Amazon said it experienced a record-breaking 2022 holiday season, although as usual, it didn’t provide any year-over-year growth numbers or other specifics. Outsiders will have to wait until late January or early February when the company reports its overall fourth-quarter Read more
Holiday retail sales in the United States in 2022 grew 7.6% over last year, and online sales grew 10.6% – a fairly narrow spread. The data comes from Mastercard SpendingPulse which tracks in-store and online retail sales across all forms Read more
People will be shopping in force online and in-person on “Super Saturday,” according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), which falls on December 17. And while the window is closing for online sellers to fulfill items in time to Christmas Read more
Amazon said small businesses in the US generated $1 billion in sales over the 5-day Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend and called it the biggest holiday shopping weekend ever. “This was a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend for Amazon. Customers shopped millions Read more
This year saw a greater number of people shopping over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend (a record 196.7 million), which also saw the resurgence of in-store shopping, according to National Retail Federation CEO Matthew Shay. The head of the trade organization Read more
Shopify and BigCommerce reported on sales trends over the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Both companies provide a platform for sellers to operate their own online stores, so their reports may give greater insight into how smaller merchants performed compared to Read more
Just a few weeks ago, Amazon and some other retailers and marketplaces told Wall Street they weren’t sure what kind of fourth-quarter growth to expect with all the economic uncertainty. But aggregated sales data for Black Friday (November 25, 2022) Read more
The National Retail Federation (NRF) issued an optimistic holiday-spending forecast on Thursday, calling consumers resilient amid inflation and higher prices. Many households will turn to savings and credit to provide a cushion in the face of those challenges, according to Read more
If the goal of the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale was to get shoppers to go bargain hunting for holiday gifts early this year, it may have been a success. Amazon said “tens of millions” of Prime members shopped during Read more
Adobe released its holiday sales forecast today, predicting growth of 2.5% between November 1 – December 31, 2022. While that number is underwhelming, Adobe provided context to help understand how it will impact merchants. Adobe analyzes over 1 trillion visits Read more
