What New Census Data Show about the State of Independent Retail
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/what-new-census-data-show-about-state-independent-retail/The good news is that overall sales at independent retailers grew by about 4 percent. The bad news is that chains grew faster and independents still lost market share, falling from 31 to 28 percent of retail spending. That decline in market share, however, was considerably slower in this five-year period than the preceding 20 years. Digging deeper into the new data, we found a number of interesting trends. Continue reading






