ShopperTrak: Last-Minute Shoppers a Gift to Retailers
Chicago–While retailers experienced a healthy bump up in their sales ending Super Saturday, Dec. 22, total retail sales fell 2.5% compared to 2011, according to ShopperTrak, which monitors retail...
View ArticleShopperTrak: Late Season Shoppers Help Holiday ’12 Rally
Chicago—Procrastinating shoppers—many of whom waited until the weekend before Christmas to finish their shopping—helped push total November/December holiday sales up 2.5%. According to results released...
View ArticleShopperTrak: Holiday Sales to Rise Less Than 2012
Chicago—In one of the first sales forecasts for the 2013 holiday season, ShopperTrak today predicted that retail sales in November and December would rise 2.4%. That’s lower than the 2012 increase of...
View ArticleReport: Retail Store Traffic Decreases More Than 7% During Government Shutdown
Chicago—Think the 16-day U.S. government shutdown and battle over the debt ceiling stalemate is just some political ploy that has little meaning in the “real” world? Think again: the gridlock has had a...
View ArticleGet Ready: ShopperTrak Predicts 10 Busiest Days This Holiday
Chicago—For all the early holiday shopping preparations, retailers can expect to see more shoppers making last minute purchases this year. While many may actually be waiting in anticipation of deeper...
View ArticleTraffic, Sales Up on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday
Chicago—Black Friday Creep evidently worked. As most major retailers added early opening hours on Thanksgiving Day, the lure of deep discounts and doorbusters brought more shoppers into stores on...
View Article“Black Weekend” Totals: Retail Sales Up, Store Shopper Traffic Down
Chicago–It’s a weekend that retailers anticipate and dissect to figure out where trends may be taking their business. And Black Weekend this year offered some mixed results. After releasing...
View ArticleFollowing “Black Weekend” In-store Holiday Shopper Activity Falls
Chicago—Even if sales weren’t as mammoth as retailers hoped over “Black Weekend,” the annual holiday promotion did serve to bring in more traffic—and last week, following the Thanksgiving weekend...
View Article7 Days and Counting: Holiday Shoppers Wait for Discounts
Chicago/New York—Snowstorms that hit much of the Midwest and Northeast last weekend may have hindered some holiday shopping, but consumers will be making up for that through Dec. 24 as procrastinators...
View ArticleSales Soften for Final Holiday Shopping Week
Chicago—Retailers will soon be ending their holiday season, sending shoppers and employees homes to enjoy their Christmas celebrations. But if some of the early indications about this year’s holiday...
View ArticleShopperTrak: Holiday Sales Rose 2.7%, Ahead of Estimate
Chicago—Despite the shortened holiday season and extreme weather in many areas of the country in the weeks leading up to Christmas, retailers finished the 2013 holiday shopping season with increased...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Chills at Retail and Everywhere
New York—Americans just can’t seem to stop talking about the Arctic blast (known as the “polar vortex”) that froze nearly everyone this week. The good thing for all you shivering types is that this...
View ArticleShopperTrak Bows Real-Time, Expanded Retail Measurements
New York—ShopperTrak, a leading global provider of insights into shopper behavior and retail analytics, is known for providing insights, traffic levels and sales data for some 750 top retailers in...
View ArticleShopperTrak Expects Increased Conversion Rates for Holiday
Chicago—The “Holiday Creep” is on—and getting even more pronounced. Over the past few years, ShopperTrak reports that there’s been an increase in the percentage of spending that occurs during the first...
View ArticleThanksgiving Payers Spoiler to Top Sales Day of the Year
Chicago–Black Friday may have the reputation of being the biggest sale day of the year, but that may soon change. Watch out for Super Saturday! With Black Friday sales down 6.8% compared to 2013, Super...
View ArticleNovember Sales Up Despite Thanksgiving Weekend Decline
Chicago—Early promotions in November proved beneficial as preliminary sales numbers show an encouraging gain for the holiday season. ShopperTrak data suggests a 5.4% increase in sales last month as...
View ArticleSuper Saturday Prevails in a Tight Battle for Number 1 Sales Spot
Chicago–Super Saturday prevailed as predicted. Dec. 20, the last Saturday before Christmas had a 0.5% increase in Super Saturday sales as compared to 2013 won it the number one spot for sales this...
View ArticleShopperTrak on Holiday Sales Growth: A Tale of Two Months
Chicago—Before the hustle and bustle of the holiday season was underway, ShopperTrak analysts predicted a 3.8% sales gain for 2014. By the mid-term, anticipation of an even stronger season began to...
View ArticleBack-to-School Shopping, the Latest Example of Holiday Creep: eMarketer
New York–Propelled by back-to-school buying, US retail sales will grow a relatively strong 4.6% during the core back-to-school shopping months of July and August 2015, according to a report in today’s...
View ArticleRecap: Black Friday Weekend Sales Decline, But Rise on Cyber Monday
Chicago and New York—Total tallies are trickling in and so far they tend to substantiate what many retail analysts have predicted: Black Friday creep has resulted in lower sales on the traditionally...
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