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Imports Stay High as Retailers Wrestle With Inventory
Imports are tracking at near record levels as the busy season approaches.
What Retail Really Wants from the Uyghur Bill: ‘You Really Have to Guess What the Issue Is’
The biggest problem right now? "Arbitrarily and inconsistently" enforced detentions, said ArentFox Schiff…
Designer Clothes, Bags Among Top Targets of Organized Retail Crime
The NRF's 2020 ORC report marked its fifth in a row where companies reported losses of more than $700,000 per…
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Should Retail Store Workers Move to the Front of the Vaccination Line?
NRF, reporting November sales data, makes a case for why customer-facing store staff should be among the…
Q&A: IBM Exec on the Benefits of a Sustainably-Focused Fashion Business
Consumers are increasingly willing to buy based on their values, with an IBM report saying, "sustainability…
Will Shoppers Venture Out to Stores for Holiday?
All hope is not lost for brick and mortar this holiday, survey says.
NRF Sues Trump Over Visa Ban, Presses Congress on Retail Tax Credits for COVID Relief
The National Retail Federation is urging the federal government to ease the burden on retailers as COVID-19…
Retail Shrink Hit $61.7 Billion Last Year—Here’s Why
Retail security executives reported a rise in the number of shoplifting, organized retail crime and employee…
NRF Calls Congress to Act on New Stimulus Measures
As the retail industry adapts to coronavirus-induced store shutdowns, industry trade organizations call for…
Retail Is Anxious to Reopen, But Here’s What it Needs to Do First
With retail focused on putting stores back to work, the industry is coming up with ways to meet that goal…
Retail Urges Federal Pandemic Insurance Program Based on 9/11
NRF said a federally insured pandemic risk insurance program would provide businesses the certainty they need…
Store-Closing Onslaught Has NRF Lobbying White House for a Lifeline
And as retail searches for answers amid a storm for stores, Edited suggests ways to boost sales on the…
Small Businesses Give Voice to Anti-BAT Fears
Despite murmurings that the Republican's A Better Way tax reform bill could undergo major changes if it's to…
Retailers Lobby Congress, the Public Over Border Adjustment Tax
The border adjustment tax is about to become famous—or notorious, if retailers have their way.
Trump is Already Damaging Online Sales
For all Donald Trump's talk about boosting the U.S. economy, the president-elect has already had an adverse…