People in wheelchairs chain themselves together in protest over welfare proposals, blocking traffic in one of London’s busiest shopping areas.

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Disability protest over welfare

The man suspected of slashing young women’s buttocks as they shopped at Fairfax County shopping malls last year has been arrested in Peru, police said Saturday. Authorities said they did not have any details of the arrest but confirmed that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, 40, was in custody in Peru and that police were “just starting the process of working with federal and international authorities to return him back to Fairfax County,” said Officer Shelley Broderick, a Fairfax County police spokeswoman, in a statement. Read full article > >

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Shopping centres across Scotland report a last-minute rush as the public complete their Christmas purchases.

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Shops report late Christmas rush

Friday is set to be the busiest shopping day on record as consumers rush to buy last minute presents and food, credit card firm Visa predicts.

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New shopping ‘record’ predicted

Your free time this upcoming weekend may be consumed by the holidays, but it is still a weekend after all. Hurry up and finish your shopping, light your menorah or tree, wrap your presents and head out to the best events this weekend, a list of which we have compiled for you . Check out a few highlights here. Read full article > >

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UK shoppers will spend just over £1.5m a minute in total on what is expected to be the busiest High Street shopping day of the year, research suggests.

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UK shoppers are embracing technology at a faster pace than those in many other countries, according to a survey of global shopping habits by audit firm KPMG.

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UK shoppers ‘embrace technology’

Dunfermline ranks as Scotland’s number one online Christmas shopping “hotspot”, according to the Royal Mail.

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Online shopping ‘hotspot’ in Fife

Some High Street names and online businesses have come up with new ways to make shopping easier for their customers.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about possessions lately, as the now-inevitable reports of violence inflicted by Black Friday shoppers on one another during the struggle for discounted Xboxes and television sets has coincided in my life with the depressing and exhausting task of cleaning out my mother’s apartment after her death at age 90. Read full article > >

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Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the morality of money

It may be Tuesday, but retailers are milking every bit of excitement they can from Cyber Monday by continuing to offer deep discounts throughout the week. Amazon, Wal-Mart and others are putting up a week of Cyber Monday-like deals on their Web sites, stretching the shopping frenzy that started on Thanksgiving over an even longer period. The stores are adding more deals to their sites as the week progresses in an effort to lure customers back to their sites repeatedly throughout the day. Read full article > >

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Cyber Monday continues as sales figures roll in

As the days shorten toward winter, sniffles and sore throats return. Noses start dripping, and all too soon you’ve got aches and pains, fever and malaise. And so do your kids, or your colleagues, or your friends. This is the onset of cold and flu season, when germs travel easily from person to person as we spend more time close together indoors. And everything can be a good breeding ground for germs: computer keyboards, the knob on the door into your office, the telephone you use, the subway seat where someone coughs behind you, the escalator railing, the shopping cart handle. Read full article > >

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As cold and flu season begins, you can guard against germs and infected people

As the days shorten toward winter, sniffles and sore throats return. Noses start dripping, and all too soon you’ve got aches and pains, fever and malaise. And so do your kids, or your colleagues, or your friends. This is the onset of cold and flu season, when germs travel easily from person to person as we spend more time close together indoors. And everything can be a good breeding ground for germs: computer keyboards, the knob on the door into your office, the telephone you use, the subway seat where someone coughs behind you, the escalator railing, the shopping cart handle. Read full article > >

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As cold and flu season begins, you can guard against germs and infected people

It’s day two in America’s annual celebration of holiday consumerism: Cyber Monday , which will kill officeworkers’ productivity all day with deals from online retailers. But for a certain contingent of shoppers, Cyber Monday has one major pitfall: a lack of instant gratification, which is a major part of the Black Friday experience. The two shopping days have the same goal, and often the same products, but attract very different types of bargain-hunters: Which one are you? Read full article > >

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Are you Cyber Monday or Black Friday?

As retailers slash prices left and right, online shoppers have to be on the lookout for good deals and beware of deals that are too good to be true. Online shoppers prowling the Web for deals have to be extra careful on Cyber Monday, since scammers will take advantage of users who may not realize that the Web sites they visit may not be legitimate. Since advertisements promising deep discounts are the norm rather than the exception on the year’s biggest online shopping day, shoppers may be tempted to let their guard down and click pop-ups or banner ads promising unbelievable deals. Read full article > >

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Cyber Monday scams put shoppers on guard