According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) our wallets are hit hard as well.
The National Retail Federation is predicting an overall 2.2% increase in retail sales.
The Ebeltoft Group made some interesting suggestions at a recent meeting for the National Retail Federation.
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Overall holiday retail sales rose 4.1% in 2011, according to the National Retail Federation.
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The National Retail Federation predicts overall BTS spending will be slightly less this year than last.
According to the National Retail Federation and BIGinsight, shoppers have increased spending around St.
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And that's still a big concern to people like Neil Trautwein of the National Retail Federation.
The National Retail Federation asserts that shoppers are taking to the Web in bigger numbers.
This is far below the nonsensical 13% number the National Retail Federation (NRF) trumpets to gullible journalists.
Her company conducted the study on behalf of Shop.org, the online arm of the National Retail Federation.
Nine in ten are planning special promotions, up from 72% in 2007, according to the National Retail Federation.
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that 480, 000-500, 000 seasonal positions will be added, depending on sales activity.
The National Retail Federation is projecting 5% growth in holiday spending this year.
Craig Shearman, a vice president of the National Retail Federation, told The Record.
The National Retail Federation, which represents 1.4m retailers, has cut its fourth-quarter sales-growth forecast almost in half, to 2.2%.
The National Retail Federation criticized the pact, being pushed by worker rights groups and unions, for having a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
That is attractive to U.S. retailers, whose profit margins average 1% to 2%, according to the U.S.-based National Retail Federation.
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The National Retail Federation estimates that retailers plan to hire between 585, 000 and 625, 000 temporary workers this Christmas season.
Mr. SCOTT KRUGMAN (Vice President, National Retail Federation): I don't think this is going to impact retailers across the country.
Unbundling "doesn't make a lot of sense, " says Mallory Duncan, general counsel for National Retail Federation, an industry trade group.
For 2012, gift cards will be No. 1 for the fifth straight year, according to the National Retail Federation.
Eighty-eight percent of consumers will celebrate the Fourth this year, up from 85% in 2004, according to the National Retail Federation.
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Last year the National Retail Federation estimated that nearly 58% of shoppers said they would like to receive a gift card.
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The National Retail Federation expects the trend to continue, calling for a 2.8 percent increase in sales in its holiday forecast.
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And yet remember it was Mallory Duncan of the National Retail Federation who was claiming that our worries about identity theft were overblown.
She notes the National Retail Federation projects a 2.8% overall retail increase this year, lower than the 5.2% increase that retailers experienced last year.
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The National Retail Federation, the largest U.S. retail grade group, sees November and December sales rising 4.1%, a slowdown from the past two years.
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The lobby includes associations such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Business Roundtable, the National Retail Federation and the US Chamber of Commerce.
The average shopper plans to do about 36% percent of their holiday shopping online, up from 32.7% last year, according to the National Retail Federation.
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