Tag: recession

September 29, 2022

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend […]

September 6, 2022

The past 12 months or so have brought plenty of twists, turns and challenges for the retail world. In rough order the market has experienced booming sales and profits, supply chain bottlenecks and record inflation, followed by quickly collapsing consumer […]

June 11, 2020

Retailers in most countries have not faced an economic fallout of this magnitude since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. The overall retailing industry declined 3% in 2009, only one of two declines over the last 15 years, but quickly […]

September 17, 2019

Early prognostications of holiday retail sales are coming in fairly bullish, but some are accompanied by asterisks. For one thing, the relatively steep year-over-year climbs are due in part to the disappointment of late last year, and not just to […]

July 1, 2019

This month marks 10 years of an economic expansion in the U.S. that has been seen mostly on Wall Street, less so on Main Street. It’s either tied for or is the longest recovery ever, depending on which economist you […]

January 15, 2019

NEW YORK — While some retailers like Target are coming off of a holiday high thanks to a favorable economic climate in 2018, others like Macy’s and Kohl’s have recently reported figures that are disappointing at best. Moving into the […]