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It’s a truth that retailers have lived by for decades: To have a successful year, you have to have a successful holiday shopping season. And sales figures tend to bear this out. While it can vary widely by category, across the board a retailer can expect 20 percent of annual sales to come from the holiday shopping season. As featured in Quirks Marketing Research Media. This begs a few questions. First, are retailers making the most (as the song says) of the most wonderful time....