Early holiday shopping? Use these tips
By LINDA FLOREA
Photo by flickr member : infomatique
The Orlando Sentinel
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Halloween’s over, so it’s time to map out your holiday shopping strategy. Here is a look at what early shoppers should consider.
You can either buy today or take a gamble and wait for a sale. Tod Marks, a senior editor at Consumer Reports, says consumers should consider buying clothing early in the shopping season while there are plenty of sizes and colors.
But waiting to buy electronics might pay off because if sales of items such as flat-screen TVs are slow, retailers may cut prices closer to the holidays to clear out inventory.
A word of warning, however: The credit crunch has hit retailers, too, so they are stocking smaller inventories to avoid unloading unsold items at clearance prices after the holidays.
What’s there today may be gone tomorrow. Do you feel lucky?
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