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“6 Essential Strategies to Make Your Holiday Creative Stand Out” by Polly Wong via Total Retail

by admin | Nov 23, 2021 | Holiday, Retail Strategy

In case you missed it, the holidays are in full swing. Media outlets have started reporting on the top toys for the season, Amazon.com is moving up Black Friday to start now (!), and the threat of supply chain snarls and shipping delays are...

“ICSC: 86% of consumers will shop over Thanksgiving weekend” by Tatiana Walk-Morris via Retail Dive

by admin | Nov 22, 2021 | Holiday, Statistics

image by Libby Penner Dive Brief: As shoppers prepare for the busiest shopping weekend of the year, a new report from ICSC predicts that consumers will spend $491 on average between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, bringing in a total of over $108 billion for the...

“How To Prepare For Small Business Saturday Nov 27” by Bob Phibbs (The Retail Doctor)

by admin | Nov 7, 2021 | Holiday, Resources, Retail Strategy

Small businesses have survived the judgment made about them as “non-essential” and now there is a groundswell of support for them this Small Business Saturday that didn’t exist just a few years ago. We collectively woke up and realized it really mattered that we chose...

“NRF PREDICTS HIGHEST HOLIDAY RETAIL SALES ON RECORD” via Industry Resources

by admin | Oct 23, 2021 | Holiday, Industry, Retail Strategy

Holiday spending has the potential to shatter previous records, as the National Retail Federation today forecast that holiday sales during November and December will grow between 8.5 percent and 10.5 percent over 2020 to between $843.4 billion and $859...