ShopperTrak
| 9:00AM 9/22/2011
Consumers will spend a bit more this holiday shopping season, but there will be fewer of them in stores, predicts research firm ShopperTrak. It forecasts that national retail sales will rise 3% during November and December compared to the year before, but foot traffic will fall 2.2%.
| 12:30PM 7/21/2011
Class, today's lesson in back-to-school shopping is what grownups call a good news/bad news situation. First, the goods news: Back-to-school spending is expected to increase over last year, according to the retail analyzer ShopperTrak. The bad news: Shoppers won't be coming to the store as much.
| 7:30AM 12/31/2009
Even though holiday sales got a major lift on Christmas week, it is unlikely that the 2009 holiday figures were good enough to insure that most retailers had a reasonably good year.