The NRF Forecasts a 4% Boost in Holiday Spending This Year

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You may not know what you’re going to be for Halloween yet, but the National Retail Federation (NRF) knows roughly how much you’re going to spend during the upcoming holiday season.

The retail trade association released its holiday sales forecast for 2019, which predicts an increase of 3.8%-4.2% over 2018, for a total of $727.9 billion to $730.7 billion in spend from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2019.

The NRF expects online and other nonstore sales in particular to increase 11%-14%, to between $162.6

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