Retail

  Bloomberg With the pandemic waning, the US is gearing up for pre-pandemic levels of trick-or-treating, despite inflation levels not seen for 40 years. Undeterred by soaring prices, 69% of consumers are planning to celebrate Halloween this year compared with 68% in 2019, the National Retail Federation (NRF) said. A survey commissioned by the trade group found that consumers plan ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam. The company announced the initiative at the Amazon Accelerate conference in Seattle, where it demonstrates new features to the independent businesses that sell more than half of the products on Amazon.com. Merchants will be ...

Bloomberg UK retail sales fell at the sharpest pace in eight months in August as a worsening cost-of-living crisis and plunging confidence forced consumers to cut back on spending. The 1.6% drop was more than three times the decline predicted by economists and reflects the squeeze on households from soaring energy bills and inflation near a 40-year high. All retail ...

Bloomberg California sued Amazon.com Inc, saying the company forces third-party merchants to agree to policies that lead to “artificially high prices” for consumers. State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the antitrust suit challenging Amazon merchant agreements that bar sellers from offering lower prices on other sites and impose stiff penalties if they do. He said the agreements block competition from ...

  Bloomberg Hennes & Mauritz AB sales declined more than expected over the summer as the Swedish retailer fell further behind rival Zara amid a growing cost-of-living crisis across Europe. Revenue dropped 4% excluding currency shifts in the three months through August, the Swedish retailer said. Analysts had expected a decline of 1.4%. That’s the first retreat in six quarters. ...

Bloomberg Deloitte expects retailers will see slower volume gains this holiday season, from November through January, as a result of the US economic slowdown. “Retail sales are likely to be further affected by declining demand for durable consumer goods, which had been the centerpiece of pandemic spending,” Daniel Bachman, Deloitte’s US economic forecaster, said in a statement. “However, we anticipate ...

  Bloomberg The Swiss athletic brand On is launching a resale site, making it the latest company to enter the fast-growing apparel resale market. On Holding AG, which is backed by tennis star Roger Federer, went public last year and expects to see net sales of 1.1 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 billion) in 2022. The company has made sustainability a ...

  Bloomberg The dollar’s long rally against the euro this year has proved a godsend for the owner of the Zara brand by swelling the value of revenue from its US garment sales when converted into euros. While it’s lost some ground over the past week, the greenback has gained more than 13% against the euro this year, boosting European ...

  Bloomberg British supermarket chains Asda Group Ltd and Iceland Foods Ltd have seen their bonds move out of the distressed zone after British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s promised help on energy bills. With Britons expected to have more money in their pockets to spend on essential groceries, the sweeping package of measures to contain spiraling energy bills announced last ...

  Bloomberg Aldi has become Britain’s fourth largest supermarket for the first time, overtaking Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc to gain 9.3% of the country’s grocery market. The German discounter’s market share climbed 1.2 percentage points in the 12 weeks to September 4, retail data company Kantar said. Brits have been turning to cheaper outlets and own-brand labels amid the country’s ...