Fred Business News - With just two weeks to go until Christmas the nation's retailers should be getting worried that consumers have been slow to rev up the pace of their holiday shopping, industry experts said Monday.

The trend to procrastinate doesn't bode well for merchants. The November-December shopping season fuels as much as 50 percent of sales and profits at many chains.

"What we know from our consumer survey this past weekend is that people said they have completed 36 percent of their holiday shopping so ...   more »