Retail took some surprising twists in 2024, as the view forward from 2023 didn’t reveal how the way forward would have so many twists and turns. Of course, some developments fell into old patterns and some weaker retailers fell by the wayside. Meanwhile, an...
Brigit, a financial company offering an app designed to help lower-income consumers manage money, has released its 2024 Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending report, which identified an increase in spending by paycheck-to-paycheck consumers in the period from Black...
A gifting study commissioned by e-commerce marketing platform Omnisend and conducted by market researcher Cint, revealed parents are most often first on gift shopping lists this holiday season. Omnisend reported 51.2% of respondents said mothers and/or fathers are on...
Not to be outdone by low-price Chinese retailers such as Shein and Temu, Amazon has launched a beta test in the United States of what it has dubbed Haul, a storefront chock full of low priced goods sold under somewhat different terms than is the case in the main...
The upcoming holiday presents challenges for retailers fighting it out through a shopping period with the fewest number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas since 2019 and with 43% of consumers carrying more debt than they held in 2023. Data from the Salesforce...
