United Parcel Service Inc plans to hire 100,000 holiday workers, the same number as last year, as a continued shedding of retail jobs hints at a softening in the U.S. consumer economy heading into the all-important Christmas shopping season. The world’s biggest parcel delivery firm is among the first to announce its holiday hiring target, which landed on the heels of a Labor Department report showing continued malaise in retail employment, even as wage growth buoys consumer spending. UPS said it can use the same number of workers as last year because it has invested in technology to automate package sorting and shave miles (km) off delivery routes – but it is paying more to lure those seasonal package sorters, drivers and delivery assistants in a competitive job market.

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