http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_bi_ge/holiday_shopping]Holiday shopping season off to a modest start (AP) [/URL]



AP - The Thanksgiving shopping weekend may not have been the disaster some had feared, but unprecedented discounts and tempered buying likely resulted in overall soft sales as a buying binge on Friday quickly fizzled. Now, online retailers are ramping up deals to turn skittish shoppers into "Cyber Monday" spenders.