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The hunt for deals begins.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore and for David Bruncaccio. Black Friday still brings

more shoppers into stores than any other day of the year. This year, though, it comes at a time when

surveys show consumers are anxious. Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has more on how things are shaping up.

The National Retail Federation

predicts holiday sales for November and December will rise around 4% from 2024 levels and

surpass $1 trillion for the first time ever. Kinshuk Jareth teaches marketing at Columbia Business School.

The unemployment rate right now is at about 4.4%.

People actually have jobs, and this is the holiday season.

But he says there are also contradictory signals coming from consumers.

Sentiment is at a near all-time low from

high prices that people are facing, his economic uncertainty.

This will be a K-shaped holiday shopping season, says retail advisor Marshall Cohen at Sircana.

The upper income driving the growth, the middle income starting to show some signs of vulnerability,

and the lower income dropping since January.

He says lower and middle income consumers will be laser focused on finding value, pursuing

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