Online Holiday Spending Down 1 Percent

December 22, 2008

In the last 49 days of the holiday season through December 19, online retail sales totaled $24.03 billion, according to comScore, slightly off the same period last year, but the analysts at the company say they expect a lot of last-minute spending.

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.