Retail Focus 9/19/22 – Deloitte’s Holiday Sales Projections; What Back-To-School Can Teach Us About 2022

Our interview guest is Rod Sides, Deloitte Insights Leader and Retail Partner at Deloitte. He joins the show to discuss Deloitte’s holiday sales projections and what we can expect as far as overall (and digital) sales during this upcoming shopping season. In news, Placer.ai data gives us an early peek at back-to-school traffic numbers and may give us a preview of what traffic cadence may look like in winter, and Amazon endures another lawsuit, this time by the California attorney general.