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| Economy, Retail Sales
April retail sales increased 0.4 percent over March and 2.8 percent year-over-year despite unseasonable weather, bumpy financial markets and rising gasoline prices, according to NRF
| Careers & Leadership, Leadership
Former Teach For Americaoperations and program leader to lead the NRF Foundation team as Vice President
| Economy, Trade
It was true in the 1980s, and it’s true today: Tariffs don’t work! Trade works. Watch as Ben Stein reprises his cult classic role from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, with a new twist.
| Economy, Trade
The National Retail Federation along with more than 100 other associations ranging from retailers, manufacturers, farmers, agribusinesses, technology companies and other supply chain stakeholders today submitted comments to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
| Economy, Trade, Supply Chain, Port Tracker
Imports at the nation's major retail container ports are expected to grow steadily throughout the summer despite the prospect of heavy tariffs on goods from China, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report from NRF and Hackett Associates.
| Economy, Trade, Workforce, Supply Chain
Withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement would cost retailers and consumers up to $16 billion a year and lead to the loss of 128,000 retail-related jobs over the next three years.
| Economy, Workforce, Trade
NRF and CTA release study on tariff impact on jobs.
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The spring edition of NRF’s Consumer View report provides insight into how new millennial parents shop, spend and engage with brands differently than parents from other generations.
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NRF welcomed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds the constitutionality of a process that allows bad patents to be reexamined administratively and eliminates many lawsuits by "patent trolls."
| Economy, Small Business
With the U.S. Supreme Court holding oral arguments on whether online sellers can be required to collect sales tax the same as local stores, NRF says the time has come to update the court’s landmark 1992 ruling on the issue.