Nearly60% of Americans say they are looking to make a purchase via social media this year1. Pair that with the fact that Americans rank watching holiday movies over decorating the tree and baking cookies as one of their favorite holiday traditions2, Walmart found an opportunity to create a connection. The shoppable series will be released on TikTok, Roku and YouTube starting Dec. 2, with the remainder dropping Dec. 5 and Dec. 8.
The shoppable series follows New York designer Jessica as she returns to her hometown for the holidays. After losing her luggage on her travels, she visits her local Walmart, where she bumps into an old flame Javi. Between the town festivities, decorating and shopping, they start to rekindle their spark. How will it end? What will you shop? Tune in to find out how the story unfolds.
The Comptroller encourages all taxpayers to support Texas businesses while saving money on tax-free purchases of most clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks (sold for less than $100) during the annual Tax-Free weekend. Qualifying items can be purchased tax free from a Texas store or from an online or catalog seller doing business in Texas. In most cases, you do not need to give the seller an exemption certificate to buy qualifying items tax free.
The sales tax exemption applies only to qualifying items you buy during the sales tax holiday. Items you buy before or after the sales tax holiday do not qualify for exemption, and there is no tax refund available.
The statute specifically excludes special clothing or footwear that is primarily designed for athletic activity or protective use and that is not normally worn except when used for the activity. Industrial or medical grade masks (e.g. N95 or other masks designed as personal protective equipment) or other similar personal protection equipment are not exempt during the sales tax holiday.
During the holiday you can buy qualifying items in-store, online, by telephone, mail, custom order, or any other means. The sale of the item must take place during the specific period. The purchase date is easy to determine when the purchase is made in-store but becomes more complicated with remote purchases. The purchaser must have given the consideration for the item during the period even if the item may not be delivered until after the period is over.
For example, if a purchaser enters their credit card information in an online shopping website on Sunday Aug. 11, 2024 at 5:00
p.m.to purchase qualifying school supplies, but the school supplies will not be shipped until Friday Aug. 16, 2024 and will not arrive until Tuesday Aug. 20, the purchase will still qualify for the exemption. However, if the charge to your credit card is declined by the payment processor at 11:00 p.m. on Sunday Aug. 11, 2024 and the purchaser does not resubmit payment until Monday Aug. 12, the purchase is taxable.
If the delivery charge is a flat rate per package, and the amount charged is the same regardless of how many items are included in the package, the total charge can be attributed to any one of the items in the package.
If you sold qualifying items tax free during the sales tax holiday, only include these tax-free sales in Total Texas Sales (Item 1) of your sales tax return. Do not include your tax-free sales in Taxable Sales (Item 2).
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You may not be ready for Black Friday and the shopping frenzy that follows from now through the holidays. But the bad guys are. They're stocked up on things like credit card blanks so they can copy your number down and use it to steal money. Here are things to watch for so you don't get Grinched this year!
These and other Salesforce holiday insights come from commerce, marketing, and customer service data collected from 1.5 billion shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360 platform. Among U.S online retailers, 29 of the top 30 use Salesforce.
Seamless fulfillment and easy returns will be key strategies for retailers looking to increase loyalty and profitability through the remainder of the holiday. Retailers that are efficiently fulfilling online orders from physical stores, especially during these peak shopping days, can extend their shipping cutoff date and win market share.
Powered by Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud, Salesforce analyzed aggregated data to produce holiday insights from the activity of more than 1.5 billion global shoppers across more than 64 countries, with a focus on 12 key markets: the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia/New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), and the Nordics. This battery of benchmarks provides a deep look into the last nine quarters and the current state of digital commerce. Several factors are applied to extrapolate macroeconomic figures for the broader retail industry.
The prediction data that we present are from proprietary Salesforce research. The calculations we use blend first-party and third-party data, as well as several market assumptions, to generate the data points presented.
Christmas is always clause for celebration and Hallmark loves the holiday season so much that it's observing the halfway point. For the occasion, the channel is serving up Christmas in July for audiences to watch the festive flicks all month long. While sizzling days of summer might not conjure visions of sugar plums, hot cocoa, mistletoe and quaint snowy villages, we will take any excuse to curl up and watch Hallmark Christmas movies.
Hallmark isn't just adding the tried and true favorites to its Christmas in July lineup. The network is also debuting new Christmas movies for July. The first film, Falling Like Snowflakes, about a photographer on the hunt for a rare snowflake, premieres on June 29. Throughout July, Hallmark will release three more merry movies, along with an extended cut of Three Wise Men and a Baby. While some of these movies are brand new, others were first aired on Hallmark Movies Now (a Hallmark streaming platform) and are new to the Hallmark channel.
This year, you can get into the holiday spirit early by watching Hallmark's festive flicks beginning on June 28 throughout the month of July. Don't have cable or access to the Hallmark channel? There's no need to add it to your Christmas gift list because we've found a range of options to watch Hallmark's Christmas in July on streaming.
Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about how to watch Christmas in July on Hallmark on streaming. We've also got the deets on Hallmark's new holiday films hitting the schedule this month and next.
For $6 a month, you can watch the Hallmark Channel live on Peacock. As an added bonus, Peacock also allows viewers to watch Hallmark Christmas in July movie premieres on demand for 30 days after the airdate.
Another option to watch the Hallmark Channel live is with a live TV streaming service that has the Hallmark channel in its package. These streamers essentially replace cable, giving subscribers access to a variety of channels. Live streaming services with the Hallmark network include Philo, Frndly TV, FuboTV and Hulu + Live TV.
For only $7 per month, Frndly TV gives customers access to over 50 channels live and on-demand including Hallmark, Lifetime, A&E and Ion. The live stream service also has a free 7-day trial for new customers to try out the platform.
FuboTV allows subscribers to watch Hallmark movies live as they air or later using the 1,000 hours of cloud DVR storage that comes with the plan. FuboTV's Pro Plan includes 190 channels and new customers can take advantage of a free seven-day trial.
Hulu's live television subscription gives customers over 95 channels, plus the libraries of titles from Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+. Hulu + Live TV has a free three-day trial to see if you enjoy the service before committing to the $77 per month.
Hallmark's Christmas in July officially starts at the end of June on June 28 to fit in all the jolly movies. From June 29 to July 27 viewers will be able to tune in to the Hallmark channels every Saturday at 8:00 p.m. ET to catch the Christmas in July new releases. Below, learn more about each movie.
One of Prime Video's shiniest offerings is a new Eddie Murphy-led Christmas comedy called Candy Cane Lane, which debuted on the first day of December. The streaming service also has an assortment of movies from Christmases past, including It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooged and the R-rated action movie Violent Night.
Peacock has at least two big things going for it this jolly season: Hallmark movies and The Grinch. If 2023 Hallmark holiday movies are what you're after, you can watch them live as they air on the East Coast with NBCUniversal's streaming service. You can also stream them on demand during a 72-hour period that starts the day after they air.
Max is a place to park your sleigh if you like classic Christmas movies. Elf resides here, as does National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. On top of that, it offers the films A Christmas Story Christmas -- a sequel with Peter Billingsley reprising his role as Ralphie -- and 8-Bit Christmas -- an '80s-set comedy narrated by Neil Patrick Harris.
Last December, rather than just binging familiar Christmas movies like Elf, Home Alone, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I spent the season with some Netflix films I'd never seen. They included a musical starring Keegan-Michael Key, a family-friendly fantasy with Kristen Wiig and Maggie Smith, and the animated standout Klaus.
Netflix has more worthwhile titles waiting under the tree. The R-rated film Love Actually is streaming, and you shouldn't skip the classic musical White Christmas. You can also type the following into your browser, and change the last part to the Netflix code 1394527 or 1474017 to see the corresponding collections of Romantic Christmas Movies and Christmas Kids & Family Movies.
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