But others cited confidence as a possible blight on the Christmas shopping season and on economic recovery in general.
The overturning of the ban is likely to provide a big boost to Samsung ahead of the Christmas shopping season.
For consumers, prices that have been very stable are starting to come down in time for the Christmas shopping season.
But that Christmas shopping season Wal-Mart slashed prices on toys, flat-screen televisions and other electronics as it warred with Target and Costco.
Today at stores all over the country, managers are looking over their accounts and trying to figure out how well they did this Christmas shopping season.
Nintendo launches the first new game console in six years with the Wii U on November 18, just before Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season.
Target, Kmart, Toy R Us, Best Buy and many other prominent outlets sought to take advantage of the Christmas shopping season a little earlier than usual.
And there are few more valuable predictors for the Christmas shopping season than plans by major chains for staffing up with temporary salespeople, drivers, customer service reps and cashiers to help get them through the busy season.
So far, this amounts to a stark reversal of expectations and could evolve into a significant point of economic uncertainty for U.S. retailers not only up to the elections but also past them, to the crucial Christmas-shopping season.
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Cohen estimates that retailers will lose about half of sales they expected for the post-holiday shopping season with the Christmas blizzard impediment.
This increase in consumer spending in December can also be attributed to the holiday shopping season from Thanksgiving through Christmas when consumers are more likely to turn to their credit cards for purchases.
The collection hit Target stores on December 1, sandwiched between the two most promotional peaks in the holiday shopping season: Black Friday and the final week before Christmas, he said.
Companies had feared that the lockout would spill over into the crucial holiday shopping season and take a chunk out of their pre-Christmas sales.
Last year, the 10 days before Christmas accounted for 24.4 percent of total GAFO retail sales in the entire holiday shopping season of November and December.
As a result, the wedding industry refers to the January-to-March period as "Bridal Christmas, " the busy season when brides kick off their wedding plans by going dress shopping.
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Pinterest, for example, is looking to become a major holiday shopping hub this season, by allowing users to create pin-board wish lists for Christmas.
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