Holiday e-commerce sales continue to set records. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), which is the leader in e-commerce sales by far as a single company, is likely to be among the major beneficiaries of the trend.…
The cabinet in India has set new rules that would allow large outside retailers like Walmart (NYSE: WMT) to own 51% of local multiproduct retail establishments. But it appears that parliament will turn down this plan.…
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) was an unusual disappointment with earnings. The company is still growing rapidly, but not quite at the same blistering pace as before. All markets mature and it may seem…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will start an e-commerce business to compete with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). Amazon is the devil to struggling bricks-and-mortar companies that want more online sales. But Google eventually may be just as…
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) is getting blasted this morning on its guidance after earnings. Nothing can last forever, maybe not even the endless exponential growth of yoga. The yoga and exercise themed retailer…
The Monday following this year’s Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history. According to research firm comScore, spending reached $1.25 billion, an increase of 22% from…
Virtually every estimate of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales growth puts the improvement in the double digits. That is even true with the traditionally slow-growing bricks-and-mortar sector. But economists are worried that the…
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) is expected to report earnings Tuesday. If there is one barometer on what the 1% are willing to spend money on, Tiffany may be it in the sector of…
The holiday shopping period has begun with a level of success that few experts expected. U.S. consumers apparently have ignored the threat of a financial catastrophe in Europe, ongoing unemployment, a slowing U.S. economy and the…
comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR) reported U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 25 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.7 billion has been spent online, marking a 15-percent…
Americans apparently disregarded the state of the economy, the failure of Congress to agree on a deficit package, unemployment, and low home values. ShopperTrak reported that Black Friday retail sales rose 6.6% to $11.4…
With one holiday down and another on deck, the coming week offers something of a breather. Most quarterly earnings are out already, but there are several due next week that could be interesting. The…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has waited for years to gain the ability to have 100% ownership in a large retail company in India. It should be careful what it wishes for. It has failed in its efforts…
Many stores are planning to open early on Black Friday in an effort to get a jump on holiday shopping, but spending increases are not expected to rise more than 3% or so. In…
A new study by the National Federation of Retailers makes a prediction that runs counter to almost every other forecast of holiday shopping activity. The data shows that the number of people who say they “definitely”…