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>> matt rivers, thank you. all that black friday hype. the deals are still there. retailers rolling out new deals ahead of christmas weekend. saturday was what the retail folks call super saturday. more than 155 million people said they would shop for holiday gifts. that makes super saturday busier than black friday. you can credit procrastination. >> don't know about that. >> only 10% of shoppers are finished. retailers are looking to finish strong after a solid first half. sales jumped 3.8% in november. online jumped 11%. how will you get the packages? fed ex and u.p.s.? they are handling ...

Important point because people don't like doing returns online. so they're a pain and you don't want to go to fed ex. they hate doing it. and then they eye something else maybe they didn't notice online and they're making an exchange instead of a return and they'll come back. >> so true. how many times have you returned something, you think you're going to leave with a credit and you leave spending double what you were in for. >> stacey, what about events? other things you can do in a store that you can't do online? >> it's such a great question because this is where small local retailers can ...

December 26th will ultimately rank as the third busiest day of the year for store traffic. national retail federation survey reveals 47% of holiday shoppers do plan to shop in stores this week. 43% online. discounts, of course, and returns are among the big incentives. many americans make shopping those first days after christmas a tradition just as much as shopping the days around thanksgiving and a lot of it is to take advantage of the big deals. >> -- especially at your door, with a lot of deliveries still coming with online sales. fed ex had their own problems with inclement weather across...

And back to our original subject. people are spending more and more on line. and that has to hurt brick and mortar stores and they shut down, that means empty commercial space and that could hurt the economy. >> greg, i am from new york. and in manhattan, you you can see a hot of empty of commercial space. that is blocks long of places that was existing. >> it will have hessretailers going forward. what i see on ups and fed ex's to get the shipments to where they needed to go. and the traffic there picked significantly.

The pope's christmas celebrat n celebrations continue with a noon blessing saturday and mass sunday. fed-ex scrambling to increase it's staffing and announced it will deliver packages friday and opened express offices around the country so people can pick up gifts themselves, blaming delayed shipments on rough weather in a last minute surge of holiday shopping. now, back to "the kelly file special". >> one of your core principles seems to be government should stay out of it and you do not believe in what you call corporate welfare. explain that. >> well corporate welfare i think is a disaste...