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Retailers are making their lists and checking them twice,

trying to find out just how much inventory they should stockpile ahead of the next administration.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

Music In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams in for Kai Rizdahl.

It's Christmas, Wednesday, December the 25th.

Good to have you along.

The holiday shopping season has been, by several measures, a pretty normal one.

Businesses started bringing in their holiday inventory in mid-October, according to the most recent logistics managers index,

and consumers bought a lot of that inventory in November, according to spending data out last week from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

These normal seasonal

patterns are a big relief for businesses, since many have spent the last few years trying

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