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November 30, 2021

Shoppers are back in stores, online

  • Overall holiday sales could be record breaking, according to the National Retail Federation.
    • By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
    AP Retail Writer

    NEW YORK — Americans are spending freely and going back to store shopping, knocking out some of the momentum in online sales from last year when Americans were making many of their purchases exclusively via the internet.

    Shopper traffic roared back on Black Friday, but it was still below pre-pandemic levels in part because retailers spread out big deals starting in October. The early buying was expected to also take a bite out of online sales on Monday, coined Cyber Monday by the National Retail Federation in 2005.


     
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