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Retailers Ready For Post-Election Holiday Shopping Rush

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According to the National Retail Federation ‘s annual consumer spending survey, shoppers may have a more conservative holiday spending budget as a result of the upcoming election. The study revealed that 58 percent of consumers plan to buy for themselves, spending an average of $139.61, an increase of 4 percent from last year’s $133.74

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The Changing Face Of Retail In Times Square

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Sure, you could make an argument for Wall Street as New York’s economic engine and the Statute of Liberty or the Empire State Building as its top tourists draws, but a study by the Times Square Alliance found that $0.22 billion annually in retail, entertainment and hotel sales. That amounts to $4.8 That’s a lot of money.

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Warehouse Space Going For Premium Rates

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Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. percent — the lowest such figure since 2001. As of Q2 2016, industrial warehouse space declined by 8.8

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Holiday Sales Expected To Rebound, Health And Beauty Topping List

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percent will be outshined this year, which is a welcome bump for may retailers. The research found that retail sales for the November-December holiday period will reach $632 billion, which is a record-breaking number, reflecting rising incomes and helpful deflation in food prices, clothing and electronics. Last year’s growth of 3.6

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Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash

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A major Pew study found that as of 2018, millennials with college degrees and full-time jobs were earning roughly what Generation Xers made in 2001. According to a 2018 Federal Reserve study, those difficulties have considerably slowed millennials’ economic lives.

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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In 2001, at the COMDEX Fall computer show, Microsoft ’s then-CEO Bill Gates introduced to the world to the Microsoft Tablet PC. Plus, wireless internet was still in its early days in 2001 and 3G was nonexistent in the U.S. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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That business was called The Retail Credit Corporation. The Retail Credit Corporation was also free to sell that data to anyone willing to pay for it, and many did. It would take another three decades — 2001 — for the FCRA to be amended further to give consumers direct access to their credit reports for a “fair and reasonable” fee.

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