Coresight Research’s annual year-ahead outlook concludes a substantial proportion of retailers will move toward a unified strategy supporting seamless transitions connecting shopper touch points while leveraging emergent technology in consumer service and...
Market research company Numerator reported 80% of Christmas celebrators plan to purchase gifts, with gift cards topping the list of most likely gift purchases and home goods coming in fourth. Key results of Numerator survey: 57% of shoppers said they would spend the...
Right around 157.2 million consumers plan to shop on the last Saturday before Christmas, Super Saturday, according to an annual survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, up from 141.9 million on the date in 2023. The total...
Economic activity in the services sector expanded for the fifth consecutive month in November, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s Report on Business, with retail in positive territory. In its survey of purchasing and supply executives in the United...
Indoor mall visits grew by 6.4% year-over-year during November, while open-air shopping center visits were up 4.8% and outlet mall visits were up 3.8%, according to Placer.ai. Traffic during the Black Friday weekend – including Friday, Saturday and Sunday – was up 6%...
