NRF Pushes for Early Vaccination for Retail Workers
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to include the nation's 32 million retail workers...
How She’s Managing: Jewelry Editor and Consultant Katerina Perez
Every Thursday during the pandemic, we’re checking in on members of the jewelry trade in an attempt to glean shareable tips and tricks for doing...
Alrosa Invites U.S. Jewelers to B-to-B Trading Platform
In the age of a pandemic where jewelry trade shows around the world have been indefinitely put on hold, companies are coming up with ingenious ways...
Online Returns Doubled in 2020 as E-Commerce Soared
When the COVID-19 pandemic locked down millions of Americans last year, online spending soared. E-commerce sales grew approximately 49% year over...
Pandora Has Closed 25% of Stores Due to COVID-19
Pandora has had to temporarily close about 25% of its physical stores since the beginning of the year because of the ongoing spread of COVID-19, the...
Loriann Jewelry’s New Reflections Collection Is a Slice of Life
Slice as in diamond slices. And life as in “life as we know it” at this precise moment—and the possibilities, however elusive, of finding...
Retail Rents in Manhattan Are Dropping as Vacancies Increase
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging retailers in Manhattan, one of the world’s biggest and most famous shopping meccas, since New York State...
Roll Call for 2020’s Departing Jewelry Retailers
As I do every year, I would like to start 2021 by paying tribute to all the jewelers who closed their physical stores over the last year.
Some...
Retail Gained 121,000 Jobs in December, but U.S. Jobs Declined Overall
Good and bad news: The retail sector added 121,000 jobs in December—but total employment in the U.S. declined by 140,000 throughout the...
How She’s Managing: The Moonstoned Founder Elizabeth Potts
Every Thursday during the pandemic, we’re checking in on members of the jewelry trade in an attempt to glean shareable tips and tricks for...
First Known Case of COVID-19 Variant in New York Linked to Jewelry Store
The first person to be infected with the new and faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 in New York state has been identified. And the patient is...