What New Census Data Show about the State of Independent Retail

Date: 16 Dec 2010 | posted in: Retail | 3 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The good news is that overall sales at independent retailers grew by about 4 percent. The bad news is that chains grew faster and independents still lost market share, falling from 31 to 28 percent of retail spending. That decline in market share, however, was considerably slower in this five-year period than the preceding 20 years. Digging deeper into the new data, we found a number of interesting trends.… Read More