Mark your calendars: National Shopping Day is coming

MISSISSAUGA - We have Black Friday, Cyber Monday and of course Boxing Day, and now there’s even a sanctioned warm-up event for holiday shoppers. Brace yourself for The Shopping Channel’s fourth annual National Shopping Day on Monday, Oct.1. Created in 2009, National Shopping Day is designed to “inspire and celebrate the shopper in us all,” bringing Canadians outstanding values on high-quality, unique products from brands they know and trust for this “can’t miss event” says The Shopping Channel. National Shopping Day, it adds, also serves as the unofficial kick off to the holiday shopping season, and with “only 84 days...