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A Late Gift to Brick and Mortar?

Traditional retail may have been given a late Christmas gift from, of all places, UPS.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on December 27, 2013

As nearly everyone has reported over the last month, it was a challenging holiday for brick-and-mortar retail, with a short season, bad weather somewhere in the country every weekend in December, and physical and cyberspace security issues possibly scaring some shoppers off. But traditional retail may have been given a late Christmas gift from, of all places, UPS. The world’s largest package delivery company failed to meet an undisclosed number of December 24 delivery deadlines, even for items ordered weeks in advance, said the New York Times and other reports. 

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