{"id":1004201930,"date":"2017-12-29T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004201930"},"modified":"2022-12-08T21:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:06:46","slug":"economy-watch-retailers-get-a-holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-retailers-get-a-holiday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Retailers Get a Holiday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By D.C. Stribling<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004201932\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004201932\" data-attachment-id=\"1004201932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-retailers-get-a-holiday-gift\/shoppers_creative-commons_840x630\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,619\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shoppers_creative commons_840x630\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image courtesy of Creative Commons user southareapictures.jpeg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg?w=800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004201932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Creative Commons user southareapictures.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg?resize=300,232 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/Shoppers_creative-commons_840x630-e1514590923988.jpg?resize=768,594 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004201932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Creative Commons user southareapictures.jpeg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Americans decided to do some spending this year for the holidays, giving retailers&#8211;some of whom are a bit glum about 2017&#8211;their best holiday season sales since 2011, for an increase overall of 4.9 percent compared with 2016.\u00a0 That&#8217;s according to a report released just after Christmas by Mastercard SpendingPulse.<\/p>\n<p>That was good news for most brick-and-mortar retailers, at least those that didn&#8217;t close this year, but even better news for online retailers. Americans&#8217; love affair with Internet shopping is just as passionate as ever, with online spending before the holidays (Nov. 1 to Dec. 24, by Mastercard&#8217;s reckoning) increasing 18.1 percent year over year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Certain categories fared better than others. Electronics and appliances, a category that hasn&#8217;t had a particularly strong 2017, enjoyed a holiday sales spike of 7.5 percent, the largest increase in 10 years. Home furniture and furnishings did well too, up 5.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Mastercard reported that early-season promotions helped get the ball rolling, with the first three weeks of November turning in strong sales. Shopping got into even higher gear late in the season; Dec. 23, the last Saturday before Christmas, ranked second only to Black Friday in terms of overall U.S. retail spending this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season, sales made their best showing since 2011, thanks to online shopping, early-season promotions and a comeback by some struggling categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004201932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742,21749],"tags":[32815,32914,38500],"class_list":["post-1004201930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","category-retail","tag-consumer-spending","tag-e-commerce","tag-mastercard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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