Halfway Point: Holiday Check-In
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, now’s the time to make that big push that will result in the strong finish we’ve all been planning for all this year. And because you’ve been making complex
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Trending Gift Ideas
Overview of Holiday Retail The art of gift-buying is difficult to master - but most people browse for gifts online and it is for good reason, especially if you don’t have something in mind. This leads to loads of
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Retail's Holiday Prep Checklist
Weren’t we just talking about New Year’s resolutions here? With most of 2018 in the rearview and 2019 quickly approaching, we’ve got less than two months to make this one of retail’s best years ever -
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Holiday Tracker: December 11
We're two weeks out from Christmas and the discounts show little signs of slowing down. While promotions are a few percentage points lower than Cyber Weekend's levels, the item-level discounts have crept up since we last checked in. And as
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How Is Luxury Faring This Holiday Season?
We know well what’s happening in retail in the middle these days - particularly in the US department store sector, but is the prognosis as bleak for luxury retail this holiday season? While 2016 saw major setbacks in global
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Cyber Weekend: Just How Big a Deal?
No doubt you've been tracking the Cyber Week data as it's been rolling in, and we have to say things are looking better than anticipated. Adobe cited that more than $5B in sales was recorded on Black Friday and $6.
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Black Friday: A StyleSage + Thomson Reuters Forecast
This week StyleSage partnered with Thomson Reuters on the outlook for the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping extravaganzas. Here are some key insights from our analysis. See the full report here. Right now, the average promotional discount is
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Holiday Tracker: Week Two
This week starts the feeding frenzy of discounts in retail land, right? Well, not exactly, it's been going on for a while now. Our holiday tracker breaks down, in real-time, the trends you need to know in promotions, discounting, and
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