{"id":204586,"date":"2026-01-14T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204586"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:57:15","slug":"popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204586","title":{"rendered":"Popular gift retailer shuts stores, cuts jobs before holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the economy struggles, people move their spending focus to items they need rather than items they want. They may violate that idea with affordable indulgences like a Starbucks coffee, or maybe a favored snack treat, but overall, they get more careful with their spending. Americans are clearly &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/retail\/popular-gift-retailer-yankee-candle-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the economy struggles, people move their spending focus to items they need rather than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204586-popular-gift-retailer-shuts-stores-cuts-jobs-before-holidays-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}