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Maximize Your Savings with Small Business Tax Credit Strategies

Small Biz Trends

This retained income can cover operational expenses, investments, or debt repayment, promoting stability. File Amended Forms if Necessary : If you missed claiming a credit in a prior year, you can file amended payroll tax forms to claim the ERC, particularly for the 2020 tax year.

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Destination XL Taps $17.5 Million Loan to Fuel Liquidity After Difficult Fiscal 2020

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer is still struggling under the challenges of the past year, with Q4 2020 sales falling 23.7% Destination XL, which operates the DXL Big + Tall and Casual Male XL brands and ecommerce sites including dxl.com, has pivoted its operations to recover from the pandemic. million in Q4 2020, down from a $2.4

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Bad debt blowout fuels massive Afterpay loss

Inside Retail

The company’s operating expenses – in particular its bad debts – ballooned out from $72.1 Other rising expenses included a higher commitment to marketing the brand. million for the December 2020 half. million as more and more of its instant-loan clients failed to pay their debts. . million a year ago to $176.8

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Costco, Nordstrom And Abercrombie Results Showcase Retail Fortunes Across Three Verticals

Retail TouchPoints

Q1 2020 financial results for Costco , Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch encapsulate how three retail verticals — club, department and specialty apparel — are weathering the COVID-19 pandemic. sales increase for Q1 2020, largely fueled by a 66.1% Costco posted a 7.3% jump in e-Commerce sales.

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Extended COVID-19 Crisis Could Force Tailored Brands Into Bankruptcy

Retail TouchPoints

during Q1 2020, and unlike many other retailers that made up some of the difference with e-Commerce growth, its online sales, including rentals, fell 31.9%. and Canada, from March 17, 2020 through the end of the first quarter. The retailer posted a sales drop of 60.4% The retailer also reported a same-store sales increase of 2.4%.

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Amazon results and outlook fall short as warehouse, fuel costs soar

Inside Retail

. “We see encouraging progress on a number of customer experience dimensions, including delivery speed performance as we’re now approaching levels not seen since the months immediately preceding the pandemic in early 2020.” ” INFLATION HITS AMAZON. Amazon’s results called consumer demand into question.

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Balancing Customer Loyalty in an Age of Growing Business Costs

Retail TouchPoints

Since 2020, the global economy has sat on pins and needles as the fallout from COVID-19 rippled through 2021, 2022 and 2023. But the resilience of the American consumer prevented an all-out economic disaster. Time and time again, consumers kept the economy chugging along despite the bleak forecasts from leading economists.