The U.S. holiday shopping season is set to begin within the next two to three weeks. This year holiday sales are expected to be very strong. To tap this opportunity, we recommend three online retail stocks with a favorable Zacks Rank. These are: Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, Wayfair Inc. W and Groupon Inc. GRPN. Each of our picks currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Solid Holiday Sales Forecast The Mastercard Economics Institute/SpendingPulse insights projected U.S. retail sales (excluding automobiles and gas) between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 to grow 5.5% year over year. This marked the highest growth since 2021. Online sales and in-store sales are forecast to increase 11% and 3.
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