With retailers employing strategies to make the last few days up to Christmas lucrative, Salesforce reported global online sales for the 2024 holiday season from November 1 to December 15 reached $849 billion, up 4% year-over-year. Although the gains so far this...
Data released by the United States Census Bureau indicated solid retail sales continued as the holiday season officially got underway in November, according to the National Retail Federation. In commenting on the Census Bureau data, NRF noted overall retail sales in...
Coresight Research’s annual year-ahead outlook concludes a substantial proportion of retailers will move toward a unified strategy supporting seamless transitions connecting shopper touch points while leveraging emergent technology in consumer service and...
Market research company Numerator reported 80% of Christmas celebrators plan to purchase gifts, with gift cards topping the list of most likely gift purchases and home goods coming in fourth. Key results of Numerator survey: 57% of shoppers said they would spend the...
Right around 157.2 million consumers plan to shop on the last Saturday before Christmas, Super Saturday, according to an annual survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, up from 141.9 million on the date in 2023. The total...
