Retail

Retail Spending Keeping to a Modest-to-Weak Pace

Households are sustaining a modest-to-weak pace overall in retail sales, but there are pockets of stronger spending at home-related and online retailers. The weak spending remains focused at electronics stores and big-box mass retailers. New weakness is emerging at grocery stores, as…


Expect Holiday 2015 Spending to be Deceptively Weak

The holiday will be “deceptively” weak because households continue to spend at a healthy place in many non-retail categories and online. The spending weakness, however, will remain focused in the traditional retail measures that get inordinate attention during the holidays. See…