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The 2020 holiday buying season is expected to be like no other: An avalanche of ecommerce deliveries, merchants running promotions earlier than ever, and tight crowd controls on Black Friday.Why it matters: Retailers desperately need the revenue from this critical time of year — and they fear that overwhelmed package-delivery services will leave their customers…

UPDATE: It's been a few short months since beauty retailers have slowly started reopening across the country, and while makeup sales have continued to plummet amid the pandemic — seeing an overall decline of 52 percent in the category, according to NPD data — shopping as a whole is still going strong. It just looks…

Popular kids' clothing store The Children's Place is closing around 625 brick-and-mortar US locations over the next 20 months. According to a conference-call transcription about the company's 2020 earnings, reps for The Children's Place said the COVID-19 outbreak "significantly increased" its original closing plans, as ecommerce sales have picked up since the pandemic began. The…