Shopping sites and apps worth a try
Once a year, the team at ShopSmart, the shopping magazine from the publisher of Consumer Reports, sweeps the Web for a special roundup of the latest and greatest shopping sites and apps. Each site...
View ArticleThese holiday shipping tips will deliver good results
If you had to handle nearly 15 billion items between now and New Year’s Eve, you would say the same thing: “Mail early.”“The sooner, the better,” said Ray V. Daiutolo Sr., regional spokesman for the...
View ArticleHow to give and receive this holiday
It’s OK, we’ve all done it.You’re out shopping for Christmas presents, you see something you like and you scoop it up for yourself. It’s better to give than receive, but sometimes it’s nice to give...
View ArticleOn the Record / Nov. 30, 2013
Hires/Promotions/Honors Joseph Carubba, president of Carubba Collision Corp., was named the 2013 Executive of the Year by Body Shop Business magazine. Carubba, a 33-year veteran in the industry, leads...
View ArticleS&P 500 gains for 8th straight week
NEW YORK – The stock market fizzled Friday at the end of a holiday-shortened trading day, but still logged its longest streak of weekly gains in a decade.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended down...
View ArticleExecutive trading
ASTRONICS CORP.: Mckenna, Robert J., director, sold 20,000 shares of common at $48.60 each on Nov. 22 and now directly and indirectly holds 13,745.COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP.: Woon, Eric, officer,...
View ArticleConsumers help spur Canadian economy’s growth
Canada’s economy grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years amid a gain in consumer spending and rebounds in business investment and inventories.Gross domestic product rose at a 2.7...
View ArticlePush to hike minimum wage is local
States and municipalities across the country are leading a localized push to raise the minimum wage, driven largely by Democrats, who see an opening to appeal to working class Americans at a time of...
View ArticleGerman apprentice model faces tough time catching on in U.S.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – As a high school junior, Hope Johnson thought she had things figured out. She’d been hit with wanderlust during an academic trip to Brazil, set her sights on London’s Richmond...
View ArticleBig public pension funds beginning to be more activist
Activist investors like Carl C. Icahn, Daniel S. Loeb and William A. Ackman are getting deep-pocketed imitators.Some of the biggest public pension funds, which have sought to influence companies for...
View ArticleDeveloper seeks re-use of 1490 Jefferson
A prominent East Side address that once had thriving business activity in the heart of the Jefferson Avenue commercial district is about to get a new life after years of disrepair.City approval is...
View ArticleAmericans kick off two-day shopping spree
The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint.More than a dozen major U.S. retailers stayed open for 24 hours or more on Thanksgiving Day through Black Friday, and crowds formed...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• 3544 Upper Mountain Road, Dawn Ryan; John Ryan to Kristie L. Slack; Erric R. Slack, $258,000.• 5181 Kennedy Crescent, Donald J. Blatner; Melissa A. Blatner to Sirva Relocation Credit,...
View ArticleErie County Real Estate transactions
AKRON• 12 Sylvan Parkway, Anne M. Lotz; Todd J. Lotz to Matthew B. Takach; Jennifer L. Takach, $126,000.ALDEN• 11035 Jane Drive, Lisa A. Skelly; Lisa A. Hummer to Mary Lou Altieri; Frank H. Altieri,...
View ArticleSmall businesses strike back on Small Business Saturday
It was the busiest shopping day of the year, but Monroe’s Place was dead.“We have Black Friday shoved down our throats since Halloween, but there we were and the store was no busier than any other...
View ArticleLocal retailers issue a call to ‘shop small’
A band marched through the center of Hamburg. Santa danced on Main Street in East Aurora. More than 100 fire trucks paraded through the Village of Lancaster.Communities throughout the region on...
View ArticleWebsite takes Dave’s Christmas Wonderland into cyberspace
A frenetic scene from the future of shopping is playing out at 85 Innsbruck Drive in Cheektowaga.More than 10,000 orders a day are shipped from warehouses the size of two Walmart Supercenters. From 4...
View ArticleRecord crowds over Black Friday weekend, but spending declined
NEW YORK – Did stores shoot themselves in the foot?Major retailers like Target and Macy’s offered holiday discounts as early as November and opened stores on Thanksgiving Day. It was an effort to...
View ArticleDemystifying Medicare Part D
During a recent workshop with seniors at my church, a debate broke out about Medicare Part D.That’s the program that helps pay for prescription drugs. Medicare offers the coverage to all enrollees,...
View ArticleIs your home inspector working for you or for your real estate agent?
Home inspectors and real estate agents work together, but not always for the best interest of the homebuyer, says Bruce McClure, a Toronto-based licensed home inspector and author of “Buy or Run: I’m...
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