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Deloitte forecasts U.S. holiday e-commerce of $316.1 billion to $318.9 billion for November 2026 through January 2027, up 7.5% to 8.4%. Total retail is projected to grow 4% to 4.8% to about $1.7 trillion. The faster online growth rate is a planning input for fulfillment staffing and site readiness.

The holiday quarter starts in about two weeks. And for e-commerce companies, it’s the three months that matter most. Consider Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP). The e-commerce software company earned $631 million of operating income in last year’s fourth quarter — 43% of its operating income for all of 2025.

LOS ANGELES, CA, Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Retail e-commerce is increasingly operating like an endless relay race: as one major shopping moment winds down, forward-thinking sellers are already sprinting toward the next. Data released by e-commerce AI growth engineStoreClaw reveals that sellers are moving away from fragmented, manual workflows as they prepare for…