Retailers are offering faster, cheaper shipping than ever before. Here's what stores including Walmart and Target are offering this year.

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A huge volume of packages will be shipped this holiday season.

• This holiday season, there are plenty of reasons to shop online.
• Target, Amazon, and Walmart are all offering deals on shipping for the holidays.
• Here are the shipping promotions that major retailers are offering for the holidays this year.
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These days, holiday shopping can largely be done from the comfort of your living room.

While many retailers offer in-store doorbusters for the holidays, a lot are offering major shipping promotions for those who order online. And, shipping is getting faster and cheaper on the whole.

Business Insider recently teamed with global technology company Morning Consult to conduct a nationwide survey of American shopping habits during the holiday season and analyzed responses from more than 2,300 adults across household income brackets, political ideologies, gender, and race.

Across all demographics, we found that people expressed a stronger desire to shop online during the holidays as opposed to regular days throughout the year.

From Target to Amazon, here are the shipping promotions that major retailers are offering for the holidays this year.