Nearly one-third (32%) of shoppers the past holiday season used the click and collect method – with 69% of these shoppers purchasing additional items in the store when they went to pick up the item and 36% making another purchase in an adjacent store, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Holiday Consumer Purchasing Trends study.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it will spend more than $2 billion to acquire two new icebreakers to support increased sea traffic and business activity in the Arctic.

Convinced that low oil prices are here to stay, domestic auto executives shrugged off concerns about a potential plateau in global automobile demand, issuing bullish forecasts for 2016 and pledging billions of dollars in additional proceeds for shareholders.

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