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Retailers may find it harder to find workers for holidays because of the gig economy

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 18, 2016
We’re coming up on the holiday shopping season. And you can be sure retail and delivery companies know that. They’re trying to hire temporary seasonal workers. Target, UPS, Amazon, the list goes on — they’re all competing to staff their sales counters and get orders out the door — and it’s tough because unemployment’s even […]
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April 15 is not tax day this year

by Mitchell Hartman
Apr 12, 2016
Local holidays in Washington, D.C., Maine and Massachusetts are giving Americans a three- or four-day grace period for filing their taxes this year.
You're getting a few extra days to file your taxes this year.
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Presidents Day sales may struggle

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 15, 2016
The sales on furniture and appliances are still important to the bottom line for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Presidents Day may be "the un-sexiest of all the shopping holidays." 
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Actuality’s Holiday Extravaganza!

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 18, 2015
Quartz and Marketplace get into the holidays and looks back at 2015.
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Rudolph still has a nose for business

by Emma Jacobs
Dec 11, 2015
The story of Rudolph and how the reindeer continues to shine bright in ratings.
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Retailers are competing — for holiday workers

by Andy Uhler
Nov 5, 2015
More of them work in shipping rather than in the store.
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The science and art of stocking holiday shelves

by Conrad Wilson
Dec 26, 2014
Retailers make educated guesses when ordering inventory. Their misfires make great after-Christmas deals.
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Modern gift-wrap tradition has ties to Hallmark

by Sarah Hulett
Dec 24, 2014
Wrapping paper as we know it took off about 100 years ago. Now it's a $3 billion industry.
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Google knows what's under the Christmas tree

by Adriene Hill
Dec 24, 2014
New York Times mines search-engine data to see what gifts people are searching for, city by city.
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Odds 'high' that Sony will air 'The Interview' in some form

by Adriene Hill
Dec 22, 2014
Grantland's Wesley Morris thinks so.
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