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Holiday Shopping Season Forecast: Consumers Fight for Deals

U.S. retailers enter the holiday season vowing to control discounting that has wreaked havoc on their results in the past, but competition between stores, consumers trained to expect discounts and a still-recovering economy point to a difficult year.
Holiday shoppers in New York | Source: Shutterstock
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NEW YORK, United States

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