Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
Holiday shopping season sets forth an annual gut check for the U.S. economy, prompting buyers to splurge in a show of optimism or cut back out of fear of what next year holds.In 2025, shoppers opened their wallets with gusto, though consumers appeared to favor...
Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
Mastercard released its SpendingPule report on December 23, revealing that U.S. retail sales rose 3.9 per cent year-on-year during the holiday trading period as shoppers combined online browsing with in-store purchases. According to the preliminary data from...
Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
For years, I watched my neighbor, Mark, take extravagant vacations while I clipped coupons. I assumed he had a trust fund. One day over the fence, he confessed his secret: it wasn’t inherited wealth, but ten specific money moves he started making when he was broke....
Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
The day after Christmas used to mark the end of peak season. For many retailers in 2025, it marks the start of a second peak, one that moves in reverse. Packages that flowed out in November and December come back in January, often at peak shipping rates and with less...
Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
Data from Happy Returns, a UPS-owned reverse logistics company, shows that nearly one in every 10 retail returns in the United States involves fraud. Retailers now lose an estimated $76.5 billion a year to the problem. To slow those losses, Happy Returns, which...
Jan 5, 2026 | Retail
New York — In 2025, shoppers said farewell to a number of well-known retailers. Forever 21 didn’t live up to its name. The celebrations ended at Party City. And it all went wrong for Rite Aid. These stores were just some of the roughly 8,200 locations that shut their...
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