If you’re about to embark on this year’s holiday shopping adventure, you may want to jot down the retailers that our readers gave high marks to based on their own shopping experiences. Whether you want to hit the big stores, or are shopping for small appliances, check the list below for top retailers from our survey of more than 22,000 readers
With holiday shopping comes the inevitable crowds, the frantic search for hot-ticket items, and long lines at checkout.
Consumer Reports today unveiled its 2011 Naughty & Nice Holiday List. First introduced in 2010 as part of a public-education campaign, the Naughty & Nice Holiday List looks at the good and not-so-good shopping policies and the companies behind them. This year’s List includes high profile companies from a variety of fields including: air travel, electronics, apparel retailing, credit-card lending and concert ticketing.
This holiday season, one hot product might be Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet . But could an Amazon-branded smart phone be in the works for the 2012 holidays? Citigroup equity analysts Mark Mahaney and Kevin Chang say in a recent report that there are positive indications the online retailer is already working on a mobile phone .
Have you made up your holiday shopping list yet—and will tablet computers be on it? We surveyed consumers to find out which of several hot-ticket items they were planning to buy as gifts this year. And not surprising, many must-have gifts on Americans’ 2011 shopping list are electronics devices and gadgets
Before you hit the stores, check out these 8 highly-rated retailers