holiday shoppers

Holiday shoppers will need to bump up their budget for one purchase this year, and they can't even put it under the tree: gasoline.

Holiday shoppers are putting away their credit cards, the latest on the tax cuts and other consumer-focused items from Friday's Times.

Decried by many as impersonal, gift cards continue to lure last-minute holiday shoppers who are out of ideas or unable to find other things to buy.

Holiday shoppers are procrastinating this season more than they have in the past five years, and are looking for discounts as Christmas nears, according to a retail group's survey released Wednesday.