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BestBuy.com Experiences Overnight Web Site Outage, According To Monitoring Service InformationWeek
BestBuy's Web site response times have been climbing as holiday shopping has become more active in December, according to WebSitePulse.com.
Tesco tops web site performance poll Computing.co.uk
Dave Friedlos, Computing , Friday 15 December 2006 at 00:00:00 Site availability and load times crucial for online grocery shopping Supermarket giant Tesco significantly outperforms its rivals when it comes to ordering groceries online, offering greater performance and availability, according to a new report. > Read the full article
Cobb school board blocks tax district, shopping center Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A deeply divided Cobb County school board derailed Kennesaw's funding plans to redevelop a run-down 34-acre site on Cobb Parkway into a shopping center. Board members voted 3-3, failing the needed majority to create a Tax Allocation District at the site on the corner of Kennesaw Due West Road. Absent from Thursday's vote was chairwoman Teresa Plenge, who was recouperating from surgery. School
AARP Services Announces Pilot of Discount Shopping Web Site for 37 Million AARP Members: AARP MarketPlace Powered by PMC U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
AARP Services, Inc. announced today that Power Merchandising Corporation (PMC) is piloting a new AARP member benefit this holiday season called AARP MarketPlace powered by PMC, an exclusive Web site for discount shopping. AARP's 37 million members will enjoy significant discounts of up to 35 percent on more than 500 world- class name brand products, from digital cameras and flat screen
Demand For Elmo Doll Downs Wal-Mart Site TechWeb
Wal-Mart's online shopping site suffered an outage Wednesday when anxious Christmas shoppers flooded the site looking for the hard-to-find Elmo T.M.X. doll.
'Smoke' Web Site Offers Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Options WRTV TheIndyChannel.com via Yahoo! News
NASCAR driver and Hoosier native Tony Stewart is a champion on the track and entrepreneur off the track.
Who's Your Buddy? A New Social Shopping Site ECommerce-Guide
A new e-commerce site called Buddy Shopping that lets consumers peruse products online simultaneously with friends launched today with the promise to offer a viable new channel for Web shop owners.
Ground Broken for New Shopping Center WTOK-TV Meridian
The planning is done and work has now begun on the Meridian Crossroads shopping center. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday at the site of the project where Kmart was once located.
'Bayonne Crossing' shopping center gets plan board approval The Jersey Journal
The Bayonne Planning Board has voted unanimously to approve the final site plan for the 10-building, 358,418-square-foot shopping center proposed for a 29-acre tract of land east of Route 440 between New Hook Road and East 22nd Street.
Cedar Shopping Centers to Buy 5 Pa. Giant-Anchored Properties, One Development Site Progressive Grocer
DECEMBER 13, 2006 -- CARLISLE, Pa. -- Port Washington, N.Y.-based Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. said yesterday that it would purchase five Giant supermarket-anchored properties in eastern Pennsylvania from Caldwell Development Co., a private development company that has developed and built a number of supermarket-anchored and other major tenant-anchored properties in that state.
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