by Mike Duff | Jan 4, 2024 | Home + Housewares
Late-season shopping was a boon for discount and dollar stores in the 2023 holiday season. In-store shopping for discounts and dollar stores peaked on Super Saturday, with Christmas Eve traffic coming in strong as well, according to traffic tracker Placer.ai. Store...
by Chandler Harvey | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured News, Retail Articles
As holiday retail sales forecasts begin to flow in, it will be worth keeping an eye on trends that have become more pronounced during the year to get a sense of where the sales season is taking retail and the housewares sector. The year has been ripe with...
by Mike Duff | Sep 22, 2023 | Retail Articles
With Costco preparing to reveal its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, traffic-tracker Placer.ai points out that the company is on a roll with more footsteps through the store during the past couple of years and, more recently, during the back-to-school...
by Mike Duff | Feb 17, 2023 | Retail Articles
As the holiday season fades into memory, Placer.ai decided to take a look at what kind of visitation trends major mass market and warehouse club stores are experiencing as 2023 begins and determined that Walmart is lagging. Target and Walmart were major retail...
by Mike Duff | Jan 3, 2023 | Retail Articles
According to Placer.ai, catering to the tastes and preferences of young shoppers is a strategy that has proven particularly important for leading retailers in the beauty sector. In recent years, the traffic tracker and market researcher noted, Gen-Z has become a...