Sentences with phrase «retail spending»

Despite a gloomy economy and high unemployment, the consumer did indeed turn in strong retail spending in 2011.

Global retail spending on AI to reach $ 7.3 billion by 2022.

You also get to earn 1 % cash back on all other retail spends charged to your card.

The city hopes its redevelopment efforts will boost retail spending downtown by residents and tourists alike.

One major Internet retailer spends more than double to deliver than the amount it collects for shipping.

Surprisingly, consumer confidence has had a much weaker relationship with retail spending.

Of all pet - related retail spending, food is the largest category.

The firm is looking for areas that have growing populations and, obviously, income levels to support retail spending.

(Online sales accounted for 6 per cent of retail spending in Canada last year, compared with 9 per cent in the U.S., according to Haywood Securities Inc..)

The agency reported a 3.2 percent year - over-year increase in retail spending during the month of December, versus the 4.6 - percent increase that NRF reported for the month.

With Wal - Mart responsible for 9 % of U.S. retail spending, it's no surprise that there hasn't been major dissent, even from big suppliers like Procter & Gamble.

U.S. online retail spending rose 10 percent to $ 46.5 billion in the November - December 2013 holiday season, according to comScore (SCOR.O).

MUMBAI / BENGALURU, April 18 - Demand for physical gold was lower - than - usual during a key festival in the world's second biggest consumer India as local prices peaked and a cash crunch curbed retail spending.

While Macy's rode the strong consumer spending wave that helped retail spending soar during the holidays, the season brought the first signs that Gennette's efforts to turn what is the largest U.S. department store operator around, as detailed in a recent Fortune feature, may be working.

He named a number of factors, including improving capital investment from business and retail spending from consumers, that he said suggested the economy is continuing to expand — and not, after eight years of recovering from the financial crisis, starting to slip toward another recession.

Retail spending remains subdued following the large increase last year, and commercial construction is weak outside of the boost from public - sector infrastructure spending.

Tax implications aside, the move would be a risky one as it comes at a time of rapidly accelerating growth in online retail spending as Amazon customers in particular increasingly opt for the digital versions of physical products.

And a low oil price can be positive for many, many other sectors, especially when you look at retail spending and input costs to manufacturing.»

Overall spending rose 6.1 percent in December, according to First Data, while retail spending increased by 3.1 percent.

«That was a major part of Canada [in which] retail spending probably would not have been typical in that month,» said TD economist Leslie Preston.

Department store sales helped retail spending rebound sharply in February, but economists aren't getting carried away by the surprisingly strong result.

WA outperformed most states in December's retail spending results, and with an interest rate cut and falling petrol prices, there are hopes of a retail revival.

Western Australian retail spending rose 0.2 per cent month on month in January, to $ 2.8 billion, slightly below the national average of 0.3 per cent.

A recent report by professional services firm Deloitte Access Economics suggests retail spending could be slowly picking up in Western Australia, with recent official data finding sales grew 0.3 per cent in January after seasonal adjustment.

The retailer is considered an economic bellwether, with the company accounting for nearly 10 per cent of nonautomotive retail spending in the U.S.

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.

In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

Shares in Carpetright, which has in recent months issued a series of profit warnings because of weak UK retail spending and what it calls poorly - located outlets, fell 19 percent to 34 pence in early trading on Thursday.

Forrester Research Inc. projects that 10 % of all Canadian retail spending in 2019 will be conducted online, up from 6 % in 2014 and almost equivalent to — on a percentage basis — the 11 % forecasted for the U.S. market.

«J. Crew and other major retailers spend millions of dollars building their brands and making their stores cool, shooting fashionable ads and everything else,» he said.

«However, while economic indicators have improved in several areas, Americans remain somewhat torn between their desire and their ability to spend; the fact remains consumers still have the weight of the economy on their minds, further explaining the complex retail spending environment we are seeing right now.

Measures mobile wallet user engagement by forecasting mobile payments» share of their annual retail spending.

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Those moments often occur around the time that online shopping reaches about 20 percent of total national retail spending in a category, the research firm L2 has concluded after studying the evolution of e-commerce.

While that result was better - than - expected, retail spending disappointed, rising 0.2 per cent in April.

The recovery of household spending in France stalled in the September quarter, with consumption falling by 0.2 per cent, but the sharp increases in retail spending observed in the December quarter suggest this was probably a temporary setback.

Retail spending showed a small decline in real terms in the June quarter, to be 2.8 per cent higher than a year ago.

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«We have seen food retail spending, in particular, pick up and fill some gaps from weaker non-food retailing, with catered food driving most recent improvements,» Barden said.

Mr Goyder said another interest rate cut might stimulate retail spending and offset higher living expenses such as fuel.

Retail spending picks up slightly New research from the Commerce Department shows that retail sales inched up last month, despite lower levels of consumer confidence and slower employment growth.

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Retail spending didn't grow nearly as quickly in June as it did in May; but analysts at First Data Corporation say that could be due to a temporary spike in gas prices, rather than a substantial pullback in spending.

Additionally, while retail spending struggled through the downturn and has recovered only modestly to date, higher disposable incomes and private consumption are expected to support the retail sector in the medium and longer term.

With housing prices increasing, Yun predicts retail spending will improve.

Yun says retail spending is determined by consumer confidence, which is in turn determined by housing prices.