{"id":14,"date":"2016-02-16T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:05:16","slug":"2016-retail-sales-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/2016-retail-sales-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Retail Sales Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Retail Federation (NRF) released its economic forecast for the year, projecting that retail industry sales will grow 3.1%, higher than the 10-year average of 2.7%. The NRF also announced that it expects non-store sales in 2016 to grow between 6% and 9%. These predictions exclude purchases related to automobiles, gas stations and restaurants. Read more of the forecast <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/multichannelmerchant.com\/news\/nrf-predicts-retail-spending-grow-3-1-2016-12022016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Retail Federation (NRF) released its economic forecast for the year, projecting that retail industry sales will grow 3.1%, higher than the 10-year average of 2.7%. The NRF also announced that it expects non-store sales in 2016 to grow between 6% and 9%. These predictions exclude purchases related to automobiles, gas stations and restaurants. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/2016-retail-sales-predictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016 Retail Sales Predictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail-news","category-retail-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipstc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}