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“We’re coming with a momentum of the holiday season into the new year and trends continue to look relatively positive,” Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said.

Online prices increased 3.1% in December compared with the prior year and rose 0.8% month over month, according to Adobe Analytics.

Despite ongoing supply chain problems, inflation and the omicron Covid variant, the holidays in 2021 set records for spending.

Find out the easiest way to return the sweater that doesn’t fit just right.

Personal finance site WalletHub ranked the 100 largest U.S. cities for their New Year’s Eve fun factor. Here’s where to get the most bang for your party buck.

The company is trying to stage a comeback and regain relevance among customers with plus-size mannequins, maternity bras and more.

Despite omicron fears and higher prices, holiday shoppers shelled out big bucks this season on gifts, travel and entertainment.

The company, which tracks all forms of payment, said a surge of Covid-19 cases did not damp demand to spend and celebrate.

Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure.

Shoppers have rushed to malls again for their annual holiday tradition of last minute shopping.

Whether doing some last-minute shopping or grabbing food to prepare for holiday parties, you may need to run out to the stores this Christmas Eve.

Delta Airlines is working with Gina Sheldon after she said she found the holiday shopping she’d done on a trip to Europe had been replaced with trash, including dog food and a can of men’s shaving cream

This year, puzzles are a popular gift, but supply chain issues may make them hard to find.

Retail-store traffic fell 26.3% on Saturday compared with the Saturday before Christmas in 2019, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.

With less than a week to go before Christmas, some shoppers, like Danielle Wagner, are still scanning stores for gifts. “I’m kind of doing last-minute things in person,” Wagner said in Dedham, Massachusetts, this week. But people hunting last-minute for games and puzzles might struggle to find what they’re looking for this year, as spiking popularity and supply chain...

Amid supply chain issues and inflation, the 2021 holiday spending of millionaires isn’t shifting much compared to last year.

Gifting stocks to children can be a great way to teach them about investing and improve financial literacy.

A strong wave of early shopping, warmer weather and new anxiety about the coronavirus variants will influence how consumers shop and what they may buy.

Retailers sounded the alarm months ago that there could be holiday toy shortages this year because of supply chain issues. Leslie Gaydos has more.

Not all gifts hit the mark and sometimes that medium shirt you got from your friend is more like small. We have tips to make the return process easier for everyone.