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NOVEMBER 26, 2025 |
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What percentage of US consumers plan to order Thanksgiving dinner for takeout or delivery, according to a PopMenu survey? |
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A) 33% B) 43% C) 53% D) 63% |
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TOP STORY |
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Retailers aren’t waiting for Black Friday to kick off their holiday campaigns. |
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Since October 1, linear TV holiday ad spend reached $475.1 million, up 13.2% YoY, according to iSpot.
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Weekly spending has also climbed steadily, indicating brands are frontloading their budgets to capture demand across all of Q4. |
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IN THE NEWS |
Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Abercrombie & Fitch lift FY outlooks amid resilient spending. A slate of retailers boosted their outlooks following strong Q3 performances, a positive sign as the industry heads into the most important shopping period of the year. Read online |
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ChatGPT rolls out free personalized buying guides to court holiday shoppers. OpenAI introduced a shopping research feature for ChatGPT that builds personalized buying guides based on user queries and past conversations. Read online
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Kohl’s narrows sales drop in Q3, but challenges linger. Kohl’s topped Q3 expectations and raised its outlook, crediting stronger product assortments, better value through promotions, and improved in-store and digital experiences for helping it win back customers. Read online | | | |
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After years of warning advertisers that it would phase out third-party cookies, Google has officially backtracked by abandoning its alternative, the Privacy Sandbox. |
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Google is retiring the suite of privacy tools “in light of their low levels of adoption,” reads an Oct. 17 blog post by Google’s VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez. This news follows Google backing out of its user-choice prompt in April, which itself was a reversal of Google’s plan to fully deprecate cookies. |
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