Musab Balbale, senior vice president and chief merchant at CVS Health, tells this week’s Video Forum about efforts to build on the momentum the retailer developed during the COVID pandemic and further strengthen customer relationships. He also discusses how the company’s identity as a health care provider impacts the front-end business, the advantages of maintaining a closely curated assortment in self-care and other categories, and ways to further enhance CVS’ beauty offer.
NACDS Leaders: Pharmacy is a catalyst for change and innovation, and NACDS TSE is where it happens.
Walmart commissioned Morning Consult to conduct a survey of more than 2,200 U.S. shoppers.
WASHINGTON – Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows modest retail sales gains in June despite an uneven pace of spending in recent months, National Retail Federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz said. “The path of household spending remains difficult to read,” Kleinhenz said.
U.S. online retail sales will reach $1.2 trillion in 2024, up nearly 10% from last year, according to FTI Consulting’s 2024 Online Retail Report. The firm’s Retail & Consumer Products practice, which conducted analysis for the report, expects U.S. e-commerce sales to account for 22.
Breaking a record from 2019, consumers are expected to spend $902 per person on average on gifts, food, decorations and other seasonal items for the winter holidays.
