Winter Holidays

NEW YORK - Online retailing is expected to fare only about as well or as poorly as the retail economy as a whole during the Christmas season, The New York Times reported today. That stands in contrast to a steady growth since 1998, when online sales kept surging despite less favorable economic trends or even normal seasonal patterns.

Pathmark Stores announced today that it has kicked off its 12th year of raising money for the Community Food Banks in its New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia and Delaware supermarkets.

U.S. retailers are expected to experience the weakest holiday season since the recession of 1991, senior economists from the Retail Intelligence System (RIS) of PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast.