Sentences with phrase «of holiday spending»

With plenty of holiday spending in your future, you could earn a huge signup bonus and more rewards for every dollar you spend.

An all inclusive holiday in the Canary Islands means all your food, drinks and on site entertainment is paid for in advance so you don't have to worry about keeping track of your holiday spending.

The same survey from the NPD Group, Inc. states that in 2013, consumers will be allocating 2 % more of their holiday spending to video gaming systems or video games, compared with last year.

You can earn cash back on purchases to alleviate the cost of holiday spending.

Take the opportunity to cash in your points for cash or gift cards to help cover some of your holiday spending.

In the rush to buy gifts for everyone on your holiday list, it can be easy to lose track of holiday spending until the credit card bills arrive.

One savvy step to reducing the impact of your holiday spending is to choose the best type of credit card (or perhaps combination of cards) to take with you this Black Friday and beyond.

You have the power to take control of holiday spending and safe personal Christmas loans can help.

By seeing if you qualify for a 0 % introductory credit card, you could put off the full amount of your holiday spending for a significant amount of time, giving you a breather for budgeting and saving money while not missing out on the holiday shopping season.

The figure below shows that they do — student learning rises more or less in lock - step with the amount of holiday spending, a causal effect that is statistically significant at the 1 % level.

(As an aside, it was because of my holiday spending last year that I decided to sign up for LearnVest to help keep my budget in check — you can read about my experience with the program here.)

Price is the primary driver of holiday spending choices for 87 percent of consumers, while 73 percent say that sales / discounts are an important factor.

Critics said that by starting Black Friday early, the chains robbed employees of a holiday spent with family.

This recipe comes straight from my Italian roots and it brings back memories of holidays spent in Sicily.

Breathe in the scent of tropical flowers and the warm ocean breeze from your balcony, making the most of your holiday spent at our distinctive Nusa Dua five - star hotel.

If you have a card with a calendar year spending bonus and you are getting close to hitting the spending requirement, you may want to consider putting all of you holiday spend on that card to push you over the finish line.

Not exact matches

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

As holiday rituals go, it's a strange one: you get up at the crack of dawn to fight your way through crushing crowds (and often terrible weather), only to spend a day surrounded by utter pandemonium.

The strength of Hasbro's results contradict a narrative that has formed in the retail sector in which many executives have lamented that spending during the holiday season has focused on two periods of time: the Thanksgiving / Black Friday holiday weekend and the final week before Christmas.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

Walmart, which is planning to spend $ 2 billion to strengthen its e-commerce operations in the next two years, invested heavily in improving its shopping app ahead of the current holiday season.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

Internet spending during the November - December holiday season in the U.S. is projected to reach about $ 107 billion this year, more than 11 percent of total holiday retail sales — the largest portion ever, according to EMarketer Inc..

According to Accenture, 40 percent of Americans plan to spend more on holiday shopping this year compared to last year, both in stores and online via computers and mobile devices, so it's your job to earn their attention and dollar.

During the holidays, your customers are as primed to spend as they'll ever be, with retailers reaping up to 40 percent of their annual sales from November through December, according to the National Retail Federation.

Severe weather has slammed parts of the country, forcing some travelers to spend more holiday time in airports than planned.

The Fourth of July is the country's top beer - drinking holiday with more than $ 1 billion spent on cold brews last year alone — more than the cost of burgers and hot dogs combined.

The holidays are supposed to be a joyous time of gratitude and spending time with loved ones.

We go out of our way to hire generous, funny, well - rounded, and diverse people, and they did an amazing job with their holiday spending (which we dropped on them pretty suddenly as the Black Friday promotion started blowing up),» Temkin says.

Further, half of the survey's 2,000 respondents say that they expect holiday shoppers to spend less because of the U.S. government shutdown earlier this fall, which put a damper on consumer sentiment.

It's the holiday season, which means a lot of people are spending more time than usual in toy stories.

On average, holiday shoppers will spend a total $ 1,440 across all categories, an increase of 12.5 percent compared to 2014.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

Amazon may also be facing an increased sales burden from Main Street retail competitors lasting throughout the entire holiday shopping season, with almost half of Amazon Prime members saying they'll spend more than 50 percent of their holiday shopping dollars at small businesses, either online or in - store.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

«During the holiday, wallets are more open, so of course they're more likely to spend money.

CNBC surveyed 800 adults to get their views on the state of the U.S. economy, the Trump presidency, plans for holiday spending, and more.

And those little treats could help boost overall spending this holiday season, despite the headwinds of an uncertain economy and high unemployment.

«We think that Black Friday has gotten out of hand and so we are choosing to invest in helping people get outside with loved ones this holiday season, over spending it in the aisles.

Console games may yet get a boost from the holiday spending and purchases of the new Kinect and PlayStation Move systems, but Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter predicts unit sales of disc - based videogames will be down 5 % or so this year (see chart).

FORTUNE — U.S. and UK taxpayers looking to spend some extra dollars on behalf of corporations during the holidays (and into next year) will be pleased to know that Hewlett - Packard's bungled acquisition of software firm Autonomy has made that possible.

With only the two upper quintiles of American households seeing any kind of meaningful income growth, and the bottom three quintiles still feeling the lingering effects of the recession, the holiday spending landscape has likely become bifurcated.

The seven largest US luxury brands collectively spent $ 133 million last year on holiday ad spending, 57 % of which was allocated to magazine ads, according to the Shullman Research Center.

In a bright spot for China's cooling economy, online shoppers spent billions of dollars Friday on «Singles Day,» a quirky holiday that has grown into the world's busiest day for e-commerce.

Nordstrom is among a list of retailers, including Macy's, J.C. Penney and Kohl's, which reported strong sales this holiday season, boosted by increased spending and greater consumer confidence.

After all, the holidays are about expressing love and gratitude, not about spending piles of money on presents.

According to the bank's 2012 Holiday Travel Outlook released Thursday, some 60 per cent of Canadians plan to travel over the holidays, spending an average of $ 563 apiece on their trips.

The groundwork is in place: over the holidays, analysts predict that spending will hit an all - time high, which means it's simply a matter of standing out.