Retailers celebrate merry shopping season
No one has official numbers yet, but Colorado Springs retailers from big to small say they believe they had their best holiday shopping season in years. “Our staff with over five years of history here at the mall believe this was the best traffic they had seen,” said Victoria Harley, general manager at Chapel Hills [...]
There are 99 days until Christmas, and while that might not be enough to send shoppers into a tizzy, it’s a different story for retailers.
Continue reading …UCCS and BiggsKofford want to know local residents’ shopping plans. The two organizations sent out a survey Monday to find out. It’s the third year in a row for the survey, which was created by the Southern Colorado Economic Forum at UCCS. “The survey results have been similar to what you get on a national [...]
Continue reading …The outlook for local retailers indicates a better holiday season this year than last. Most of the residents in El Paso County who responded to a Southern Colorado Economic Forum survey said they plan to do their holiday shopping in the area. Thirty percent of shoppers intend to make the majority of their purchases at [...]
Continue reading …To boost online and downtown Springs holiday sales, national retailers and local authorities are offering a few free perks to shoppers. Street parking in downtown Colorado Springs will be free this weekend, on Dec. 19 and 20. Parking meters will not be turned on. And, at last count, 702 national retailers had teamed up to [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs may not boast upscale retail options such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus or Saks – but evidently we’re not missing too much. A Bloomberg.com story last week said that many luxury retailers were caught with large overstock inventories last holiday season – and, as a result, are “trying to avoid repeating markdowns of as [...]
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