by Mallika Mitra | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured, Retail Sales
Blogger Kayla Fathers reaches 11,000 Instagram followers with posts on fashion and shopping tips. She has grown up with digital devices at her fingertips, but Fathers and her friends prefer heading to stores rather than shopping online. “I like to try on things before...
by Karishma Vanjani | Mar 25, 2019 | Economy, Featured, Retail Sales
Retail sales stabilized in January but didn’t rebound from the surprisingly low December numbers, signalling the economy is off to a sluggish start in the first quarter. Overall sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in January, pushed up by purchases made...
by Karishma Vanjani | Feb 25, 2019 | Economy, Retail Sales
Retail sales saw their sharpest decline in more than nine years in December, suggesting slower economic growth amid the government shutdown and stock market turmoil. Sales fell by 1.2 percent in the final month of the year, closing out the holiday season on a weak...
by Carmen Reinicke | Apr 15, 2018 | Economy, Retail Sales
On Monday, the United States Census Bureau will release the advance monthly retail sales report, which shows consumer spending on retail trade for the month of March. The median analyst expectation is a 0.4 percent increase in consumer spending, to round out the first...
by Milana Vinn | May 16, 2017 | Economy, Jobs, Newest, Retail Sales
Over the past five years, the U.S. created more than a million retail jobs. Now many of them are going to disappear and the workers who are jettisoned will face difficult career decisions. Retail jobs declined by 50,000 in the past year and the number is almost...
by Milana Vinn | Apr 11, 2017 | Economy, Newest, Retail Sales
The Commerce Department issues its monthly retail sales report Friday and it should show that consumers kept their wallets closed in March, taking a breather from strong spending in previous months. Snow storms, delay in tax refunds and slow wage growth affected last...