SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day is only a day away and stores are feeling the push.<\/p>\n
At the Viewmont mall in Scranton, retailers are feeling the last second push to get mom a good gift. Walking around you can see deals on gifts usually seen on Mother\u2019s Day and in JCPenney, they\u2019re running promotions in all of their stores\u2019 beauty and jewelry sections, and they say they\u2019ve seen a bump in sales and foot traffic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always capitalize on major holidays,” said JCPenney store manager Mercedes Garay. “We started seeing the increase since Thursday, you know, pour store really does well in later on during the week into the weekend. So yes, we just see a nice little uptick in traffic.<\/p>\n
Viewmont mall said they\u2019ve seen increased attendance for the last few days citing, in a statement, <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing customers become more value conscious this Mother\u2019s Day, but they still want to celebrate in a special way. Shoppers are looking for gifts that feel personal, while also taking advantage of promotions, dining options, and one-stop convenience at the mall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day is only a day away and stores are feeling the push.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-188250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}