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US retail sales grow by ‘solid’ 7.9% in holiday
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STRONG online sales and demand for furniture and women’s apparel helped US retail sales grow by a “solid” 7.9 percent this holiday season, according to MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse.
US retail sales, excluding automobiles and gas, had grown 5.5 percent in the period between Black Friday and Christmas Eve last year.
Online sales grew 20 percent in the holiday season this year, MasterCard Advisors, which tracks customer spending, said in a report yesterday.
“The double-digit growth in furniture sales ... shows that consumers are willing and able to splurge on big-ticket items,” Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president of Market Insights at MasterCard Advisors, said in the report.
A delay in the onset of cold weather pushed back apparel buying this fall, so there was pent-up demand that played out after Black Friday, she said.
Quinlan said consumers were spending the money they were saving from lower gas prices.
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