(Catalog Age) The National Retail Federation anticipates a decent holiday season this year, projecting a 4.5% overall retail sales gain and overall holiday spending of $219.9 billion for the November-December period. Although last year’s retail sales gains of 5.1% were higher, the NRF points out that the increase was easier to achieve since the holiday 2002 season was relatively flat-up only 1.2% over 2001.
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