A former Nordstrom executive is calling on the department store sector to meet the needs of customers and keep pace with technology – or face extinction. In...
As retailers reopen and take stock of new post-pandemic consumer dynamics, the role of industry trade groups is changing. Groups like the National Retail Federation...
The forces closing in on retail have forced its various trade and advocacy groups to press their case in Washington. Among those forces: 2.1 million...
The reopening of retail is bound to portend changes for businesses as well as consumers. The National Retail Federation (NRF) and other groups have released...
Is the retail industry looking at the wrong numbers? It could be. While last week’s 16 percent overall spending drop lit up the headlines and...
The retail bankruptcy watch intensified Tuesday (April 21) as the department store sector was hit by reports of yet another major player looking at that...
There’s $454 billion earmarked for retailers in the vast series of COVID-19 relief legislation passed last week. But none of it will arrive in time...
Retail came up as a big, but very subtle, winner in the economic stimulus package passed by the Senate last night (March 25) in response...
The National Retail Federation wants clarification on the word “essential.” Following a letter on Wednesday (March 18) asking for the federal government to consider the...