Posts tagged: holiday season

All I Want For Christmas…

Well, it seems that the holiday season is in full swing. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but the sounds of the holidays are around us everywhere in television ads, Internet gimmicks (”Have you elf’d yourself yet?”) and if you’re a Gleek like me, you soaked up every minute of this week’s holiday-themed episode. One of my favorite Christmas songs from my youth was “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.” Well, with three weeks of open-ended responses in from our KIDS tracker, I can tell you that “teeth” is one of the few things that has yet to show up even once on kids’ wish list items.

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categories Toys | Anita Frazier, Entertainment Industry Analyst Toys & Video Games | datetime December 14, 2010 12:20 pm | comments Comments (1)

Don’t Kick The Holiday To The Curb!!

I once again have completed  my annual Black Friday store observation trip throughout Northern Virginia. Usually I can walk away and say either this is going to be a good holiday season, or a bad one, but this year I have mixed emotions based on what I observed. Many were looking for Black Friday to give us a glimpse into the future of the holiday season and an indicator of where the U.S. economy is heading.

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categories Consumer Technology | Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis | datetime November 28, 2009 5:56 pm | comments Comments (1)