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September 19, 2014

Holiday hiring plans highest since 1999

  • Credit a strengthening economy, more optimistic consumers and retailers trying to improve service in the age of Amazon.
    • By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
    AP Business Writers

    NEW YORK — UPS will hire up to 95,000. Kohl's plans to take on 67,000 and FedEx 50,000. Wal-Mart will add 60,000.

    One after the other, a flurry of major U.S. retail and transportation companies announced sharp increases this week in the number of temporary workers they plan to hire for the holiday season. Collectively, such hiring could reach its highest point this year for stores since 1999, when the economy was roaring and the Great Recession was still eight years away.


     
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