KQED Nightly Business Report February 8, 2013
Goods, etcetera. Reporter johnson predicts retail sales overall will rise 2. 9 this year. Thats less optimistic than the National Retail federations 3. 4 forecast. Income growth is still very sluggish. And of course we have the uncertainty from the sequester and all the washington nonsense occurring. So we think we would do very well to get near to a 3 annual growth rate. Reporter going forward, it will be harder to identify retail sales trends monthto month. Four major chain stores; target, macys, kohls, and nordstrom, will no longer provide monthly samestore sales figures. They join others l...