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Friday. its more like gray november going on in there. you see these deals so early. >> how do you find them though whether its online or in the stores? you always want to think youre getting the absolute best. how do you figure that out? >> a lot of people are downloading apps. people these days, i have a statistic here that says that more people now, about 2.1 billion people are shopping via their mobile devices or own a mobile device globally. and that statistic will go up by 2020. everyone i...

Gardens and museums every month. and go to target.com to see what type of events are around. >> i think as americans were guilty of not visiting the national parks. >> mark your calendar for august 25th in honor of the national park service holiday. theres free entrance. and now theyre hosting a program called every kid in the park in which fourth graders can get free tickets for the next school year for they and their families. >> and free health care we need to focus on reactionary, now its ab...

That fitbit from amazon also available at the same price and arriving the same day from target.com. if you missed out on shopping over this grand weekend, have no fear. the retailers have a lot more up their sleeves before christmas. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> i feel like the better deals are always closer to christmas. >> you are waiting it out. >> im a waiter. maybe thats how i rationalize my -- >> procrastination? >> procrastination. >> do what you got to do. coming up, biblical...

Too. you should try to do that. when you open up the e-mail from target, theres a link for credit monitoring. you can pursue that or go to the corporate website for target to do that yourself. credit monitoring.target.com. be careful. i want to reiterate. target has found 12 different potential scams of people using their name and trying to go out and scam more money from nervous customers. dont click anything that looks unusual or doesnt have a header like i showed you. dont click on anything w...

Debit cards. these are horror stories youve been hearing. if youre a target shopper and may have been one of the 70 million that got an e-mail from target and are concerned about whether its real or not. look at the top from the target.com. to, from, subject there. make clear youre not sucked in by a scammer trying to make you think its officially target. heres what you do if you see an e-mail from target pop up. go to,ttps corporate.target.com. go to the target corporate website. check your cre...

An e-mail from target after the massive security breach, be careful about scammers. they may try to send you a fake e-mail that looks similar to the real e-mail from target to steal your information. a few things you can do, check out targets corporate website for more information. check your credit report and bank statements. this morning, russian security forces have begun anti-terrorist operations not far from the olympic games. these concerns grow. some 40,000 russian officers are being put ...

Cyber monday. thats up 15% from last year. >> okay. target.com, theyve been advertising that over 100,000 items are going to be on sale. those deals going live in the middle of the night. is there an advantage to shoppers who stay up late or set their alarm for 2:30 in the morning and get up and shop then? >> the only advice i would give there is if you are planning to buy big-ticket items, those are items or making purchases of over $50. at target, if youre not buying anything over $50, youre n...

Welcome back. minding your business, the tech heavy nasdaq might be headed for a lower open after we learn that pc sales plummeted in the first three months of the year. taiwan based acer saw a decline. hewlett-packard pc shipments dropped 24%. overall, pc shipments, dropped. idc blames tablets for disrupting the pc markets and microsoft windows 8 getting a weak reception from customers. target reportedly renaming some sandals for sale on website. the sandals are called orina, russian ward for...

Something nice coming from target.com. they have five of these around the country. between black friday and cyber monday they processed in this facility alone over 300,000 orders. thats five times what they would get on a normal weekend. it is growth from a year ago. heres the thing, what analysts are finding is that retailers who are able to get you to buy both in the store and online find that those consumers generally spend more. so theyre not shopping at one oor the other. theyre spending mo...

it is september 14th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." im carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. thanks for waking up with us. nearly one in six americans are now living in poverty. thats according to a new report from the census bureau. its a gut check on where we stand in the wake of the recession. here are the raw numbers from the government. 46.2 million lived in poverty in 2010. thats over 15% of the population, the highest level since 1993. for a family of f...