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Amazon said it plans to add 250,000 U.S. workers for the holiday shopping season, 67% more than the number of people it hired for the past two years, as it scrambles to expand next-day delivery for shoppers. Amazon's plans contrast with other U.S. retailers, who say they will hire fewer people in stores and warehouses this year on expectations for reduced consumer spending in 2023. Forecasters expect holiday sales to come in at half of last year's rate due to concerns about higher prices...

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Target’s (ticker: TGT) fall deals, called Circle Week, will run from Oct. 1 to Oct. 7 this year. The retailer’s event starts a week before Walmart’s (WMT) “Holiday Kickoff” sale event, which goes from Oct. 9 to Oct. 12, and Amazon’s (AMZN) two-day “Prime Big Deals Day,” scheduled for Oct. 10 and 11. Last year, Target’s “Deal Days” started Oct. 6, which at the time was one of the store’s earliest dates for holiday deals...

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SEATTLE, September 19, 2023--The Climate Pledge—co-founded by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism—and C40 Cities today launched Laneshift, a partnership to tackle carbon emissions through zero-emission freight by reimagining medium- and heavy-duty shipping vehicles and the routes they travel...

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. has developed a new version of its cashierless shopping technology for clothing retailers — in an effort to expand the system beyond convenience and grocery stores.Most Read from BloombergF-35 Debris Found After a $100 Million Fighter Jet Went MissingVegas’ Newest Resort Is a $3.7 Billion Palace, 23 Years in the MakingIndia, Canada Trade Diplomatic Blows Over Murder AllegationsVanderbilt Rips US News Over Slide in College RankingsThe retail and cloud-computing gian...

Target said on Tuesday it would hire nearly 100,000 employees for the holiday season, like past two years, and offer discounts for the competitive shopping period as early as October. The plan comes against the backdrop of predictions that sales growth during the crucial holiday period in the United States could be just half of what it was last year due to higher prices denting consumer spending and worries of a recession. Last week, a report from career consultancy firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed that weaker spending coupled with increased labor costs would result in U.S. retailers hiring the lowest number of seasonal workers this year since 2008...