Revenge spending. It has a nice ring for retailers battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact any kind of spending has a nice ring, but...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the standard narrative goes, the U.S. economy was running full steam ahead, with record employment levels, wages on the rise and...
As March sales and earnings reports start to show up this week, new data indicate that eCommerce sales for essential and nonessential retail will show...
A March survey of consumer expectations by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released Monday (April 6) found mounting worries over job losses, debt...
Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. COVID-19 is spurring firms that rely on consumer spending, and on lending to finance big-ticket purchases,...
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, PSCU compared transactions of its owner credit union members on a same-store basis between March 2019 and March 2020. The payments...
Call it the retail gap that eCommerce can only partly fill. Earlier this month, a record number of Americans — 3.3 million — filed for...
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. is down to a three-and-a-half-year low due to the effects of the coronavirus and social distancing measures, and consumer spending...
Thursday, March 19 was the first day of spring in the U.S. — a season that is symbolic of rebirth and renewal after a long,...