Which Companies Are Hiring for the Holidays?

The fourth quarter has become a sort of retail free-for-all where stores try increasingly desperate tactics to lure in customers. From opening on Thanksgiving Day to heavy discounts and aggressive promotions, retailers pull out all the stops.

That makes sense because the importance of the period seems to grow each year. In 2017, early predictions from Deloitte show that total holiday sales, excluding automobiles and gasoline, will reach  $1.04 to $1.05 trillion between November and January, up from $1 trillion last year. And while the digital portion of overall sales has grown, e-commerce sales will only account for $111 to $114 billion of that total -- an 18-21% increase over $93.8 billion in 2016.

Servicing all of those sales requires workers. In Q4, really toward the end of Q3 in September, many retail and retail-adjacent companies have traditionally hired a lot of people. This list will expand as the season gets closer, but there are a lot of jobs out there in a market that's already near historically high employment rates.

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Source: Fool.com