Retail Federation Calendar. Census bureau shows that core retail sales during the 2024 holiday season grew an unexpectedly high 4% over 2023 to a. The challenges are growing and were quite evident during the national retail federation’s “big show” convention this week at manhattan’s javits center.

Retail’s big show, taking place jan. Nrf forecasts that retail sales will increase in 2024 between 2.5% and 3.5% to between $5.23 trillion and %5.28 trillion.