Posts Tagged ‘ 2008 holiday shopping season ’

Holiday Shoppers May Forecast Early 2009 Economy

Dec 1st, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Economy

Last week, the Commerce Department announced that the economy contracted a bit more than originally estimated during the third quarter of this year. Naturally, that has made a lot of people very nervous. Right now, all eyes are on the 2008 holiday shopping season as the closest thing to real-time economic indicators as we are [...]

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Early Forecasts Lower Holiday Retail Expectations

Sep 29th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Operations

Since it’s going to be October before the week is out, it should come as no surprise that retail industry types are starting to talk about those all-important fourth quarter sales and, specifically, about the upcoming holiday shopping season. And, since most of the economic news seems pretty dismal these days, you might expect early [...]

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