Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have risen by 1.0% in February 2025. This follows a rise of 1.4% in January 2025 (revised down from a rise of 1.7% in our last bulletin).

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(Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Unadjusted the retail and the food services industry generated $639.1 billion in February 2025, as compared with $644.8 billion last year.

Ulta Beauty will launch a third-party marketplace later this year as it seeks to combat slowing sales and declining market share. Despite a solid Q4 and FY 2024 overall, the company saw net sales drop ...

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd. is struggling to consolidate its retail strategy, unable to compete with both traditional retailers and fast-paced e-commerce players. Despite efforts to ...

The kind of business that we want to grow within ecommerce is a lesser discount, more profitable growth path,” Ashish Dikshit, managing director of Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, told investors ...

She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting. Retail sales across the U.S. rose a modest 0.2% in February, missing forecasts amid fears that the economy is slowing, new ...

Retail sales rose 0.2% in February from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Monday, up from January’s downwardly revised 1.2% decline. That was much lower than the 0.7% increase ...