Diamonds & Engagement Rings News

            Early this November retail sites saw the biggest rush in online traffic with jewelry, luxury, good and accessories. With November showing the start of the holiday season, online customers, comparison-shopping engine and discount sites experienced a flood of visitors.

            Moshe from Diamonds on fifth says: “With the sub-prime melt down and high gas prices having and impact on retail spending, consumers are doing their research and searching for the best deals online.” 

 There are many other departments stores that their customers also experienced traffic increases such as Target corp. with nearly 42 million visitors in November (up to 35 percent), followed by Wal-Mart with nearly 40 million visitors (up 54 percent) and J.C penny with 18 million visitors (up 37 percent). More than 2 million consumers have given the company permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing.

Gun-toting carjackers made off with an 18-wheel FedEx delivery truck after accosting the driver at a stoplight in Manhattan early Friday, police said.

Police say the truck was stopped at a traffic light at 47th Street and Eleventh Avenue when two men pulled guns on the driver and forced him out of the truck. The driver was put in another car and driven around for awhile. He was found around 1:30 this morning in Brooklyn, reports Magee Hickey for CBS station WCBS-TV.

The driver wasn’t hurt, police and FedEx Corp. spokesman Steve Barber said.

The FedEx Express truck was headed to a company facility in Newark, N.J. While the driver, who has worked with FedEx for 25 years was stopped at a traffic light on the far western side of midtown Manhattan, two men confronted him, brandishing a gun, according to police.

The truck was carrying more than $1 million of cargo, including holiday gifts, diamonds, and jewelry. Police do not consider the driver of the truck to be a suspect.

Moshe’s Comment: We shipped out two engagement rings with Fed-ex yesterday, and hope it wasn’t in this truck, We are in the middle how following the boxes. We will let you know if our diamond rings where on this truck.

The newest top two celebrities in New York, Teri Hatcher and Ashton Kutcher are representing luxury watchmaker Baume and Mercier.

As with the brand’s two previous campaigns, all royalties due to the ambassadors both of their photographers will be donated to charities together chosen by the Hollywood stars and watch brand. The new campaigns will support the fight against cancer, under privlaged women and the promotion of child education.

News: The ads featuring Teri Hatcher and Ashton Kutcher will launch on Jan 1. and April 1, respectively.Meg Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger and Gary Sinise were the previous Baume and Mercier Celebrity