Fewer shoppers turned out for Thanksgiving-weekend deals, retail group says. Here’s why.

The five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday saw fewer shoppers than a year ago, a major retail-industry group said Tuesday, due in part to the later timing of the holiday this year and an avalanche of deals through October.

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