THE SANTA CLAUS, EVEN AS MALLS STRUGGLES
(CNN) - Retailers looking to get Americans off e-commerce sites and into physical stores this holiday season may be relying on Santa Claus more than ever.
Department stores, such as Kohl's (KSS), have struggled to bring post-Thanksgiving shoppers into their brick-and-mortar locations so far this year. A handful of big-box behemoths, including Walmart (WMT), Target (CBDY) and Best Buy (BBY), gobbled up the lion's share of the record 190 million shoppers in physical stores during the Friday-to-Monday sales rush, according to the National Retail Federation.