Mediocre December Retail & the Slowing Economy
“A lot of the euphoria around the holiday shopping season was misplaced. The weakness in December implies that the handoff into the first quarter was weak. The savings rate is going higher and that’s going to be a headwind for consumer spending.” -Neil Dutta, Bank of America economist, who was one of the few who...
Holiday Sales Were Muted; Sears Suffers Setback
Anticipation for a strong holiday season did not bear out as December sales proved lackluster.
If it wasn’t for Autos, retail sales would have been negative.
Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (December 2011)
Click to enlarge: I always find it interesting to see which books TBP readers are buying. In addition to throwing off minor referral revenue, the Amazon embed code lets me track every click from these links — how many people look at the page, how many books gt collectively purchased. Its anonymous — I don’t...
Winners & Losers: 2011 Holiday Retail
> full graphic after the jump > click for ginormous graphic FastUpFront – Business Loans And Retail Merchant Financing Company.
Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs
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Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs
Health Care Finance News, October 25, 2011
Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs
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Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs
Health Care Finance News, October 25, 2011
What Did Americans Want for Christmas This Year?
Last year, the typical US shopper spent $688.87 on gifts for others, These were the most wanted items for this Shopmas this year: > click for ginormous version ~~~ > click for ginormous version Source: Visual Economics
Logistics of the Holiday Season
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Logistics of the Holiday Season
Shopping Ideas Round Up
Those of you who are still shopping — you are fast running out of time. If you order anything online today, you are unlikely to get it shipped in time (and at Best Buy — you may never get it!). For those of you still with some jingle burning holes in your pockets, have a...
What Gadgets Top Holiday Shopping Lists ?
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Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas
Lots of good feedback for our first few lists (Holiday Shopping Ideas! and Holiday Gifts for Traders and More Holiday Shopping Ideas!). So with but 3 more shopping days til Xmas, lets give this one last go round. As part of our annual Shopmas tradition, I cull some of my more interesting fascinations, acquisitions, and...
Retail Rematch: Jeff Macke vs Barry Ritholtz
Jeff Macke admits how terribly wrong he was, offers up a humble mea culpa, a supplicates himself before me:
. . . Or not~!
Source: Retail Rematch: Jeff Macke vs Barry Ritholtz
