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  • Industry leaders to be honored at Big Show

    Executives from The Home Depot, Warby Parker and Chico’s will receive top honors from the retail industry next month when the National Retail Federation convenes its annual Big Show in New York.

  • Home Depot, Warby Parker and Chico’s to be honored at NRF Showv

    New York - Executives from The Home Depot, Warby Parker and Chico’s will receive top honors at the National Retail Federation’s annual covention (the Big Show) in New York.   Frank Blake, former Home Depot CEO and current chairman, will receive NRF’s Gold Medal Award. Clicks-to-bricks eyewear retailer Warby Parker will receive the Retail Innovator of the Year Award,  with company co-founders and co-CEOs David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal accepting the award.   

  • Retailers face organized ‘ambush’ in 2015

    A fresh round of unionization efforts appear to be in store for major retailers next spring after organized labor won a favorable ruling regarding how elections are conducted.

  • Posiflex to display new mobile tablet POS at NRF

    Hayward, Calif. - Posiflex USA, long known for its fixed POS terminals, is the latest addition to the mobile generation. Posiflex will reveal the MT4008, a new mobile eight-inch tablet POS system to complement its touchscreen POS terminal portfolio, at NRF 2015, booth #2969  

  • NRF: November retail sales rise 0.6%

    Washington, D.C. – Retail sales showed slow but steady growth during November 2014. According to the National Retail Federation, retail sales, not including automobiles, gasoline stations or restaurants, increased 0.6% seasonally-adjusted from October and 3.2% unadjusted from November 2013.  The increases were in line with NRF’s holiday sales forecast, which anticipates an increase of 4.1% from 2013.   

  • NRF: Imports will slow in December as holiday rush ends

    Washington, D.C. - Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to continue to slow down in December. According to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates, import volume at U.S. ports covered by the Global Port Tracker report is expected to total 1.37 million containers this month as the holiday shipping cycle winds down.   

  • Despite big bargains, total holiday weekend sales slide 11% according to NRF estimates

    New York - Despite some of the most promotional activity and extended operating hours the retail industry has ever seen, total spending for the four-day Black Friday weekend came in below projections, down a surprising 11.3% from last year.  According to the National Retail Federation's preliminary figures,  weekend spending dropped to  $50.9 billion from $57.4 billion last year.   

  • Sales, traffic decline Thanksgiving weekend

    Fewer Americans shopped and they spent less money during the Thanksgiving weekend, according to new estimates from the National Retail Federation.

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