Today looks like it’s a day about all things chocolate. Verizon Wireless is releasing a new phone called the LG Chocolate that could give the iPod Nano some competition. It includes a music player, a 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth, a control wheel, and more in a sleek slider format with jet black paint and red…
January is traditionally a slow month for retail sales. Perhaps because the US economy is roaring back, because the East Coast weather was mild or because shoppers were redeeming gift cards to purchase clearance and Spring merchandise, many retailers got a sales boost last month. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp, Costco Wholesale Corp., Abercrombie &…
We’ve all heard stories of shopping for top notch clothing in Hong Kong with an endless variety of the world’s top labels. Well, they’re still true. You just have to know where to shop and “A Shopaholic’s Dream Day in Hong Kong”from CNN tells the tale best. It begins: “A whirlwind day of shopping in…
Birkenstock sandals are synonymous with comfort. The sandals have a long history, dating back two centuries. The quality of the shoes is outstanding, providing excellent quality and time-tested endurance. The sandals have evolved over time, but the product has maintained a strong following for many, many years. The Birkenstocks as we know them today were…
iTraveliShop just launched. It may be a competitor to Gridskipper.com. Its founders, Christina Valhouli and John Vipond, embarked on an industrious “Shop Around the World in 80 Days” with a route close to the one Phileas Fogg partook in the Jules Verne novel of a similar name. Read their adventures on their travel blog. [Via…
If you live in Northern Africa or the Middle East, you already know that you wouldn’t dare buy a Barbie doll for a little girl’s birthday, Christmas or other holiday celebration. You’d buy a Fulla — covered from head to toe in a traditional black robe — dressed like a proper Muslim woman. Now called…
Last year, I escaped the December holiday shopping chaos by flying to Europe. If you’d like to follow my lead, check out the Christmas Shopping Package at the highly-rated Hotel Principe de Savoia in Milan, Italy.
Today, fashion history is being made in San Francisco. H&M is opening two stores in the uber stylish Union Square shopping area, featuring designers like Stella McCartney: a flagship, 35,000-square-foot store at 150 Powell Street (along the Cable Car line) and one a few blocks at 150 Post Street that’s got 10,000 square feet of…
Shopping is a part of travel whether you are buying CDs, a souvenir T-shirt or you forgot your toothbrush. But many times you never know where the best shopping is to be had, so you rely on the not always good advice of natives. Now Lucky, the magazine for shopping, offers guides to the best…
From the souvenir stands in the piazza San Marco to the high end designers off to the west of the square on Calle larga XXII Marzo, Venice has a myriad of shopping options. But for the avid window shopper on place you don’t want to miss is the Fiorella Gallery in the Campo San Stefano.