March Retail Sales Hopped Along

Retail demand boils rice Hindu Business Line Frantic buying by retailers mainly pushed prices up, said Mr Amit Kumar, proprietor of Ginni Rice. The market has seen an unexpected rally over the last few weeks and it's hard to anticipate the levels where this rally may come to an end as market ... See all stories on this topic » Hindu Business Line

March Retail Sales Hopped Along Barron's As a result, one of those critical selling weeks shifts into the retail month of March. We believe that March has benefited at the expense of April sales and that the two months should be viewed together (commonly referred to as "Marpl"). See all stories on this topic »

Companies Pull Gift Cards From NJ Retail Locations NJ TODAY According to news reports, American Express pulled its prepaid gift cards out of New Jersey retail locations on Monday. Since then, California-based Blackhawk Network, which provides third-party gift cards representing over 175 different brands that ... See all stories on this topic »

On-call employment: Good for retail business, bad for workers Huffington Post For the 24-year-old student of fashion merchandise management at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, sales work at a retail clothing shop seemed like a good option. Taylor was hired last year at Club Monaco, a high-end clothing and ... See all stories on this topic »

Court scales back retail building plan Newsday (blog) Click here Court scales back retail building plan Now By Emi Endo Developers who took the Town of North Hempstead to court over a proposed retail building in Greenvale have received approval to move ahead with a scaled-down version of their project. See all stories on this topic » Newsday (blog)

Retailers: A Drag on Job Growth Smartmoney.com (blog) Oddly, analysts say, retailers aren't hiring. Jobs growth slowed significantly in March, according to the latest data released by the Labor Department Friday. Jobs excluding agriculture grew by 120000 last month — half the growth in February — the ... See all stories on this topic »

What the 'End of Retail' Means for Young Workers The Atlantic One possibility, however, is that the relatively weak growth in shopping center employment relative to retail sales since 2000 and especially recently is driving down overall teen employment levels. However, because teenagers are especially suited to ... See all stories on this topic »

Retail Giant Sees Growth Prospects in Indonesia's East Jakarta Globe (Bloomberg Photo) Matahari Putra Prima, which owns the Hypermart retail chain, aims to continue its aggressive expansion in eastern Indonesia this year to tap into faster growth in the region. Danny Kojongian, director of corporate communications at ... See all stories on this topic » Jakarta Globe

'The Death of Retail'? Not quite, but…. Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) The retail jobs they once provided — jobs once considered immune to phenomenon such as outsourcing — aren't coming back. Poking around in government economic data, it's not hard to find evidence to support Yglesias' theory. For example, over the last ... See all stories on this topic »

Easter sales may lift sagging economy The Australian HOW are retail sales expected to perform over Easter, and what is the outlook for the rest of the year? PETER FEROS DIRECTOR, FEROS RETAIL THE strength and performance of food and beverage retailing over the past two years has belied the downward trend ... See all stories on this topic »

Quickborn Consulting Launches Flatfile RIB Integration Solution at the World ... Technology Digital (press release) Quickborn Consulting LLC announced the launch of Flatfile RIB Integration solution, a packaged plugin solution which simplifies the process of integrating Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) and allows retailers to significantly decrease their ... See all stories on this topic »

Retail market showing signs of stability Bizjournals.com After a long winter, there are some small signs of a thaw in Charlotte's retail real estate market. Although the level of their enthusiasm varies, local market observers are feeling upbeat for the first time in nearly four years. The reasons are many. See all stories on this topic »

Pinterest offers more opportunity to retailers than not ZDNet (blog) When it comes to retail and brand-building, in general, many analysts actually agree that Pinterest offers more positive opportunities than one might expect. Steven Kramer, president of multichannel commerce platform Hybris in North America, ... See all stories on this topic »

Wethersfield Sees Increased Demand For Retail Space Hartford Courant By BILL LEUKHARDT, bleukhardt@courant.com The Hartford Courant A developer's plans to convert a long-vacant former technical school building into six retail locations is the latest sign of increasing demand for retail space, especially for some larger ... See all stories on this topic »

Warm Weather and Early Easter Lift March Retail Sales; TJX, Ross Shine 123Jump.com Retailers reported another month of rising sales as consumers show interest in buying more apparel at full price and warm weather brought more customers to shops. The early arrival of Easter also pulled some sales in the month as well. See all stories on this topic »

The End Of Retail Slate Magazine (blog) One month of data can be very noisy, but I think that if you look at March 2011 compared to March 2012 you can clearly see the End of Retail. According to the BLS, about 2 million more people were working last month than were working a year ago. See all stories on this topic »

Retail Success Stories - Part 12 Furniture World Magazine (press release) The largest privately owned furniture retailer in the region, Bernie and Phyl's, has been described as iconic. Consider the rationale. The family-run business, based in Norton, Massachusetts, owns and operates eight stores: Braintree, Hyannis, Raynham, ... See all stories on this topic »

Retail trainer Academy ONE in apprenticeships link with Aldi LDPBusiness Academy ONE, the retail training organisation created by shopping centre Liverpool One, Birkenhead training provider Scientiam, and the Skills Funding Agency, is working with Aldi to create a number of apprenticeships at its Merseyside and Halton ... See all stories on this topic »

Enlightened Experience: An Owner's Take on Retail SalonToday York: "The profit margin on retail sales is much higher for salons compared to service sales. It seems many salons lose retail focus and miss out on the additional and easy increased profits they could be enjoying. On average it can take $20000 in ... See all stories on this topic »