Target plans to hire 100,000 seasonal workers for the holidays and start deals early

Target announced Thursday that it volition prosecute 100,000 seasonal workers for the holidays and commencement offering markdowns the archetypal week of October.

The institution said the caller workers volition beryllium hired aft existing Target workers are fixed a accidental to acceptable their vacation shifts. Target hired the aforesaid fig of workers for the 2021 buying season, aft hiring 130,000 the erstwhile year. Starting wages scope betwixt $15 and $24 an hour.

Walmart, meanwhile, said this week that it plans to prosecute 40,000 workers for the holidays, acold less than the 150,000 it added last year.

After struggling with labour shortages past year, retailers much precocious person been forced to connection steep markdowns to determination excess inventory. In its astir caller net report, Target saw quarterly nett autumn astir 90% arsenic it slashed prices to pull buyers.

Target besides said Thursday that it volition statesman its Target Deal Day promotions earlier than successful past years, with markdowns opening Oct. 6. Shoppers besides tin instrumentality vantage of Target's price-matching programme from aboriginal October until Dec. 24. 

Despite the aboriginal deals, Target and different retailers whitethorn not get a large boost this vacation season. Forecasts for vacation income this twelvemonth person been modest, with immoderate estimates predicting maturation of 1% to 3% from 2021 erstwhile stripping retired the effect of inflation.