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U.S. Consumers Are Showing Signs of Stress, Retailers Say

Consumers power the U.S. economy, and their capacity to spend has repeatedly defied predictions. In early 2020, after a short but severe recession caused by the pandemic, consumers splurged on […]




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CEO Changes at Gap and Kohl’s Signal Trend for Female Executives

At the start of this year, a slew of major retailers were searching for the right person to fill their chief executive roles. Most of those companies have now found […]




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Retailers Lay Out a Downbeat Outlook as Inflation Squeezes Low-Income Shoppers

As many of America’s best-known retailers reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings this week, buoyed by shoppers who continued to spend through stubbornly high inflation, they all seemed to arrive at the […]







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Retailers Stumble Adjusting to More Selective Shoppers

This hasn’t been the year retailers planned for.After two years of navigating the pandemic — which brought record online sales and shoppers willing to buy all manners of items, to […]