by Mike Duff | Sep 16, 2022 | Retail Articles
Consumers continued to spend in August despite inflation as more jobs and higher wages helped ease the pressures associated with rising prices, according to the National Retail Federation. The United States Census Bureau has announced that overall retail sales in...
by Mike Duff | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Economic growth in the United States has slowed, but it still isn’t clear if the nation is in a recession, National Retail Federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz asserted in a monthly NRF review. The emergence of conflicting data on whether the U.S. economy grew or...
by Mike Duff | Aug 18, 2022 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Core retail sales, as calculated by the National Retail Federation, rose in July as consumers kept shopping, NRF reported. NRF’s calculation of retail sales is based on U.S. Census Bureau figures, but it excludes automobile dealers, gasoline stations and...
by Mike Duff | Aug 9, 2022 | Retail Articles
After a record-setting spring, imports at the major container ports across the United States should slow significantly for the remainder of the year, but 2022 still looks to see a net gain in container flow over 2021 according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report...
by Mike Duff | Aug 8, 2022 | Retail Articles
The National Retail Federation’s Hot 25 list, developed with market research and consulting firm Kantar, and analyzing 2021 sales results, gives an indication of which storerunners made initial progress in emerging from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, any...
