ft.com - 12/1/2008
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Aggressive price-cutting by retailers over the Thanksgiving holiday brought economically battered shoppers into stores in droves, according to spending estimates for the weekend that marks the symbolic start of the US shopping season. The National Retail Federation, which represents leading ...
theblackfriday.com - 11/27/2008
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ritholtz.com - 12/1/2008
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The Sort of Wall Street Journal Reporting That Makes Me Crazy
naked capitalism —
... But the Journal chose to lead with the more optimistic, and potentially less reliable survey (in fairness, in this case, so did the Financial Times, but with a tad less enthusiastic headline ("Black Friday bargains lift sales"). ...
‘Black Friday’ bargains lift US sales
FT Alphaville —
Aggressive price-cutting by US retailers over the Thanksgiving holiday brought shoppers into stores in droves, according to spending estimates for the weekend that marks the symbolic start of the US shopping season. The National Retail Federation, which represents major stores, estimated that the average US shopper spent $372.57, or 7.2% more than last year, over the four days from Thanksgiving Thursday to Sunday. A survey for the federation by BIG Research also estimated that the number of shoppers visiting stores and online e-commerce sites rose more than 15% yoy to 172m. ...
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Retail Sales Off Sharply in November
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BLACK FRIDAY RETAIL SALES INCREASE 0.5 PERCENT AS COMPARED TO 2008
shoppertrak.com 6 days ago — CHICAGO – November 29, 2008 – The traditional kick off to the holiday shopping season was a rather mixed bag as Black Friday spending showed a slight 0.5 percent increase versus the same period in 2008. According to ShopperTrak spending totaled ...
RETAIL SALES REPORT
angrybear.blogspot.com 3/13/2009 — By Spencer, It is interesting how today's report on nominal retail sales is being ignored almost across the board among the economic bloggers. January and February retail sales are above the December low. The three month moving average is still below ...
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themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com 3/12/2009 — The Commerce Department reported a big upward revision to retail sales in January and a modest decline of just 0.1 percent in February as tumbling automobile sales were offset by higher spending at gasoline stations and clothing stores. After a ...
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