“The company’s 2015 seasonal hiring plan is essentially flat to previous year”, reads a release.

Macy’s Inc.is not the only major retail store looking to boost its personnel in preparation for the holiday season. “This enhanced staffing allows us to provide additional help to customers, whether they are shopping in stores or online”. 1,600 openings will be dedicated to customer service personnel to cater for the huge number of customers during the holiday season.

Retailers, including Macy’s, are keeping their holiday hiring to roughly last year’s levels or a bit less, despite an early Shoppertrak estimate that holiday spending will see 2.4% growth.

Greater than 1,000 might be employed as help employees throughout the nation for different occasions such because the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the operator of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s shops stated.

“These seasonal positions represent much-needed jobs for America, and they fill an important niche in the employment spectrum”.

Most of these positions are part-time, and have shifts during evenings, weekends or overnight, but can lead to permanent positions.

The retailer is bringing in the seasonal workers for temporary jobs in order to meet increased demand during the busy holidays. “Seasonal employment is often an opportunity to get to know potential future employees and to identify talent that we can recruit as needs arise”, Lundgren said.

Macy’s, Inc., has corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York and employs approximately 166,900 associates, year round.

Elsewhere, retailer Kohl’s Corp. has said it expects to hire more than 69,000 workers, up from 67,000 in the 2014 holiday season.

Macy’s in particular has contended with losing sales to electronics retailers, as consumers move away from department-store items such as home furnishings and clothing, The Journal reports.