2014 Event Discount retailer Wal-Mart says that it is sorry for labeling women's plus-sized Halloween costumes as 'Fat Girl Costumes' on its website; the company retitled the shopping category and has sent individual apologies to offended customers on Twitter 2014 Event Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is seeking to buy U.S. online rebate service Ebates Shopping.com Inc. for $950 million; in recent years, Rakuten has been making acquisitions to expand its interests outside of Japan 2011 Event Consumers spend over $30 billion on online holiday shopping in the U.S., a 15 percent increase over last year 2003 Death Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping 1996 Death James William Rouse, U.S. builder (shopping malls), dies at 81 1975 Death Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king 1975 Event Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens 1954 Event 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan 1914 Birthday James William Rouse, U.S. builder, shopping malls/Columbia, Maryland
