The NYS DOT is currently undertaking a 30 million dollar project to redirect traffic flow to try and ease the unsafe conditions that arise on peak shopping weekends.

HIGH Street stores throw open their doors today and tomorrow for a make-or-break final festive shopping weekend.

It will be open from Nov. 15 through Dec. 1, three days after Thanksgiving, traditionally the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

We've just come through the biggest shopping weekend of the year, which started a day early as many retailers decided to open on Thanksgiving night instead of Black Friday morning.

Ashley's pre-Thanksgiving shopping weekend with her sisters in L.A. was a lollapalooza that had grown in size, scope, and budget each year, seemingly by conscious design.

WITH the busiest shopping weekend of the year receding into memory, so, too, perhaps, is the romantic notion that holiday shopping is a wholly magical event.

Now, on the biggest shopping weekend of the year, Slate, Microsoft's magazine in cyberspace, has started such a list, called the Slate Sixty.

Key diary dates are December 10 and 11, when Oxford Street stages a traffic-free shopping weekend, and December 26, when most sales start.

In other years, the first shopping weekend of Christmas was described as lackadaisical, but the season ended strongly overall.

Employees at Asda's distribution centers were threatening a five-day strike starting Friday, during what is expected to be one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.