friends at p and g and low s. perfect day 46th and sixth avenue. maybe visiting from wanetca; 69 degrees going for a high of 88. it s going to be hot today. ainsley: but it s friday. steve: three hours away from saturday for us. brian: sometimes we have bands on they don t sound exactly like they do on the album. jimmie allen, that s exactly how he sounds through his rehearsal sounds exactly like you just heard him on his video with the perfect studio recording. what a voice he has. ainsley: you have an ear for music. you can tell the difference. brian: everyone in my family does except for me. i was asked to quit. ainsley: your parents were honest with you. some of those parents on american idol. brian: my dad, i used to play the clarinet. my dad would say what song are you trying to play? ainsley: mary had a little lamb. brian: bad enough my brother was a better athlete but when he was better at music i almost quit, gift the world. steve: did you want
u.p.s. workers as well as the entire u.s. economy especially the retail sector which is in the middle of a key stretch right now. u.p.s. and teamsters say they have reached a tentative deal on a new contract for about 330,000 u.p.s. employees who were prepared to walk out next week. this is good, this is a start. reporter: those workers need to ratify the deal to avoid a work stoppage that would hit in the middle of the back to school shopping season which the national retail federation estimates will generate $41.5 billion in spending. we re obviously in the middle of back to school, stocks are ready. heading in to holiday, we know retailers are already in a good place with inventory and thinking ahead. reporter: and consumers adapted too shopping early to find deals and get what they want. there is a lot of tools out there. we know consumers have become
parents face the most expensive back-to-school shopping season in date $74 billion with a b expected to be sent on college supplies. i believe it lifestyle expert carrie reilly is here to save big with items that should be on everybody s list. what do we have here? this looks comfortable. first of all i want to say we all are looking for ways to say i feel like mariah carey. big ticket items, laptops. i like to set a deal alert first dip. flick deals.net. put in what you want and come back with a deal alert that comes into your text messaging, tell you where can you get it with the cheapest prices. big social platform for shoppers. that s my first big tip of big items. first up, this is happy nation.com. i know aren t these just adorable? this is for tweens ages 8 through 146789 the colors are bold. they have got everything on there. matching different sets. all pieces on this website are
find out more about our commitment at phoenix.edu. back to school, brought to you by university of phoenix. get career relevant education at university of phoenix. the dog days of august are, of course, prime season for back to school shopping, but the surge in covid-19 cases fueled by the delta variant has people anxious about visiting stores. some supplies, most in demand, are now harder to find, but retailers project record spending still. so what is going on here? cnn s vanessa yurkevich is with us with that. what is going on? national retail federation is projecting this record-breaking back to school shopping season, but they re also reporting that parents have only done about 50% of their back to school shopping. so they have a little bit of a ways to go.
and now with concerns over this delta variant, we re looking at a lot of chaos that could be happening at the last minute in this back to school shopping season. calculators, colored pencils, graph paper. reporter: these school supplies are being bundled and sent to children in need. but the items here are on most kids back to school list. and this month is peak shopping season. one expected to break records. we re expecting record-breaking spending for both back to school and college this year. reporter: parents are projected to spend $37 billion this year, up 3 billion from last year and the highest in a decade. a lot of this is centered around families and students expecting classes to take place in person. and they re spending more because of that. okay. reporter: but not at kneellies in los angeles. owner jared kneelly is celebrating 50 years in business