As someone who loves shopping and going to the mall, you would never take me as the person to say that I would much rather do my Christmas shopping in small-town Ontario.
Every year for Christmas, my best friend and I make the trek to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to do the bulk of our Christmas shopping. What is so special about NOTL is that it is a very small and quaint area, filled with Canadian history and tradition. The shops in the downtown core are unique and filled with things you would never find at a mall or outlet store.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my family and I went to visit relatives in the Phoenix area. On our way home from staying with a friend, we knew we’d be passing a mega Ikea store, so we decided to stop and check out the prices and styles of desks for my daughter’s room.
In case you’re not familiar with Ikea, it is a Swedish home furnishing store that offers inexpensive, well-designed, well-functioning products ranging from kitchen utensils and dishes, to furniture to flooring to textiles. There are only 37 stores in the United States.
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When is the best time to buy a new or used vehicle? Is it at the beginning of the month, the end of the month? Maybe it is in January or in December? When is the best time to buy? The answer, of course, is now. Now is the absolute best time that there ever will be.
Of sure, there have been great sales in the past and it is possible that cars will be sold at a discount in the future, but right now they have got to sell….today!!! Today is the perfect storm of savings that we will never see again. It always amazes me how they can always sell the idea to people (myself included) that you need to act and that you need to act right now.
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NBC's local Channel 5 News team just announced that a premium outlet shopping mall is headed for south Grand Prairie. Along the Hwy 360 and I-20 corridor, a San Marcos-style outlet mall is planned for the near future. Christmas shopping fanatics like the Wellspring Church women's group will no longer have to travel hours beyond the DFW metroplex to get the best deals on popular name brand items.
Only a few short miles from Parks Mall, this new outlet mall will make Interstate 20 the place to go for all your gift shopping needs. Hopefully, the Hwy 161 (George Bush Turnpike) extension will be completed by the time of the outlet mall's grand opening. The southbound side of the turnpike currently ends at Airport Freeway in Irving, but construction has been underway for some time to extend the turnpike through Grand Prairie, intersecting with I-30 and eventually I-20 as well.
In the mid-cities area, Parks Mall, North East Mall, and Southlake Town Square are currently the three best shopping areas between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Planned store names have not yet been released for the new outlet mall. We'll keep you updated on the construction and other newsworthy items.
