As part of a competition to find Camarillo's Mother of the Year, merchants at Las Posas Plaza read through thousands of entries from schoolchildren in the city who all thought their moms were the best. One entry from third-grader Jacob Kuettel stood out

While most consumers don’t start holiday shopping in earnest until the day after Thanksgiving, online retailers should begin marketing for the season as early as October, according to MarketLive Inc., an e-commerce platform provider.

A Peebles apparel, accessories, cosmetics and footwear store will open Aug. 21 at 22 Riverside Square, in the Riverside Square shopping center along Hwy. 18/35 South in Prairie du Chien, Wis. It’s the second Peebles store in Wisconsin; the first opened

By adding some simple gifts to their back-to-school shopping list and saving the shoe boxes from their new shoes, Springfield-area kids are joining the effort to share a message of hope with some 8 million needy children in more than 90 countries...

Everyone always comments on how "time flies." In the case of Always Flowers & Fine Things, the first business to move into the new section of Scolari's Shopping Center, that is truly the case.