INSIGHTS Insights for 2-24-20 By Staff Friday, February 21, 2020 4:00 PM "American retailers didn’t get much love in January."Economist Katherine Judge of CIBC Economics, commenting to MarketWatch recently for its report, “U.S. Retailers get off to a sluggish start in 2020.” Retail sales rose a modest 0.3 percent in the first month of the year, the Commerce Department reported.