Elsewhere in the retail sector, the mood is more subdued ahead of the Christmas shopping season. Recruitment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas expects the industry’s total need for seasonal workers this Christmas to fall below last year’s 485,000 temporary workers.
A forecast from Adobe shows that American consumers will spend $275.1 billion online in November and December this year, an increase of 6.7 percent compared with last year.
According to industry figures, Amazon accounts for around 40 percent of the total US Christmas shopping market.
Package delivery company UPS plans to hire around 100,000 seasonal workers this holiday season, in line with last year.