Shopping online? Here are some tips to help prevent someone making off with a package before you even know its delivered.
It's an unfortunate reality but during the holiday season thieves are looking for opportunities to steal gifts. Already in the Burlington police logs in the past week there have been two calls of people coming home to find packages that were set to be delivered to their homes were missing. In both instances the delivery companies stated in their tracking services that the parcels had been delivered but they were nowhere in site. The following tips come courtesy of the Somerville Police Department and were endorsed in a tweet from the Burlington Police Department.
Let your fingers do the shopping with click-throughs to online deals promoted as Cyber Monday and Cyber Week specials.
Let your fingers do the shopping with click-throughs to online deals promoted as Cyber Monday and Cyber Week specials.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
With Black Friday weekend shopping now at an end, the shift online is happening with local and national stores advertising Cyber Monday deals, just a click away. So who has great Cyber Monday deals? Check out our list: Here's A Sampling Of Cyber Monday, Cyber Week Sales
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers
98 Middlesex Tpke, Burlington, MA
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Kohl's
150 Lexington St, Burlington, MA
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Best Buy
84 Middlesex Tpke, Burlington, MA
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Today is Cyber Monday, a day of online Holiday sales.
The following is a release from the Better Business Bureau regarding safety tips for Cyber Monday: Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, has officially replaced Black Friday as the most popular day to shop for the holidays. Shopping online means avoiding the crowds, but it also opens up the buyer to attacks from scammers and hackers. Every year, more people head online rather than to the mall to get their holiday shopping done. According to a preliminary shopping survey, conducted for the National Retail Federation by BIGresearch, up to 152 million people plan to shop Black Friday weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), higher than the 138 million people who planned to do so last year. According to the survey, 74 million people say …
BurlGirl
1:49 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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