Has the cost to serve Thanksgiving dinner "under Trump" dropped 25% since 2024 "under Biden"? A post from the White House says that, but the post compares the 2025 Thanksgiving dinner promo from Walmart to the one offered in

Walmart is turning up the heat for the 2025 holiday shopping season with a sweeping deployment of artificial-intelligence tools across its app, stores, supply chain, and customer-service operations. It’s a bet on relatively new technology that could help it edge out rivals in a fiercely competitive retail landscape.

Shoppers across the country are facing a new reality at their local Walmart stores. The familiar self-checkout lanes that once promised quick and convenient shopping experiences are disappearing, restricted,

Butterball said in its 2025 Thanksgiving Outlook that 89 percent of Americans planned to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with a group of nine people. Only 28 percent of consumers expected inflation to change their plans this year, down from 53 percent in 2024, while more than half won’t make any changes at all, Butterball said in the report.

Winder notes that Amazon has used this strategy effectively for several years, and so has Target. He also points out that catalogs can be more effective than emails because they sit out in plain sight, whereas emails tend to get deleted, filed away, or ignored.