Tag: holiday sales
Sears and Kmart Get Lump of Coal for Christmas
Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) reported that comparable store sales during the holiday season at its Kmart and Sears...
Make a List of Successful Retailers by Checking the Malls
Investing requires triangulating multiple streams of data to make decisions; that’s why each Christmas season I walk the...
Forty Million Credit Cards Stolen from Target
If you have shopped at Target since Black Friday, your credit card number may have been stolen by...
Long-Term Unemployment Benefits to Expire Under New Budget Deal
1 million people receive their last unemployment check on Dec. 28, and 850,000 people now will receive nothing...
December Consumer Sentiment Exceeds Expectations
The University of Michigan released its preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index for December: 82.5, well above the final November...
Target’s Stocking Gets a Lump of Coal
With the holiday season upon us, retailers typically drink in revenues and watch their share prices soar. While...
Black Friday Is No Blockbuster
Holiday shopping kicked off this past weekend with Americans spending more than $54.7 billion during the Thanksgiving holiday...
Retailers Will Benefit from Pre-Thanksgiving Storms
Heavy storms are expected to cover the Eastern third of the United States Tuesday and Wednesday, but retailers...
Holiday Spending Plans Track Unemployment
Manilla.com, a personal budgeting website, surveyed its users about their holiday spending plans.
Best Buy Warns Holiday Discounts Will Squeeze Margins
Best Buy warned that its healthy Q3 profits (net income $54 million) will not be repeated because of...