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Strong Final Holiday Sales Week Surpasses 2021

December 29, 2022
By Michael Cader

As anticipated, the inclusion of an extra pre-holiday shopping day helped to lift the final week of holiday sales above the same closing week from last year. Notably, it’s the first and only week in the holiday sales stretch in which 2022 sales outpaced the same week from 2021. (Indeed, the last time a 2022 sale week was ahead of the comparable week from a year ago was in late August.) According to NPD Bookscan, week 51 sales for the period ending December 24 saw print sales of 29.8 million units, versus 27.1 million units a year ago and 23.3 […]

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