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Deloitte 2025 Retail Outlook: Trends, Challenges & Growth Forecasts

Deloitte’s retail outlook for 2025 looks bright. London-based consulting, tax and audit company Deloitte released its 2025 Retail Outlook in January, providing insights into what...




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Color experts forecast vibrant hues for 2018

BY JULIE A. PALM Discover what shades of dramatic purples, blues, blacks and reds are appropriate for...

Bedding Market Quarterly Reports Mattress Sales Down in Second Quarter

Total units and wholesale dollars were down 15.4% and 4.6% respectively in the second...

ISPA Forecast: Declines in 2020, Modest Gains in 2021, 2022

The U.S. mattress industry is expected to see declines in both the dollar value...

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Census Retail Sales Data for June Shows Modest Gains 

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released data that shows “modest retail sales gains in June, despite an uneven pace of spending in recent months,”...

Piper Sandler Reports May 2024 as Strongest Sales Month Since February 2022

When financial services and investment firm Piper Sandler recently reported on Memorial Day Weekend sales, the Minneapolis-based company stated in its PSC Mattress Retailer...

ISPA Releases Spring Mattress Industry Forecast

The International Sleep Products Association’s Statistics Committee has released its 2024 spring forecast for the U.S. mattress market. Since the mid-1980s, ISPA has published...

Piper Sandler Reports Mixed Memorial Day Weekend Sales 

Retailers were looking forward to Memorial Day Weekend sales as a barometer of the industry and in April, financial services and investment firm Piper...

Piper Sandler Forecasts Slight Sales Improvement

In March, investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler reported that February 2024 “showed the strongest sales growth in two years with sales...

Piper Sandler’s February Retail Survey Shows Stabilization

According to investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler, November and December 2023 were the two best months of the year for mattress...

Piper Sandler Releases January Retail Survey

Minneapolis-based investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler’s December Mattress Retailer Survey revealed that November and December 2023 were the two best sales...

Piper Sandler’s December Survey Shows Signs Toward Stabilization

Minneapolis-based investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler released the results of its December Mattress Retailer Survey, which offers a snapshot of mattress...

Piper Sandler’s November Retail Survey

Minneapolis-based investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler released its November Mattress Survey, which offers a snapshot of mattress retailers and sales from...

Piper Sandler Reports Black Friday Weekend Outlook

Minneapolis-based investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler released its initial report for Black Friday weekend sales, succeeding its October survey, which reported...

National Retail Federation’s 2023 Holiday Shopping Forecast: What You Need to Know

With 92% of adults planning to celebrate the winter holidays – and therefore, likely buying gifts – it’s important for retailers to get an...

Piper Sandler Reports Strong Labor Day Weekend Sales

Now that Labor Day Weekend has concluded, Minneapolis-based bank and financial services company Piper Sandler has released its post-holiday report with an outlook on...

Bedding Market Quarterly Reports Mattress Sales Down in Second Quarter

Total units and wholesale dollars were down 15.4% and 4.6% respectively in the second quarter of 2023, compared with the second quarter of 2022,...

Bad Moon Rising

While gathering clouds and growing turbulence seem tempestuous in 2023, will the skies be cloudy all year? A slowing economy will put downward pressure on...

‘Tis the Season for a Holiday Sales Forecast

Yuletide retail sales are expected to grow modestly, according to Deloitte. Holiday retail sales this year likely will increase between 4% and 6%, according to...

NRF Forecasts Healthy Holiday Sales

Spending is expected to be up between 6% and 8% in November and December. Despite consumers’ worries about inflation, holiday sales are forecast to be...

Retail Survey Notes Improving Outlook

Retail mattress sales were down 5% in dollars and 11% in units in September, but the fourth quarter bedding outlook is improving. Piper Sandler’s September...

ISPA Forecast Sees Wholesale Dollar Growth in 2022, 2023

The total United States mattress market will enjoy dollar growth this year and next year, but will see a drop in units this year...

Retail Outlook: Choppy Waters but Favorable Winds Ahead

Consumers are expected to shift their spending from goods to services but a generally robust economy should help retail sales grow 4.5%  Retailers, especially those...

Forecast: Retail Ready to Rock ’n’ Roll in 2021

Sales could grow as much as 8.2% as vaccines get into arms and people venture out more As more Americans get vaccinated and the economy...

Return to the New Normal

Retailers can look forward to an increasingly favorable operating environment this year as the economy gradually rebounds from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic Editor’s...