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Happy Black Friday!
Now that Black Friday is finally here, here are some of our BF-inspired posts to help you prepare for the biggest shopping day of the year!
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How Do You Prefer to Holiday Shop?
While perusing the news, I noticed two seemingly conflicting stories right beside each other on the same site. The headlines: "Online Retail Thriving This Holiday Season" and "A Site to Help People Shop Online Attracts Investors."
The two articles aren't actually contradictory, the first is a welcome optimistic look at the future of e-commerce with Forrester Research reporting that most online retailers turned a profit in 2008 as business continues to grow.
Website of the Day: Gazaro
Holiday shopping. Jut typing the words gives me some serious anxiety, so any site that helps make my life a little bit easier is a good site in my book. If you're in the market for electronics or accessories, you'll like Gazaro, a site that monitors sales fliers and store websites, alerting you when an item you're looking for goes on sale.
Access Store Coupons on Your iPhone With the Yowza App
With the holidays right around the corner, I'm not only starting to think about shopping, but I'm also thinking of creative ways to save. Yesterday, I told you about ten websites that will help you save some money on gifts, and today it's all about Yowza!!, an iPhone and iPod Touch app that will show you all of the store coupons within a mile or as far as 15 miles from where you are shopping (which makes sense why it has two exclamations after its name!).
Once you download this free app, open it and you will see all of the coupons applicable to your location, or you can type in a store name to see what's available.
eBay to Open an Interactive Pop-Up Holiday Store in NYC
On Nov. 20, eBay will be opening a 5,500 square-foot, fun interactive pop-up store on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York where customers can shop the entire eBay Marketplace via Internet kiosks, handheld tablets and the eBay iPhone app. And on Black Friday, there will be a limited quantity of daily deal products which will be awarded to the first 100 shoppers who visit the store — get em' while they're hot!
Website of the Day: Measy
I have an issue when purchasing new gadgets: I seem to know what I want (I need a digital camera that takes awesome close-up photos but also works well in low light), but I'm not positive exactly which make or model is the best choice.
And while I appreciate the product reviews on some of my favorite sites, I don't feel like exhaustively reading them before I make a decision. So, I'm excited about Measy, a new site that aggregates product information, reviews, photos, and shopping information to help you make the best decision via a fun quiz.
You Can Now Buy Computers From Microsoft's Online Store
Microsoft has had quite the week to say the least! The company not only launched its latest operating system — Windows 7 — but it also opened a new retail store in Arizona. And starting today, you can now go to Microsoft's website and buy a Windows PC directly from its website.
Geek Tip: Customize Your Kicks Online
I love a good set of online tools on a website, especially when it's coupled with another one of my favorite things: shopping. I'm especially loving the instant gratification of the design-your-own sneakers tools from some favorite brand-name shoe companies: Nike, Puma, Converse, and Keds all offer a customization option for a few of their classic sneaker designs.
Though the tools vary by site, essentially you can click on different sections of the shoe: interior, left side, right side, details, laces — and choose a color or print for each section.
Shop Tommy Hilfiger on Your iPhone
I love shopping, I love my iPhone, and I love any application that makes it easier for me to shop on my iPhone. Tommy Hilfiger just released an iPhone app making it unbelievably easy to shop for men, women, and children's clothes, right from your phone.
My favorite part is how closely you can zoom into an item to check it out.
Gap's Style Mixer iPhone App Hooks You Up With Discounts
Why do you need another free app from a retailer?
Because Gap's Style Mixer app for the iPhone does more than just let you peruse and mix Gap pieces — the cool feature is that when you open the app near a Gap store, you unlock a special discount.
So, sure, you can mix and match styles and then add them to Facebook, but what you really want is the discount, right?
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