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US Offline Retail Sales Will Reach $4.2 Trillion By 2028

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Our newly published research, US Online Retail Forecast, 2023 To 2028, shows that both offline and online US sales will reach record levels this year. As we’ve said many times, the store is flourishing and far from “dead!”

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