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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

The following retail stats from IBISWorld will help you understand the landscape of small specialty retail stores in the US: There are around 131,470 small specialty retail stores in the US in 2021. per year on average between 2016-2021. between 2016-2021. The number of small specialty stores has declined 0.8%

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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

That is significantly higher than what companies typically spend on sales and marketing. Take department store Kohl’s, last year its marketing costs were only 4.9% A survey by Gartner found the average marketing spend as a percentage of a company’s revenue was 6.4% of revenue. At one point Casper was valued at $1.1