Description:Holiday spending increased 0.7 percent in 2012, compared with last year, according to the MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report. Analysts projected it would increase 3 to 4 percent.
As retailers try to make up for lagging sales before the end of the year, it could mean bigger discounts for you.
We stopped by a Dallas Target store to see what we could find. We found something way better: super-discount-shopper Melissa Sylvester.(1:57)