Until recently, Advent calendars were predictable – a basic cardboard box with a piece of barely passable chocolate behind each numbered flap. How did this quiet holiday tradition explode into a ...

This story is part of Retail TouchPoints’ ongoing “Small Business, Big Ideas” series, focusing on smaller retail brands that have found big success and have even bigger ambitions. The advent calendar ...

The holiday season is so close that I can almost taste it — though that might just be because I've been busy trying out all the best Advent calendars of the year. It's always disappointing when you ...

When Sephora put out a rewards beauty advent calendar for this holiday season, available to consumers in the US for 2,500 loyalty points, could it have expected such a backlash? If advent calendars of ...

Long before social media was even a thought (let alone of-the-moment updates from TikTok), the advent calendar—first a Lutheran, later broadly Christian tradition—has counted down the days until ...

Open a door in some Advent calendars and you might find a necklace or a pair of earrings. By Jessica Bumpus Counting down the days until Dec. 25 is often associated with opening a window in a ...