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RESTON, Va., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $10.41 billion has been spent online, marking a 4-percent decline versus the corresponding days last year, while Black Friday saw $534 million in online spending, up 1 percent. For the combination of...

TORONTO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ - It's fair to say that Canadians don't "TAILGATE" like Americans do - when we think of the word "TAILGATE" we think of bad drivers, while Americans think PARTY and SPORTS. FUN, FOOD and FOOTBALL are one of the best parts of being an American sports fan. With the BIG game between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins happening today, we've invited Buffalo-born, Chef Andrew Engle to Toronto to demonstrate for Canadians how American-style TAILGATE cooking is...

RESTON, Va., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 31 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.03 billion has been spent online, marking a 2 percent decline versus the corresponding days last year. However, Cyber Monday saw $846 million in online spending, up 15 percent. The four-day period...

A sluggish economy had big name retailers counting on "Cyber Monday's" virtual crowds to make up for slow sales the rest of the year. Many stores saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed so they stepped up online promotions to keep consumers shopping.Yet, experts were doubtful that the day would give much life to what is still expected to be one of the weakest holiday seasons in years."People are expecting that deals will only get better as we approach the...

Residents in Florida, Texas and Virginia are among the groups saying their state was the site of the first true Thanksgiving feast. While the traditional U.S. belief regarding the historical pilgrim meal places it in Plymouth, Mass., residents of places such as Charles City, Va., beg to disagree, the Cleveland Plain Dealer said Thursday. We know that we're the first official Thanksgiving, Tammy Radcliff, the office manager of Charles City's Berkeley Plantation, said. We know, yes we do....

The Detroit Lions, who first played football on Thanksgiving Day in 1934, will do so again Thursday in hopes of winning for the first time this season. Detroit has lost 12 consecutive games dating back to the final week of the 2007 season and the Lions have dropped 18 out of 19 in a skid that began prior to Thanksgiving last year. The Lions will host the Tennessee Titans in the first of the three holiday NFL matchups. Tennessee is coming off its first setback of the year. Thursday's games...

United Airlines says it will help the turkey that dodges Thanksgiving dinner at the White House make its getaway to Disneyland this week. The airline will strap the lucky bird into a first-class seat Wednesday for a non-stop flight from Washington to LAX where it will be whisked to Orange County and a date as grand marshal of the annual Thanksgiving parade at Disneyland. President Bush is set to issue the traditional Thanksgiving pardon Wednesday, freeing the bird and a companion for the...

The worst day for car crashes in Alabama was the day before Thanksgiving, three times greater than on Thanksgiving itself, a University of Alabama study found. The study, looking at 2007 statistics, said two factors likely contributed to the 585 Alabama crashes the day before Thanksgiving, compared with the 196 on the holiday itself. First, fewer people took off from work earlier in the week, so the roads were more crowded. Significantly fewer crashes were reported Monday and Tuesday of...

Regular participants in an Our Lady of Guadalupe festival in Albuquerque say city officials have banned all homemade food from the annual event. St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church parishioners said city officials said homemade cultural dishes such as posole and menudo could only be served at the Dec. 14 event if they came premade, the Albuquerque Journal said Wednesday. To parish life coordinator, Sister Bernice Garcia, using canned items to create the traditional dishes is simply wrong....

The world's second-largest hamburger chain, Burger King, said on Wednesday that it will limit sodium in its "Kids Meals".Burger King is the first fast food restaurant to take this step.The company, based in Miami, said it will limit sodium to 600 milligrams or less in all its Kids Meals."We are proud to be the first quick-service restaurant to publicly commit to limiting sodium in Kids Meals," Burger King Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chidsey said in a...