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This Week: The Holiday Shopping Season Begins

Consumers are getting choosier about where they spend. Retailers will need to work extra hard to ensure it’s in their stores, and not competitors’.
Forecasters are predicting a modest increase in spending over the holiday season.
Forecasters are predicting a modest increase in spending over the holiday season. (Mario Tama)

US retailers dodged a bullet with the unexpectedly speedy resolution of the strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, which had threatened to hold up thousands of shipments meant to stock stores during the busiest shopping period of the year.

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