{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_stucf7apm5lkfesqvtfq","title":"Holiday shoppers setting budgets, planning earlier","title_en":null,"outlets":2,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/holiday-shoppers-setting-budgets-planning-earlier-stucf7apm5","count":2,"items":[{"id":"n_5wg2hq23igozx4zgm6ia","seq":1424422,"kind":"article","title":"US shoppers plan earlier holiday spending, PayPal says","url":"https://e-commerce.news/story/us-shoppers-plan-earlier-holiday-spending-paypal-says","published":"2026-10-02T20:00:00Z","seen":"2026-10-02T20:51:07Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"e-commerce.news","name":"e-commerce.news","domain":"e-commerce.news"},"via":"gdelt-gkg-english","authors":["Karen Joy Bacudo"],"entities":[{"id":"Q483959","name":"PayPal","type":"org"}],"story":"st_stucf7apm5lkfesqvtfq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.8700000047683716,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.5299999713897705,"political":0.05999999865889549},{"id":"n_stucf7apm5lkfesqvtfq","seq":1320318,"kind":"article","title":"Holiday shoppers setting budgets, planning earlier","url":"https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/news/holiday-shoppers-setting-budgets-planning-earlier","summary":"Holiday shoppers, facing economic challenges, likely won't spend less this season. What they will change, however, is how they spend. Six in 10 Americans, 58%, are feeling greater financial concern, but 64% still expect to spend the same or more than the 2025 holiday season. In response, shoppers are planning earlier, setting budgets and looking for more ways to get value from each purchase, according to a PayPal \"2026 Holiday Shopping Survey.\" More than half, 58%, plan to…","published":"2026-10-02T10:00:00Z","seen":"2026-10-02T10:24:30Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-retailcustomerexperience-com-800cce","name":"retailcustomerexperience.com","domain":"retailcustomerexperience.com"},"via":"kite-retailcustomerexperience-com-800cce","topics":["retail"],"image":"https://nmgprod.s3.amazonaws.com/media/file/d3/46/6a4a66c85b0faa5dd0130078a22e/cover_image__gwReJL5v__AdobeStock_3897036121.jpeg.360x190_q85_crop_upscale.webp","story":"st_stucf7apm5lkfesqvtfq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.5400000214576721,"category2":"lifestyle-leisure","sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.28999999165534973,"political":0.03999999910593033}]}