Holiday sales rise 3.5% on discounts

... Post. The promotions were the most prevalent since 2008, Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners in New Canaan, Conn., said in an email. "It appears 50% off has been the price of entry this year," Simeon Siegel, a New York-based analyst ...



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