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Welcome back, as the busy holiday season gets underway, an onslaught of orders and bad weather across the country could mean delayed deliveries. nbc's chris clackum has the details, excuse me, that an american shopper should be aware of. >> reporter: the delivery services all promise to do the best they can around the holidays. >> the explosive growth of e-commerce in general has really shifted shopping patterns. it's our peak season. it's peak shopping season, and therefore it's peak shipping season. >> we're making sure that we have appropriate staffing and we'll be ready to deliver everybod...

Out with your stuff. you pay your bill through the app. the stores won't have many employees, which keeps costs lower than traditional grocery stores. the first store in seattle where amazon is headquartered. it is only open to amazon employees. the public will shop at it early next year. i will give you $100 if you can tell me what a deep learning technology. >> twitter told me it is consumer research on you. they learn about you by your shopping patterns. i think it is a probe. that's it for us. i'm alison kosik. >> i'm john berman. president-elect trump announces another cabinet pick. "ne...

Have the receipt you can return something unless you're a chronic returner. >> is it this worth them having this snoopability on them having this information and storing it, for this 1% of people. >> 9% of merchandise is returned. something like 9% or 10% of all merchandise is returned. >> storing information and giving it to a third party? >> i once did a story about how your information is stored in something like 5,000 different locations. your social security number, your driver's license. so we're obviously giving this information so freely. retailers make so much money analyzing that kin...

If they have this and it tracks my shopping patterns and makes my shopping experience better in the future, i'm good. >> eric: that is the way they sell it. we'll watch the shopping patterns. this is so they can make sure you don't rip stuff up. >> andrea: this discriminates against people like me who shop a lot i'm on camera more than someone who doesn't shop. this is scary but it happens every day with people's purchasing habit online. they are mining our data. this time it's information. they sell it. >> greg: i have an interesting question. >> dana: oh. >> greg: let's say you are a strange...

>> the american economy has created in the private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row. that's nearly three million new jobs in all. more than half a million over the last four months. so we need to keep that growth going. >> there are some new signs of life in the u.s. job market. with a strong showing in november that caught a lot of the analysts by surprise. the labor department says employers added 120,000 jobs helping push down the unemployment rate from 9% in october to 8.6%. that's the lowest level in almost three years. but there's more to it than meets the eye. lisa ...