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'Girl Math' Resurfaces As Shoppers Navigate Holiday Spending Amid High Inflation
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 - 3:31am | 635Read More...In the face of persistently high prices this holiday season, consumers are resorting to a popular TikTok personal finance trend, ‘girl math,’ to rationalize increased spending. What Happened: ‘Girl math,’ a term coined on TikTok for the mental gymnastics consumers engage in...
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Halloween Consumer Spending Surging In 2016
Friday, October 7, 2016 - 8:49am | 460Read More...Break out your Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton costumes, this Halloween is expected to be a big year for consumer spending. Halloween spending is expected reach $8.4 billion this year, up from $6.9 billion in 2015, a 22 percent increase, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). Spending...
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MasterCard Says Holiday Retail Sales Grew A 'Solid' 7.9%, Women's Apparel A Big Seller
Monday, December 28, 2015 - 2:23pm | 157Read More...According to Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA), retail sales (excluding auto and gas) grew 7.9 percent during the period of Black Friday to Christmas Eve. MasterCard SpendingPulse data showed that apparel sales saw a high single-digit growth during the holiday period and women's apparel sales rose...
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The Economics Of Valentine's Day: The Money Behind The Love
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 5:01pm | 696Read More...Heart-sick romantic or hardened cynic, you cannot escape Valentine's Day. The holiday not only has emotional importance for many people, it represents an important annual uptick for the retail industry. The National Retail Federation's latest annual Valentine's Day spending survey says total...
