The National Retail Federation’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led...
In today’s top news, Biden is bringing in the FTC’s Rohit Chopra to lead the CFPB, and Jet.com Founder Marc Lore is retiring from Walmart....
Despite the ongoing pandemic, retail holiday sales were 8.3 percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, surprising even the National Retail Federation (NRF). The 8.3...
Like so many other things that have changed in our lives over the past seven months, Halloween is changing as well. But even though COVID-19...
The grim reality of erratic consumer spending patterns has changed back-to-school sales projections. At a time when the season should be in full swing, many...
Back-to-school sales will set a record this year. The issue is whether it’s a record on the positive or negative side of the ledger, because...
Back-to-school shopping is normally one of the most consistently positive times for U.S. retailers. Parents and educators descend upon stores en masse, snapping up folders,...
The retail industry is facing its first sales event of the pandemic with the coming of back-to-school sales. And while some of the sales projections...
Parents are preparing to shell out a record amount of money this year on back-to-school supplies, with computers topping the list amid signs that neither...