Analysts are struggling to secure consistent holiday sales figures, creating uncertainty in the retail world for the year ahead. Matt Katz was featured in “Inflation Perplexes Holiday Sales Analysts, Muddying Forecasts for 2023” in Bloomberg News about how retail forecasting has changed in recent years.
Matt explains the current environment, “[More so than in past years,] retailers don’t know what their first quarter and second quarter will look like. Most leaders have been living through 7 to 10 years of growth. We’ve entered a different period.”
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