{"id":150189,"date":"2010-01-07T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/christmas-was-far-more-awesome-than-expected-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:23:08","slug":"awesome-christmas-sales-means-retailers-dont-need-to-blame-snowstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/150189","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Christmas Sales Means Retailers Don&#8217;t Need To Blame Snowstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas was far better than expected, despite the snowstorms in the U.S. Retailers are getting excited, with many <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704130904574643861351548896.html\">raising their forecasts<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6062CY20100107\">Reuters:<\/a> Based on reports of 30 retailers tracked by Thomson Reuters Data, 71 percent posted better-than-expected sales results for stores open at least a year in December, the most important month in the calendar for the sector.  Retailers overall posted a 2.9 percent increase, exceeding the 2 percent rise analysts were expecting and marking the best performance since a 3.4 percent gain in April 2008, according to Thomson Reuters Data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704130904574643861351548896.html\">Graphic below taken from the WSJ:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b4601f80000000000e9af10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RetailDec09\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/christmas-was-far-more-awesome-than-expected-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/business-news\/dec-09-natori1-2009-12\">Why The Tough November For Retail Doesn&#8217;t Mean A Bad December<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-surprise-us-consumers-are-crawling-back-up-the-ropes-2009-12\">Surprise!  U.S. Consumers Are Crawling Back Up The Ropes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/it-was-just-gasoline-2009-12\">Retail Sales: It Really Was Gasoline!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/eNm_xOf1vEQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas was far better than expected, despite the snowstorms in the U.S. Retailers are getting excited, with many raising their forecasts as a result. Reuters: Based on reports of 30 retailers tracked by Thomson Reuters Data, 71 percent posted better-than-expected sales results for stores open at least a year in December, the most important month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}