Not everyone was discomfited by the holiday crush and weather delays.

Every year the popular store takes on some 60 additional people to help with the holiday crush.

A sales clerk said business, in the holiday crush, was going well.

The lines have been engaged, the holiday crush, you know.

Three acts with a history of making the top 10 fell short of the top 10 this week, victims of the holiday crush of product.

On Wednesday night, the servitude pulled thin when the staff overstressed during the holiday crush.

Apple Computer, for instance, started using them just this month in some of its retail stores to help reduce some of the holiday crush at cash registers.

They had me do it in the middle of the holiday crush and I hired additional people.

Ms. Morse said the real deal maker was last year's holiday crush, when a flurry of publicity about Kiehl's compounded the usual increase in orders.

Other shoppers even seemed to take some pleasure in the holiday crush.