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Pinduoduo offers uninterrupted grocery services and deliveries during Lunar New Year
Pinduoduo Inc.February 18, 2021 GMT
SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Pinduoduo Inc. (“Pinduoduo”)(NASDAQ: PDD) has made it more convenient for consumers during Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in China, when most businesses are shut.
Pinduoduo has worked with merchants and logistics providers to stay open and dispatch orders during the weeklong public holiday, which began on Feb. 11.
In an industry first, China Post and courier companies like SF Express, Yunda Express, and J&T, are staying open during this holiday season, with an estimated million couriers out in force to deliver parcels. An official with China Post estimates that parcel volumes during the holiday period would be double that of last year.
2020 Holiday eGift Sales Up More Than 80% over 2019 as Retailers Look to Build on Momentum of Digital Growth in 2021
Data from Blackhawk Network s BrandedPay™ Post-Holiday Report analyzes 2020 holiday spending and trends shaping the industry in 2021
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As retailers consider how to build on the digital momentum in 2020, a new holiday spending report
1 shows a more than 80% increase in digital gift card (eGift) sales and a nearly 40% increase in overall eCommerce gift card sales during the holiday season. The Blackhawk Network BrandedPay™ Post-Holiday spending report based on consumer research and Blackhawk s own U.S. sales data found consumer spending exceeded holiday projections from the organization s earlier BrandedPay™ Holiday Shopping Preview
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FILE PHOTO: People visit at the shops at Hudson Yards during early opening for the Black Friday sales in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
(Reuters) - U.S. holiday sales jumped 8.3% last year to record their best growth in at least 19 years, as consumers used their stimulus checks to splurge on gifts, the National Retail Federation (NRF) said on Friday.
The retail group said holiday sales, including e-commerce, grew to $789.4 billion, beating it’s forecast of between 3.6% and 5.2% growth.
The sales jump last year was more than double the 3.5% average holiday growth over the previous five years, including 2019’s 4% gain, NRF said.
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Birks Group Presents Its FY2021 Holiday Period Sales Results
January 14, 2021 GMT
MONTREAL (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 14, 2021
Birks Group Inc. (the “Company” or “Birks Group”) (NYSE American: BGI), today reported its sales results for the interim holiday sales period from November 1, 2020 through December 26, 2020 (the “FY2021 Holiday Period”).
For the FY2021 Holiday Period, net sales were 0.2% lower than last year, primarily due to a 1.8% decrease in comparable store sales, driven by temporary store closures due to COVID-19 restrictions in certain regions in Canada. As a result of various provincial health restrictions, seven of the Company’s 29 retail locations, including its flagship Bloor Street store in Toronto, were temporarily closed for in-person shopping for the majority of the holiday season. When excluding the seven stores that were temporarily closed for in-person s
The Tahoe Chamber’s GO Local & Win Holiday Contest rewarded residents for spending locally during the holiday season in a time when small businesses needed it most.