Christmas and holiday season

  • Firm Predicts Low Holiday Sales

    Firm Predicts Low Holiday Sales

    A management consulting services firm has forecasted that the retail sales in this holiday period will increase at only 2.8% due to unemployment problems, slow growth in disposable income and fiscal fears after the election. The New Canaan, Connecticut based consulting firm released its 11th annual holiday forecast, which predicts the low growth in retail…

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  • Will it be a Grand Black Friday?

    Will it be a Grand Black Friday?

    Multiple surveys that have forecast the sales for Black Friday are predicting that shoppers will turn out in larger numbers this weekend than was the case last year. Black Friday will be an unofficial holiday spending season launch. A Deloitte survey released in Chicago indicated that 60% of respondents said that they planned to do…

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