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It seems like a race for the retailers — who can clear out their Winter inventory the soonest?  Discounts we’re seeing now are unprecedented – about a month earlier than last year’s activity. We expect to see more price drops, more free shipping offers, and more “additional %’s” off on Winter Clearance.  Note that the …

This is awesome!  Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?  How many times have you wished you could purchase just one replacement glove or mitten (not only for your kids, but for yourself for that matter)?   This should really boost mitten and glove sales through Lands End, already a popular source for children’s winter outwear. …

Season Transition is in full swing.  All the merchants now have new Spring merchandise on-line and in stores.  Gosh — it’s hard to look at those bathing suits right now!  We’re still only 1/2 way through winter.   Seasonal transition and overlap sales are the best time to buy previous season merchandise and offers enticing …

Here’s a deal to checkout this weekend… While we haven’t verified Sasha was wearing these shoes on Inaugural Day, we did find the style is available by Primigi at Hanna Andersson — on Clearance, for only $20!  Regularly priced at $52.50 and at over 60% off, we recommend them as a Buy. They come in …

We found this briefly posted on J. Crew’s website home page offering their sentiments on being part of this historical inauguration week. It appears the Malia and Sasha’s Inaugural Day coats were specially designed for them by J. Crew and were not available in this seasons catalog.  You can still get parts of their “look”, …

Gap & Old Navy are both offering 30% off on New Arrivals for Spring this weekend (through Sunday only), and Free Shipping on orders over $150 (code = “SPRING”).  But, the deal is only on select new arrivals — not all Spring merchandise.    We recommend this deal only if you have a need for something …

One of the best things about Winter Clearance is the introduction of new Spring Lines — reminding us that this frigid winter (up here in the North) will eventually come to an end! Seasonal transition and overlap sales are the best time to buy previous season merchandise and offers enticing deals at 20-30% off the …

The girls and Michelle Obama all looked fantastic today, don’t you think? So cheerful, so classy, and so normal! As we speculated on the event in our short article Sunday, there appeared to be no secrets out of the bag as to what they would wear.  Our hope that would look great but not be …

Winter Clearance sales continue this week with even further markdowns.  A few major retailers seem to be in a race to sell out soonest, while others are employing slower markdown strategies.   Some notables are: Lands End – 65% off Clearance (not seen in prior seasons this early) Hanna Andersson – practically sold out GapKids & …