Retail Customers Embrace Online Shopping
Retail sales for the holiday season just behind us rose about 4.8%, compared with sales during the 2011 holiday shopping season. Online sales rose by more than 14%, and that ...Read Full Story »
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Retail Hiring at Six-Year High
Retailers employed additional 728,300 workers between October 1st and December 31st of the past holiday season according to a report from consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm ...Read Full Story »
Retail Sales Are Soft in December
The holiday shopping season got off to a fast start, but concluded with a whimper and not the anticipated bang. It appears that the booming start pulled sales forward and ...Read Full Story »
Customer Satisfaction with E-commerce Unchanged
Customer satisfaction research firm ForeSee released its Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index for this year, and the overall score for online retailers was 78 on a 100-point scale, identical with last ...Read Full Story »
Holiday Season Buying Stalls
Traffic at retail stores is down 4.4% through December 15th according to the latest data from ShopperTrak. The research firm also noted in its report out yesterday that holiday sales ...Read Full Story »
Confidence in Technology Rises to All-time High
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said this morning that its index of consumer technology expectations rose 9.3 point in December, lifting the index to an all-time high of 97.3 since ...Read Full Story »
Online Shoppers Spent $7 Billion Last Week
Online sales for the first 44 days of this year’s holiday shopping season totaled $33.8 billion, up 13% over last year’s total of $30 billion. Last week, shoppers spend nearly ...Read Full Story »
Green Monday Sales Jump 13%
Online spending totaled $1.275 billion on Green Monday (December 10th), up 13% year-over-year according to research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR). For the first 40 days of the holiday shopping ...Read Full Story »
Holiday Season Online Sales Rise 16% So Far
Through the first 18 days of the 2012 holiday shopping season, online sales have risen 16%, from $8.77 billion last year to $10.14 billion this year according to the latest ...Read Full Story »
Retail Group Optimistic About Holidays Sales
The National Retail Federation believes there will be a surge in holiday activity. Its forecast is particularly optimistic in light of worries about the fiscal cliff, an apparent slowing of ...Read Full Story »
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