Since the dawn of the internet, shoppers who take a risk by purchasing something online that they can't see or try on experience enjoyed a small (albeit legally grey area) kickback: avoiding the sales tax they'd pay if they bought the same item from a brick-and-mortar (or, you know, drywall-and-vinyl siding) store.… » 7/17/14 7:45pm 7/17/14 7:45pm

If you wouldn't pay $350 for Brooks Brothers chopsticks, today is your lucky day: They're on sale! » 5/23/14 4:05pm 5/23/14 4:05pm

Free People is resorting to something innovative in the way it markets $96 tank tops that look like sun-stained handkerchiefs: scrapping models entirely. For a two-week span starting tomorrow, all of the images used to sell certain clothing items will be user-submitted photos of shoppers modeling the items they… » 2/21/14 6:30pm 2/21/14 6:30pm

If you forgot someone on Christmas morning, good news: You've got a one-time pass, courtesy of UPS. According to the Wall Street Journal, eleventh-hour online orders swamped the company, and many packages didn't arrive by December 25th despite retailers' promises. » 12/26/13 10:10am 12/26/13 10:10am

Thanksgiving is next week, which means we're barreling toward the time of the year when nationwide productivity falls off a cliff as everyone with a desk job starts cruising online sales all day, every day. Just in time for this influx of shoppers, AdWeek reports, Target has redesigned its website, and boy oh boy is… » 11/22/13 4:00pm 11/22/13 4:00pm

H&M promised to launch online shopping in the U.S. in August, and here it is, the first day of the month, and the online shop is open. Here's what you'll find: » 8/01/13 1:20pm 8/01/13 1:20pm

Praise the Goddess of Fast Fashion: After operating here for 13 years, hip, affordable Swedish retailer H&M is finally going to offer online shopping to those of us in the U.S. » 7/29/13 4:00pm 7/29/13 4:00pm

Oh, those salad days when you could shop and carouse online without any fear of the tax man; the days when you could safely take an Ambien and wake up to an inbox full of receipts from various internet retailers and think yes, I really did by a to-scale replica of Iron Throne, but, hey, at least I can skip out on… » 5/06/13 11:10am 5/06/13 11:10am

Unless you want to end up paying more. » 7/17/12 5:40pm 7/17/12 5:40pm

If you love shopping with the click of a mouse, be advised: Online sales tax is nigh. ABC News reports that shoppers could pay at least 5 percent more than they do today: » 7/16/12 4:20pm 7/16/12 4:20pm

We received multiple tips today with links to an online store that calls itself the Abercrombie & Fitch Outlet, to a product in the store called "N***** Brown Pants." Using a racial slur as a youthful, carefree, and edgy touch in a product name would be a totally fucked up, racist thing for Abercrombie to do — if the… » 3/22/12 4:45pm 3/22/12 4:45pm

Want to know what's in Amazon's Home & Kitchen department? Well, they've got some shower curtains, some jewelry organizers, some nice vacuum cleaners ... oh, and Nazi flags. Lots and lots of Nazi flags. » 2/29/12 5:45pm 2/29/12 5:45pm

Over the last few years, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the world of online commerce: it seems that people tend to buy things during evening hours, right around when they're also unwinding after work with a glass or entire bottle of wine. While you may have thought it your own mildly embarrassing secret vice,… » 12/28/11 6:00pm 12/28/11 6:00pm

Today Good Morning America dived into the wild world of ordering knock-off wedding dresses from international websites, and surprise! They did not like what they found. » 11/03/11 11:40am 11/03/11 11:40am

Plus-size shoppers rarely hear straight-up good news — there's always a caveat or catch — and the latest dispatch from H&M is no exception. » 1/26/11 1:04pm 1/26/11 1:04pm

• Worst-selling, that is. Swift's April Elle issue sold the fewest copies of the year, and her covers of Glamour and Marie Claire were nearly as bad. Blake Lively bombed on Vogue and Esquire, but weirdly sold well for Allure. [WWD]
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• Tom Ford: "I feel that fashion has become too serious...Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life." Ford also believes in, wait for it, "real clothes for real women." [Racked]
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Websites like Groupon.com have offered consumers unprecedented, exciting access to flash deals that must be purchased without much time to mull over their usefulness. And now we're all addicted to bargains. » 12/19/10 3:35pm 12/19/10 3:35pm

With The Book Depository's new Watch People Shop feature, you can indeed watch people virtually book-shop in real time all over the world. Surprisingly addictive! But so much for buying those romance novels from the privacy of your own home... » 8/10/10 5:32pm 8/10/10 5:32pm