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This is Retail: A look at the numbers (and the impact)

When NRF went searching for the “best retail story in America,” we knew we’d have our hands full picking from the sheer number of stories to tell (there are..oh, 28 million of them across the country)....

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Show your love for retail: Vote today (and often) in NRF’s “This is Retail”...

Out of many, many great entries, 20 finalists have now been named in NRF’s “This is Retail” video contest. Almost as soon as the top 20 announcement was made, finalists took to their websites, blogs,...

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Retail Means Votes: Why retailers should get to the polls this year

As we all learned in civic class, a crucial part of the political process is participation. At NRF we advocate on your behalf in Washington and make sure retail’s priorities are known. Amidst the...

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How Duane Reade reinvented itself as the quintessential New York brand

Duane Reade Duane Reade knew it had an image problem when Businessweek compared shopping at the drugstore chain to visiting the DMV. The retailer was founded in 1960 but had fallen out of favor with...

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Changing the perception of retail

In his opening remarks at Retail’s BIG Show this morning, NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay shared stats on NRF’s successes in 2012 as well as his vision for what’s next for the industry....

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Help us tell the real story of retail

Over the past few years, you might have noticed that we’ve talked a lot about jobs here on Retail’s BIG Blog. There are many reasons for that, but specifically in 2011, when the National Retail...

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Retail has a perception problem – and now is the time to fix it

Today is a ground-breaking day at the National Retail Federation, and not just because I’m blogging for the first time on Retail’s BIG Blog. Later this afternoon, I’ll be speaking to hundreds of...

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It takes a village: A glimpse at the RetailROI initiative in Honduras

There’s a well known proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.” A small village in Honduras serves as an amazing example of just that. As part of the Retail Orphan Initiative, retail...

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Retailers answer call for jobs across the nation

As the nation’s largest private sector employer, no one knows “jobs” better than the retail industry. And with the current state of our economy, retailers have taken that jobs call to heart. Through...

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Retail is America’s small business

Like millions of Americans, my first job was in retail. Maybold Shoe Store in Newark, Ohio sat right on the town square and was owned by Floyd McKenna, a well-known small business owner and active...

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