JCPenney is on a hiring spree that includes new executives in marketing, brand, trend and design, as well as holiday employees. In a LinkedIn Post, JCPenney welcomed Marisa Thalberg (pictured left) as consulting chief marketing officer. Her experiences include three...
Americans plan to spend big this holiday season, tapping budgets that are 31.7% higher than in 2023, according to the Holiday Shopping Report from JLL. However, how the holiday spend is spread differs by income, JLL noted. The commercial real estate researcher and...
According to Cequence, an API security and bot management firm, freshly mined data revealed a 96% surge in attack traffic targeting retailers occurred during the Labor Day weekend. The data is based on real, anonymized traffic and attack data from the Cequence retail...
Some unique twists will confront retail as the year ends, with Boston Consulting Group’s 2024 Holiday Outlook Survey suggesting that the consumer approach to the season is mixed. Using insights from consumers in the United States and credit card data, the study found...
Retail sales in the 2024 holiday shopping period from November 1 to December 24, excluding automotive results, should increase by 3.2% across all forms of payment, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. Mastercard pointed out early shopping and the calendar will play...
