Customers shop at the GU Co. store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Consumer spending was flat in September as prices moved sha...
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Amazon Sends New Warnings About the Economy
Amazon (AMZN) is determined to be well prepared to weather the sharp economic downturn on the horizon without a big scratch. The e-commerce giant, which is one of the barometers of the health of th...
Xcel Delves Deep Into Livestream Shopping; Combines Media And Retail In Direct To Consumer Approach
Ken Downing with designs and an inspiration board for Halston. Downing is creative director of the … [+] brand. Courtesy of Xcel/PHOTO BY CAROLINE FISS Robert D’Loren wants to you to know that d...
Retail crypto investment trends and attitudes – EndoTech key findings
EndoTech recently conducted a survey amid the ongoing crypto winter to evaluate the various crypto investment trends. The survey comes at the height of regulatory uncertainties and an elongated crypto...
Holiday E-Commerce To Top $209 Billion, As Growth Rate Slows
U.S. consumers are expected to spend $209.7 billion in November and December, during a highly … [+] competitive holiday season, according to the Adobe holiday forecast. getty U.S. consumers are ...
Retail adds $89 billion to U.S. stock market
The broader markets had another up-and-down movement last week, where a slight recovery early was ruined by a large drop towards the end of the week. Inflation worries are pushing investors into a cor...
Halloween items like 12-foot Home Depot skeleton are key to retail strategy
A child looks at a halloween costume on the rack. At the Target department store in Exeter Township Tuesday afternoon for a story on halloween costumes. Ben Hasty | Medianews Group | Getty Images In t...
Semiconductor Stocks Tumble After U.S. Announces New Chip Restrictions
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This retail stock is a good pick no matter what the economy does
Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) has lost nearly 25% over the past two months, which, as per Gina Sanchez (Lido Advisors), is a classic buy the dip moment. Costco is a great pick for inflat...
Walmart Makes a Huge Grocery Move, Amazon Drops Key Technology
Amazon (AMZN) has set the standard for delivery and fulfillment. Before the online leader declared that free, two-day shipping would be the minimum, there was no real set policy for delivery. Basicall...
5 Active Mutual Funds for the Long Run, Plus Five Runners-Up
Gone are the days when star mutual fund managers were household names. The strong personalities that once dominated fund management—think Bill Gross or Peter Lynch—have moved on. Many active mutual fu...
Costco Credit Card Secrets Members (and Investors) Should Know
Costco (COST) does not follow the same rules as other retailers. The membership-based warehouse club has a relentless focus on offering members the lowest prices possible. That allows it to do things ...
Retail Media Is Now 11% Of Total Ad Spend. Here Are 5 Factors Driving That Figure
A change is afoot. Retail media, once the domain of AmazonAMZN sellers, is taking over the world. The advertising world at least. A recent report by WPP’s GroupM said that retail media already r...
Canadian central bank identifies retail CBDC archetypes in theory-heavy analysis
An analyst at the Bank of Canada has written a paper that identifies recurring patterns in CBDC models and how those patterns impact a list of performance criteria. Five patterns that recur in retail ...
Retail Inventory Glut Is About To Get Ugly
Retail Inventory Glut Is About To Get Ugly getty The retail industry kicked off the crucial fourth quarter of 2022 weighed down by the same inventory imbalance that greeted it in the first quarter, wi...
Once A Street Coffee Vendor With Three Carts, Nitro Beverage Is Now Making Waves In Retail With New Capital Injection
Cofounders of Nitro Beverage Co. from left to right: Kareem Elhamasy, Paolo D’Amico, Mike D’Amico, … [+] and Ali Mohamed. Nitro Beverage Co. Nitro Beverage Co. is having a restless y...
This Retail Holiday Shopping Season, Self-Expression Will Be Trending
The Shopify.com app store offers the MyRegistry.com app, merging niche retailer’s with their “tribal … [+] brand advocates,” while facilitating push to pull marketing movement. Davide Bonaldo/SO...
Costco Has Surprising Gas News for Members, Investors
Costco (COST) offers a very simple proposition to its members. You pay $60 for basic access or $120 for premium access (which comes with 2% cash back on most purchases up to $1,000 per year) in order ...
Coinbase Introduces PayID and Premium Services for Aussie Retail Customers
Coinbase announced expanding its services in Australia to make accessing the crypto economy easier and safer, introducing three services to their Aussie clients. The digital currency exchange, which f...
Bitwise launches Web3 ETF for institutional and retail investors
Bitwise Asset Management announced on Oct. 3 a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) to both institutional and retail investors, giving them access to companies “positioned to benefit” from Web3 growth. Bit...
Inflation Will Impact How Holiday Shoppers Buy, And Who Gets Gifts
Consumers are trimming their gift lists and shifting their spending plans due to inflation, … [+] according to a new KPMG survey getty Inflation is the top concern of holiday shoppers this year,...
Target Moves Black Friday Up To Early October
Promoting holiday sales well before Thanksgiving is now just business as usual. Such is the case for TargetTGT , which announced it is kicking off its holiday season push with its biggest ever “Deal D...
21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023
When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...
Chinese Tech Billionaire Richard Liu Settles Sexual-Assault Case in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—A legal battle that Chinese feminists had seen as pivotal for the country’s embattled #MeToo movement ended abruptly just before a jury was set to hear the case in a Minnesota courtroom. R...
Retail Recession – Biden Vs Trump: Self-Induced Or Fueled By The Feds?
Businessman grabs the head concept with business chart on scoreboard getty The economy tightens, election day approaches – and retail pundits wonder if trade policies developed by the Team-Biden...
The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car
A few years from now, in addition to deciding your next vehicle’s make and model, you may have another tough choice: the Google model or the Apple one? Other options may include “car maker generic” an...
Crypto Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa Largely Driven by Retail and P2P Activities
While institutional traders are not prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region is known to have the highest number of small retail transactions globally. Part of the driving force for cryptocurrency ...
Ford stock is now a ‘sell’ at UBS as an oversupply problem looms
Shares of Ford Motor Co. were hit hard Monday by UBS analyst Patrick Hummel’s recommendation that investors sell, as the auto industry is facing a worrisome U-turn from undersupply to oversupply. Humm...