Editorial: Holiday sales show consumers feeling stressed, losing confidence
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Dec 06, 2022
3 minutes
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On the surface, the holiday retail season is off to a great start. Almost 200 million U.S. shoppers turned out in person and online from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday, and holiday retail sales are expected to rise between 6% and 8% from last year to nearly a trillion dollars. Amazon reported its most successful launch of a holiday shopping season ever.
It’s enough to make you think COVID-19 and the hard times that went along with it have disappeared for good, especially as
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