Retail and Holiday Spending

Professor & Institution	Expertise	Contact
David Brennan, Professor of Marketing, Assistant Dean of Opus College of Business, Co-Director of the Institute for Retailing Excellence, University of St. Thomas	Brennan is a local and national source for stories on discount retailing, holiday spending and sales, the retail industry and shopping behaviors.	Jim Winterer, 651-962-6404, jwinterer@stthomas.edu
Jim Farrell, Professor of History, St. Olaf College	Author of One Nation Under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping, Farrell frequently comments on American culture (he's also known as “Dr. Death” for his first book, Inventing the American Way of Death 1830-1920.	David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu