Sentences with phrase «over year this holiday»

Over the years my holiday routine has changed, but one thing remains the same: I still love Black Friday shopping!

Amazon Fire TV sales are up more than 6x year over year this holiday shopping weekend.

Not exact matches

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.

«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

It was a 275 % increase over the previous year's holiday quarter, and more than the company had posted in most full years.

In little over a year, this toy went from a Kickstarter project to a major hit this holiday season.

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.

Comparing state - by - state flight searches for travel over the end - of - summer holiday to last year's Labor Day searches, Kayak's data crunchers found that online searchers in Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee have been checking out vacations in the U.K. — now more affordable thanks to a deep swoon in the British pound.

USPS will delivery packages every day, including Sundays, beginning Nov. 17 through Christmas Day and is expecting the number of packages it handles to range between 450 million and 470 million packages, up 12 % over last year's holiday season..

A mistake this time of year could have you cleaning up your reputation long after the holidays are over.

Salary plus bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the year, and free snack bar during year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.

Although sales were reportedly down considerably over the first three months of the year, that might make sense considering Apple's fiscal first quarter includes the busy holiday shopping season.

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

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.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

To make sure you're still able to pay yourself first over the more expensive holiday season, it's important to prepare for these expenses throughout the year.

From staging a Nick Jonas concert at Lord & Taylor to launching fireworks over Fifth Avenue at Bergdorf Goodman, New York City's iconic department stores went far beyond the typical ceremonial curtain drop to reveal their holiday windows this year.

But department stores aren't just competing with one another: They have the challenge of competing with online retailers. Shop.org forecasts that online holiday sales this year will climb 11 percent over last season's, to $ 105 billion.

According to NRF's Thanksgiving Weekend Spending Survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, 55.1 percent of holiday shoppers were or will be in stores and online over Thanksgiving weekend, down from 58.7 percent last year.

Here at the National Retail Federation, we are forecasting that holiday retail sales will grow 3.6 percent this year over last year.

While holiday sales rose 4 % this past Christmas, according to the National Retail Federation, even beating their estimates of 3.6 % growth, online sales surged almost 13 % year over year.

Following Christmas and New Year holidays we have seen a new bout of dollar weakness across the board which may not be over yet based on recent price developments.

Americans returned $ 267.3 billion worth of goods last year, an industry report found, and the share of sold goods that are returned to stores ticks up over 10 percent during the holidays.

But better products and inventory management, two of retailers» most talked - about tools for keeping prices high over the holidays, have to compete with buyers» memories of years of price cuts of 50 percent or more.

Just as the Chinese National Day «golden week» holiday came to an end, over 40,000 industry leaders, technology professionals and developers from 58 countries have descended on Hangzhou for what will be the conference of the year for many.

More recently, the president tweeted his thoughts on gas prices, which he pointed out were «the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years» for the July Fourth holiday.

Two and a half years in the making — we look forward to busy reading over the holiday period.

It doesn't help that Amazon's huge logistics investments over the last few years mean it can flex its muscles the most during the holiday with its arsenal of express shipping capabilities when customers are often looking for last - minute gifts.

Domestic holiday travel and accommodation prices also fell significantly in the quarter, partly due to seasonal factors, and increased only moderately over the year.

In general, I look at year - over-year performance instead of month over month to account for the varying number of days per month (e.g., it's easy for March numbers to surpass February's because March has two or three more days) and seasonality (e.g., our numbers always dip over the December holidays).

Our group hasn't had formal meetings for a little over a year to give me a chance to regroup, so we're reduced to a handful of people, but we still get together for birthdays and holidays and whatever else.

Let's be honest, with the drinking the brawling over stuff in the stores, this holiday is more like the pagan one that the christians stole from them how many thousand years ago.

Though the commerce - exhausted secular holiday is past for another year, on December 28 Christmas is far from over.

Consumer tracking agencies have reported holiday sales in 2012 were the weakest in four years, with many factors likely contributing: poor weather, fresh grief over the Newtown shootings and even...

Willing to celebrate and embrace a holiday that was stolen by the Catholics, from the Pagans, a ritual that has trickled on down to the Protestants over the last 300 years, which has more to do with ancient s - ex worship than with anything else!

4.1 % — Expected amount of increased holiday sales in the United States in 2012 over last year, according to the National Retail Federation.

The only reason you celebrate a winter holiday in the present, at all, is because Christians have kept it going for over two thousand years.

Has your approach to the holiday changed over the years - perhaps after leaving home, having kids, or moving to a new neighborhood?

Thank you again for covering everything that we do miss (although as part French I do miss a good runny camembert, so I had to indulge a bit over the holiday so as to forget about it for the rest of the year... or till summer hols; — RRB -.

After quite a bit of trial, error and substitution over the years, I've come up with this brine recipe that has been my go - to recipe for many holiday meals.

This time of year, with the holidays just over the horizon, it's easy to get caught up in planning for all the special dinners and get - togethers that populate our calendars now through the beginning of next year.

Instead of the usual Foodie Favorites today, I thought we'd mix it up with a seasonally appropriate round - up of my favorite treats for holiday baking and gifting that I've featured here on this here blog over the past few years.

It's a recipe I found from an old issue of Taste of Home magazine, and I know it doesn't do you that much good now that the «gingerbread» holiday is over, but you can save this gingerbread cookies recipe to try next year.

Over the last five years my opportunity to cook for a crowd for a holiday meal has dwindled.

Thankfully I've put together over a dozen of my tried - and - true family feast recipes that are suitable for any time of year, but will come in handy especially right around the holidays.

Well, the holidays are over, and it's time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions and healthier eating.

This tart, adapted from a recipe by Deb over at Smitten Kitchen, became an important part of our family's holiday repertoire when my sister - in - law brought it a few years ago for Thanksgiving.