
National Retail Federation (NRF) Holiday Forecast: Another Confirming Data Point for UPS Calls Earlier this week we issued a special alert adding the United Parcel Service (UPS) Jan 2018 130.000 calls (UPS180119C00130000) to the Tematica Options+ Select List - click here to view the alert in case you missed it. The numbers include online sales, which are expected to grow between 20 percent and 30 percent to between. That compares with 4 percent growth last year and an average 3.5 percent over the past five years. NRF's forecast calls for holiday spending to increase between 3.6 percent and 5.2 percent to between $755.3 billion and $766.7 billion. The upward revision is due to improvement in a variety of economic indicators including stock market gains, recent income growth, savings built up during the recession - all giving consumers the. After a solid start to the holiday season, the National Retail Federation announced Tuesday that it is revising its forecast to 3.3%, up from 2.3%. Sales during November and December will increase between 3.6% and 5.2% over 2019 to $755.3 billion and $766.7 billion, according to the NRF's annual holiday forecast. The National Retail Federation (NRF) issued an upbeat holiday forecast despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, citing a strong stock market, rising home values and record personal saving rates. Source: NRF "The combination of vaccine distribution, fiscal stimulus, and private-sector ingenuity has put millions of Americans back to work. The National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts retail sales to increase between 10.5% to 13.5% this year, with that growth driven by improvements in the economy and consumer spending. The first half of 2021 totaled 12.8 million TEU, up 35.6 percent from the same period last year. January 2022 is forecast at 2.17 million TEU, up 5.7 percent from January 2021, and February 2022 is forecast at 1.9 million TEU, up 1.4 percent year-over-year.
"Despite the continuing health and economic challenges COVID-19 presents, we are very optimistic that healthy consumer fundamentals, pent-up demand and widespread. The National Retail Federation issued its annual forecast, anticipating that retail sales will grow between 6.5 percent and 8.2 percent to more than $4.33 trillion in 2021 as more individuals get vaccinated and the economy reopens.NRF also forecast an online sales increase of between 20% and 30% to between $202.5 billion and $218.4 billion.
31 - would increase between 3.6% and 5.2% over 2019 to a total between $755.3 billion and $766.7 billion. NRF had forecast that sales during the 2020 holiday season - defined as Nov.