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March retail sales soar 9.8% thanks to relief payments

by Associated Press
Apr 15, 2021
Newly vaccinated and armed with $1,400 stimulus checks, Americans went on a spending spree last month.
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How has the economy changed over the past year, in 8 charts

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 16, 2021
Indicators like alcohol and sweatpant sales paint a picture of how we lived the past pandemic year.
Frozen food sales in the U.S. rose by almost 24% between February 2020 and last month.
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How will Walmart keep its sales growth going?

by Kristin Schwab
Feb 18, 2021
The giant retail chain received a big boost from the pandemic, but sales are starting to drop off.
Walmart's profits rely primarily on customer loyalty.
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Retail sales jump 5.3%, thanks to $600 stimulus checks

by Associated Press
Feb 17, 2021
The $600 stimulus checks got Americans shopping again.
A person walks by a store displaying a sale sign on Jan. 8, 2021 in New York City.
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Holiday sales grow by 3%, a much bigger jump than during the last recession

by Marielle Segarra
Dec 28, 2020
The 2008 recession hit more broadly, and retailers were stuck with a lot of inventory. This time, retailers had time to plan.
Holiday shoppers make a last-minute trip to department stores in Manhattan on Dec. 24 in New York City.
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Retail sales fell 1.1% in November, biggest drop in 7 months

by Associated Press
Dec 16, 2020
It's a sign Americans held back on spending during the start of the holiday shopping season.
Customers wear face masks while waiting in line to shop inside a Best Buy store on Black Friday in Hawthorne, Calif., on Nov. 27, 2020.
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Ikea ditches its catalog, but other retailers are hanging on to them

by Marielle Segarra
Dec 8, 2020
Catalogs can grab people’s attention, if only for a moment.
Catalogs placed at the entrance of an Ikea on Dec. 7, 2020, in Jarfalla, Sweden.
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Retailers' holiday sales strategy this year? Fewer, smaller sales

by Marielle Segarra
Dec 7, 2020
They're trying to make a profit selling less stuff, but holding the line on prices.
A pedestrian walks past a store advertising a Black Friday sale in New York.
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Holiday surge in e-commerce could cause delivery crunch

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 27, 2020
It won't be as bad as early in the pandemic, but shoppers should plan ahead.
A postal worker loads packages into a mail truck outside a USPS center in Los Angeles, California, in August.
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Growth in retail sales is slowing. That's a bad sign for the economy

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 17, 2020
As goes the U.S. consumer, so goes the U.S. economy.
Shoppers walk in South Coast Plaza in August in Costa Mesa, California. Smaller retailers are having a harder time transitioning to online sales and adjusting to COVID-19 restrictions.
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