Archives for October, 2009
by Jeff Roster | October 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Next week I will be attending the first two days of Oracle OpenWord. Most of my two days will be spend at the Palace Hotel where the retail sessions are. So if you plan on being at OOW and at any of the sessions or events listed below please feel free to come by and [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Tags: Retail events, Retail Technology Conference, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | October 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Today the NRF released the below forecast for Holiday 2009 2009 holiday forecast, projecting holiday retail industry sales to decline one percent this year to $437.6 billion.* While this number falls significantly below the ten-year average of 3.39 percent holiday season growth, the decline is not expected to be as dramatic as last year’s 3.4 [...]
Category: Retail Observations Retail Spending Tags: