Sentences with phrase «holiday spending forecast»

(Bloomberg View)-- It's become a favorite holiday tradition around these parts: wait for the National Retail Federation annual holiday spending forecast each October, then write a few choice words about why their methodology is awful and...

PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) recently released their 2016 holiday spending forecast — and one of the areas they took a look at was how much people plan to spend on their pets this holiday season.

Not exact matches

The National Retail Federation has forecast that holiday retail spending, excluding cars, gas and restaurants, would rise 3.6 % to 4 % this holiday season and could total $ 682 billion in November and December.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

Big spending and lower - than - expected forecast for the holiday season put a cloud over the e-commerce giant's shares.

NRF's forecast follows those from Deloitte and AlixPartners, which call for holiday retail sales increasing between 3.8 and 4.5 percent, thanks to higher online spending and a tightening labor market.

Follow this strategy every holiday, and it's easy to forecast where you may be spending much of your post-career lifetime: in Wal - Mart, as a greeter.

Judging by early forecasts, the 2012 holiday season might turn out to be the strongest in years, with preliminary surveys showing that consumers plan to spend more on gifts this year than they did in 2011.