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How the net generation is changing retail
Sept. 24, 2008 - Don Tapscott was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Shop.org Annual Summit and talked about how the fact that the net generation has grown up with the Internet has had a profound effect on this group's norms and they way they shop. Shop.org reports. | READ MORE

Canadian consumers hunt for bargains
Sept. 24, 2008 - Canadian consumers are shopping more carefully and taking full advantage of special offers, but they're not systematically "trading down" to cheaper products and stores the way consumers are in the U.S., some Canadian retailers insist. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE

Retail sales in Calgary continue to grow
Sept. 24, 2008 - Retail sales in Calgary will balloon to $29.3 billion a year by 2012, about a $6.5 billion increase from this year according to the Conference Board of Canada. The Calgary Herald reports. | READ MORE

Retail jobs no longer 'just a pit stop in life'
Sept. 24, 2008 - There is extremely rapid upward mobility in the retail sector today. Long gone are the days of slogging away for years in the same low-paid position, particularly in a strong economy. Canada.com reports. | READ MORE

Retail Council makes it easy for retailers to lobby MPs
Sept. 24, 2008 - The Retail Council of Canada has set up a link and letter that retailers can use to voice their concerns to their Member of Parliament on the issue of rising credit card and Interac fees.

Forecast: Holiday season sales will be at lowest since 1991
Sept. 24, 2008 - Two U.S. retail groups are predicting that this holiday shopping season could be the most severe since the 1991 recession. USA Today reports. | READ MORE

NRF releases holiday 2008 forecast
Sept. 23, 2008 - The National Retail Federation today released its forecast for the upcoming 2008 holiday season, projecting that sales will rise 2.2 per cent this year to $470.4 billion.

Consumer confidence rises on strength of future expectations
Sept. 22, 2008, Toronto - Canadians entered the first week of the federal election campaign with a sense of hope for the economy as the latest results from TNS Canadian Facts’ Consumer Confidence Index point to a rise in confidence in September.

Shoppers want more personalization in gift cards
Sept. 22, 2008 - According to a new survey from the National Research Network, the perception that gift cards are impersonal is the top inhibitor for consumers purchasing gift cards, with nearly half of respondents citing that as a factor. RetailWire.com reports. | READ MORE

Social networking sites attracting boomers
Sept. 22, 2008 - A new survey reveals that 41 per cent of baby boomers have visited social networks such as MySpace or Facebook and 61 per cent have been to sites with streaming or downloadable videos such as YouTube. RetailWire.com reports. | READ MORE

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