by Mike Duff | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured News, Retail Articles
In a presentation at NRF 2022: Retail’s Big Show, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry revealed the five retail trends she believes are critical to Best Buy and the market in which it competes. The National Retail Federation reported in a blog post that, as part of a session...
by Mike Duff | Jan 7, 2022 | Retail Articles
Economic activity in the services sector, including retail, grew in December for the 19th month in a row, with the Institute for Supply Management Purchasing Managers Index exceeding 60% for the 10th consecutive month, well above the 50% line between growth and...
by Mike Duff | Dec 14, 2021 | Retail Articles
Looking ahead to 2022, the Institute for Supply Management forecasts that economic improvement in the United States will continue for both the manufacturing and services sector. Based on a December survey of purchasing and supply management executives, the December...
by Mike Duff | Dec 7, 2021 | Retail Articles
Economic activity in the services sector grew in November for the 18th month in a row, with the Services PMI setting a record for the fifth time in 2021 and retail gaining. Polled by the Institute for Supply Management, purchasing and supply executives in the United...
by Peter Giannetti | Nov 22, 2021 | HomePage Views
When retailers and malls started opening on Thanksgiving a few years ago, I wrote that despite some blowback, consumers would determine whether the trend would last. While consumers generally voted favorably enough with their feet and wallets to lend some merit to the...
