To find a complete list of the 2011 Thanksgiving Day Shopping Store Hours, click here >> That one sentence takes care of a majority of the U.S consumers who Googled “Thanksgiving Day shopping” or “Thanksgiving store hours” today. It is thought that more than ever before, American shoppers are ready ...
Desperation retailing arrived early for the U.S. retail industry this year, as retailers unapologetically began stocking and selling for the holiday shopping season before the back-to-school selling season was officially over. Because U.S. retailers are disrespectfully preempting Halloween by moving the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season to September, ...
Five of the top ten green brands in the U.S. are companies with significant retail operations, according to the 2011 ImagePower Global Green Brands list released this week. Whole Foods (WFMI), Trader Joe’s, Apple (AAPL), Starbucks (SBUX), and the Walt Disney Company (DIS) are all perceived to be the greenest ...
When talking about unemployment, underemployment, and the job market in general, “seniors” is the word of the day. This month more than 3.1 million high school seniors will graduate and start looking for either permanent jobs to support themselves or summer jobs to help them pay for college. At the ...
A new study released recently by Forrester and GSI Commerce has concluded that social media has almost no influence on online purchasing behavior. Because the 2010 holiday shopper behavior analyzed for this study revealed that there is little direct connection between a click-through from a social media site and an ...
The “final four” voting for the “Worst Company in America” is being conducted this week by Consumerist.com. Even though 11 of the original 32 contenders for the Worst Company title were either retail industry companies, or have significant retail operations as part of their business, the only company with retail ...
The results of a new study on customer experience, service, and satisfaction released this week revealed that Amazon (AMZN), Kohl’s (KSS), Costco (COST), and Lowe’s (LOW) are the retail companies that are delivering the best customer experiences, in the opinion of their customers. In fact, the U.S. retail industry as ...
If the Oscars are synonymous with fashion trends and style, and jcpenney (JCP) has been the only retail sponsor of the Oscars for ten years, is jcpenney also automatically associated with fashion trends and style? It’s a mathematical formula that jcpenney has seemingly believed in as Oscar’s only retail sponsor ...
The results of the Daytona 500 gave a double payoff to one U.S. retail industry company when the two NASCAR drivers it sponsored both ended the race as losers. If either Dave Blaney or Brian Keselowski had managed to finish as a top 10 driver in the 2011 Daytona 500, ...
The results of the Daytona 500 gave a double payoff to one U.S. retail industry company when the two NASCAR drivers it sponsored both ended the race as losers. If either Dave Blaney or Brian Keselowski had managed to finish as a top 10 driver in the 2011 Daytona 500, ...
Scores for the sports part of Super Bowl XLV are easily interpreted, but for the advertising part of the 2011 Super Bowl event the winners are not as clear. If the U.S. retail industry measures Super Bowl XLV by its biggest advertising bet payoff, its non-attendance strategies, and its new ...
The annual “Best Companies to Work For” list from Fortune Magazine always spurs interest in the U.S. retail industry – mostly with recently unemployed temporary holiday workers and with people who work for retail chains that prove often that they are not the “best” employers. It was intended that this ...
When looking forward to 2011, retail experts included retail technology and innovation in their predictions more often than anything else as a driver of success for the U.S. retail industry. It’s not just about having the most cutting edge mobile, social, and digital technology, it’s how U.S. retailers deliver on ...
The numbers, statistics, year-over-year comparisons, and editorial comments reported about the 2010 Christmas holiday shopping season were upbeat, bullish, and sometimes downright exuberant. But the holiday retail cheer finally wore off when the December 2010 same store sales figures were calculated, reported, and many unrealistically high expectations were unmet. The ...
After the Christmas holiday shopping season is over, the after-Christmas shopping challenges begin. While most major U.S. retail industry chains are still reeling from record-high sales, a record number of gift card redemptions and merchandise returns are expected to keep temporary holiday retail employees busy well into January. Clearance sales ...
The U.S. Retail Industry history books will mark 2010 as the year when a new event was officially added to the retail promotion calendar – Pre-Black Friday. What Pre-Black Friday lacks in sexy branding, U.S. retailers will hope it makes up for in wallet share, or more precisely, pre-emptive Christmas ...
The best U.S. retail industry signals from October same store sales figures came from the retailers who reported losses over losses and gains over gains. Buckle (BKE), Gap (GPS), Hot Topic (HOTT), Zumiez (ZMZ), and Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) had individually significant stories to tell in October. Most industry-wide conclusions ...
