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Happy Holiday Shopping
Andrew Mantis
November 15, 2022
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?
The Robin Report
November 2, 2022
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
Adam Levine-Weinberg
October 30, 2022
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
Adam Levine-Weinberg
September 6, 2022
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
Catherine Schetting Salfino
August 21, 2022
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
Adam Levine-Weinberg
July 6, 2022
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
RoxAnna Sway
June 12, 2022
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
Adam Levine-Weinberg
June 7, 2022
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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