Dick’s Sporting Goods and Foot Locker are getting ready for the holiday season by bolstering its staff by approximately 14,000 seasonal employees this year.

The retailer noted that it will host its eighth-annual “National Signing Day” on Wednesday, Oct. 22, marking the start of its push for holiday hiring. Over 9,100 employees will be hired to support Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dick’s House of Sport, and Public Lands locations, while over 500 additional teammates will be hired for Going, Going, Gone! locations nationwide, the company noted.

This number is up from last year’s hiring event, which sought to hire 8,000 seasonal employees.

And at Dick’s newly acquired Foot Locker business, the retail chain is slated to add approximately 4,750 employees across Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker,

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