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The Big Cart

Which giant grows transactions fastest over Labor Day weekend?

Labor Day is the first big sale weekend of the fall and the four largest retailers in America all run it hard. Online against warehouse against supercenter against bullseye, ranked on whose registers grow fastest versus last year.

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Amazon
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Costco
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Target
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Walmart

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Market opens soon

A
Amazon
C
Costco
T
Target
W
Walmart

Activity

Market opens soon

Activity begins when trading opens.

MARKET WINDOW

Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2026, compared against last year's Labor Day weekend, Saturday, August 30 to Monday, September 1, 2025.

DEFINITIONS & SCOPE

Transaction count is the total number of verified purchase transactions under each merchant's descriptor during the window, all channels. Whole Foods bills under its own descriptor and is not part of Amazon for this market. Growth is the percentage change in each merchant's transaction count versus the prior-year Labor Day window.

RESOLUTION METHOD

The merchant with the highest year-over-year transaction count growth rate wins. Resolution requires a minimum of 10,000 qualifying transactions per merchant. In the event of a tie, all positions are refunded in full.

DATA SOURCE

Powered by verified transaction data from American Spend's oracle. Anonymized, aggregated, and secured. Real, objective, verified proof of spend sourced from a representative sample of consumer spending.

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