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Many workers feel overdue for a pay raise, finds new research from the personnel staffing firm of Robert Half. According to its 2022 Salary Guide, companies will need to enhance their compensation strategy or risk losing top talent to competitors. "In this…
“Holiday spending has the potential to shatter previous records,” announced the National Retail Federation, which forecasts that November and December holiday sales will grow between 8.5% and 10.5% over 2020, to a total between $843.4 billion and $859…
States and localities are using economic incentives to entice both new and remote workers to relocate to their small towns and urban areas and to do so on either a short-term or permanent basis. “These incentives augment employer efforts to attract the right…
The online grocery market in the United States generated a total of $8 billion in sales during September, driven by $6.4 billion from the pickup/delivery segment and $1.7 billion from ship-to-home services, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery…
At the middle of October, your view of the Pacific Ocean along the southern Calfironia coast was blooked by a record 100 cargo ships waiting to enter the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to unload an estimated 800,000 containers. When the container ships…
With the holiday season around the corner, it is notable that heavyweights like Wal-Mart and Amazon started their Black Friday deals – in October. Also noteworthy is the rationale for this: nobody knows when they will be able to reliably source and…
This year’s holiday retail sales will rise between 7% and 9% compared with the 2020 season, according to Deloitte’s holiday retail forecast. Overall, Deloitte’s retail and distribution practice projects that holiday sales will total $1.28 to $1.3 trillion…
The U.S. industrial market is on pace for a record leasing volume with activity through July reaching 587 million square feet, 52% more than the same period last year, CBRE reported in September. CBRE credited higher transportation costs – which are rising…
Consumer spending on Halloween-related items is expected to reach an all-time high of $10.14 billion, up from $8.05 billion in 2020, according to the National Retail Federation. An estimated 65% of Americans intend to celebrate Halloween or participate in…
A unanimous vote by the Surface Transportation Board scuttled the proposed merger of Canadian National Railway and Kansas City Southern, and also seems to signal the advent of a new era of more vigorous railroad regulation. The board voted 5-0 not to allow…
When Vice President Kamala Harris toured the Far East while the crisis in Kabul raged, she declared to Americans at a press conference in Singapore: "If you want to have Christmas toys for your children, now might be the time to start buying them, because…
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in July, with the overall economy notching a 14th consecutive month of growth, according to the nation's supply executives surveyed in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. Produced by the…