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Welcome Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host Chris Held.

I'm joined by Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Ron Gross.

Guys, good to see you as always.

Good to see you Chris.

Coming up a little later in the show, we'll talk markets and movies with Nell Minow.

But guys, we're going to start this week with holiday retail.

The topic that always seems to be one of the top stories, not just for the financial media,

but for the news media in general. Seth Jason, you're a retail guru in the room.

We'll start with you. How crucial is this time of year for retailers?

First of all, where's the love for the turkey imitation?

I worked on that with an actual while turkey.

It got the love of the turkey too, man.

The retail stuff. You're going to see more and hear more about this than it probably deserves.

I don't want to give everyone the impression that this season is not important to retailers

because it's very important, it's typically by far the biggest quarter of the year,

because they've got fixed costs, they sell more stuff, they generate better margins.

So it is very important. But the term Black Friday used to signify

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