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Seasonal hiring will be the same if not worse than last year. That was the not so festive forecast from the employment services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas last week. And it's not surprising with our currently drab consumer climate. The U.S. Commerce Department recently reported anemic retail sales ...

Don't tell the kids in San Francisco, but at least one Santa won't be making the rounds this year -- and it isn't their fault. Rather, it seems, it was just "time" for John Toomey, the Macy's Santa Claus who rose to fame last year after being fired from his Union Square store gig for telling an oft-told, ...

Retailers have learned plenty about the new kind of shopper that has evolved from the current economy. Consequently sales have bounced back -- both in terms of in-store shopping and through the hunt for discounts and sweetened incentives on the Web. Such online discount hunting has been fueled, as of late, by ...

You know their famous red star emblem. You probably shop there either regularly or at least from time to time, and it is practically impossible to not get swept up in the fever of the holidays (that start earlier and earlier each year) without wondering what it is like to work at a large department store like ...

After 20 years as Santa Claus at the Union Square Macy's in San Francisco, John Toomey has been fired, reports Kevin Fagan in the San Francisco Chronicle. This tragic news is resonating around the nation, including being an item in high-profile Gawker. ...

Great news, right: retailers are adding 550,000 to 650,00 jobs this holiday season. The news you need to know, though, is that for each of those openings, there are about 4.7 applicants, estimates Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute. So, how do you make sure you are the one among those 4.7 folks who ...

Last week the number of people filing for unemployment benefits was actually lower than it was the week before, which is a sign that layoffs could be slowing. In the week ending Feb. 27, initial claims numbered 469,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous week's 498,000, according to numbers released by the ...