they paid the sales tax they owe to the state for such purchases, Maryland would be ...

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This year’s Black Friday shoppers were split into two distinct groups: those who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber and those who’d rather shop instead. Stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after ...

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The holiday season is no time to exclude others. But three years ago, that’s exactly what officials at a major credit card company saw happening — at least in the world of shopping.

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Thanksgiving has always been one my favorite holidays because it is a time of reflection.

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