Shopping

Birthstone jewelry or carvings may be the perfect gift for that difficult person on your list.

The small local meat markets still survive in the Battle Creek/Kalamazoo area, in their battle against the "big box" stores.

These new mini-carts at the Gull Road Meijer in Kalamazoo are awful, and should be returned to the depths of hell from whence they came.

If you visited a West Michigan Meijer store on Saturday, you were welcomed by a sign on the door stating, "We are currently experiencing issues accepting electronic payments... "

The rest of the nation must experience Meijer's superiority over every other department store chain!

What many people may not know about the Kalamazoo/Portage area is the fact that we were on our way to becoming the Mall capital of Michigan. During the 80’s Kalamazoo had a minimum of 4 malls. Today, there is only one. Is the Crossroads Mall going to be the exception, or will it too join these abandoned and demolished malls of Kalamazoo’s past?

While the day and age of buying almost everything online was yet to come, Crossroads Mall gave people from the surrounding townships a place to shop and entertain. Recently, the Mall has been repurchased by a company based in New York, which leaves me with the question of: What will happen to the Crossroads Mall?

Find out who is open early and where to get the best deals to kick off the holiday shopping season in our Black Friday strategy guide for Kalamazoo.

Grab another slice of pumpkin pie and see if the Lions really do pull one out at the end. These major retailers will not be open on Thanksgiving this year.

Who hasn't ever exclaimed "I need a face mask for my butt". Wait...just me?