Industry Headlines: November 8, 2012
- Election 2012 in review: The impact on retail: A look at the lay of the land now that election season is over. (NRF)
- A Storm-Battered Supply Chain Threatens Holiday Shopping: Echoes from Sandy may continue throughout the holidays and across North America. (New York Times)
- Canadian malls to open early as Black Friday creeps north: Hoping to stem the tide of cross-border shoppers, Canadian centers prepare their own take on Black Friday. (Reuters)
- Who’s Hiring The Most This Holiday Season: Retail hiring is looking good, but who’s making the biggest impact? (Forbes)
- Sears, Macy’s holiday offerings reflect stiff competition: Retailers are ramping up their holiday plans. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Hudson’s Bay searching for tenants to sublet leftover Zellers stores: 52 locations weren’t taken by Target, and now they need new plans. (The Star)
- Macy’s Melds Past and Present in a Marketing Paean to a Christmas Movie Classic: Kris Kringle arrives from 1947 to hang out with Justin Bieber. (New York Times)
- Bring Out The Holly: Holiday Forecasts Bullish: The holiday season is actually looking pretty bright this year. (MediaPost)
- Marks & Spencer turns to Victoria’s Secret to boost sales: The retailer turns to the experts to jazz up its beauty lines. (Telegraph)
- Confident consumers spur retail, remodeling hiring: Nice to see good things snowballing for once in a long while. (USA Today)
