Target is planning on hiring nearly 100,000 employees for the holiday season, like past two years, and offer discounts for the competitive shopping period as early as October, Reuters’ Ananya Mariam Rajesh reports. The plan comes against the backdrop of predictions that sales growth during the crucial holiday period in the United States could be just half of what it was last year due to higher prices denting consumer spending and worries of a recession, the author notes.
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