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Happy Holiday Shopping
It’s no secret the holiday season is a key sales period for retail, travel, and many other industries, so much so that these sales can ...
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How Has Inflation Affected Consumer Spending?
Across the United States, prices have been increasing across all industries. In July, inflation stood at 8.5%, down slightly from 9.1% in June -– the ...
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Target’s FAO Schwarz Partnership Is No Game Changer
Target has been one of the biggest winners in the toy business since the 2018 liquidation of Toys”R”Us. The demise of the only sizable national ...
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Even When It Loses, TJX Always Wins
Off-price retail leader TJX faced a big test after the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe in 2020. Like other discretionary retailers, it was forced to ...
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Attracting Consumers in Spite of Inflation
It’s hard to say which is a bigger topic in the daily news: inflation or the blistering weather. One thing for sure is they both ...
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The Share Buyback That Killed Bed Bath & Beyond
When Tritton took the top job in late 2019, the iconic home furnishings destination desperately needed a reinvention. The former Target chief merchant rapidly implemented ...
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A Cogent Economic Review
Christopher Waller, a senior Federal Reserve official, announced on May 30, that he supports the U.S. central bank’s main interest rate to rise to a ...
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Behind Amazon’s Thorny Profitability Problem
To nobody’s surprise, the Covid-19 pandemic gave Amazon a huge market share boost. So far, the ecommerce giant has been able to maintain most of ...
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