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Winter Holidays

  • FedEx pivots in holiday shipping charges — except in some instances

    FedEx is giving its customers an early holiday gift — while taking a stab at its rival UPS.   The delivery service announced that it will forego additional surcharges on deliveries this holiday season — unless packages require additional handling, are oversized or unauthorized. FedEx made the decision based on the growing volume of large packages moving through the FedEx Ground network during the holidays.   

  • Saks to honor 80-year-old film icon (and her seven pals) for the holidays

    Saks Fifth Avenue is partnering with Disney to celebrate the holidays.   Saks' annual holiday window display at its New York City flagship on Fifth Avenue will be devoted to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The collaboration with Disney also includes special Disney-inspired fashion, accessories and giftable items created by premier designers and available across Saks' 41 stores in the U.S. and Canada, and Saks.com.   

  • GameStop does an about-face on Thanksgiving

    It's only July, but GameStop has jumped into the ongoing debate about whether stores should be open on Thanksgiving Day.    After keeping its stores closed on Thanksgiving for the past three years, the retailer has told its employees that stores will be open for this year's holiday. The change was first reported by gaming website Kotaku.   

  • Holiday Uptime: Preparing Your Network for the Holiday Rush

  • Study: Email will be the shining star this holiday season

    For all the buzz about interactive digital marketing options, the track record of email keep it at the top of marketers’ holiday wish lists.    This was according to the “2017 Christmas in July Survey,” a study from j2 Global. The study tapped 564 members of its customer base and 100 retailers.  

  • Tips to jump-start strategies for the 2017 holiday season

    Digitally-savvy customers will be contributing to a high volume of holiday traffic — and they have high expectations for retailers.    Seventy-six percent of U.S. consumers expect their interactions with a brand to be easy, according to “The Holiday in July 2017 Holiday Retail Outlook” report from Alliance Data  This will be a mantra this holiday season, regardless of the channel shoppers use to connect with their favorite retailers.  

  • J.C. Penney jumps into $20 billion industry with in-store shops

    J.C. Penney isn't playing around when it comes to toys.  

  • Study: Prime Day 2017 on pace to be biggest yet

    Amazon is giving new meaning to the phrase "Christmas in July."  
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