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Innovation Makes Unlikely Brands Part of Celebrations
With a little imagination, your business can be part of holidays and celebrations too. This Retail Safari® is a quick, fourteen-page snapshot of how different retailers are displaying more brands with the right innovation as part of a holiday celebration or seasonal preparation. Be inspired by how your category can...Learn More
The Biggest Consumer Shopping Trends of 2023
WSL has been following the path of consumer shopping for decades. And through 2022, shoppers led us on a more focused, lifestyle-specific retail trip. To prepare for 2023, we culled through our How America Shops® and Retail Safari® market research, and zeroed in on seven big trends that predict what’s...Learn More
How Retail Can Be A Solution for Loneliness with Matthew Liebmann | EP44
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann talks with Matthew Liebmann, Chief Innovation & Data Officer at Vista Group about the role of physical experiences in addressing the increasingly disturbing societal issues of loneliness. They discuss: Loneliness and the decline of socialization prior to the pandemic, and its continuing impact across populations The opportunities...Learn More
Shopping During Inflation: Long Slog vs. Whiplash? | EP39
In this episode: WSL’s Wendy Liebmann, CEO, and Candace Corlett, President, discuss how shoppers are dealing with spiraling price increases, how this moment is different from 2008, and how companies need to respond. They preview WSL’s upcoming Wellness study (The New Wellness Frontier). And the baseball season. (Yes, really!) They...Learn More
Choosing the Right Wellness Products Is Exhausting
Retailers and brands have responded enthusiastically to the shoppers’ preference for more wellness in their everyday products, with healthier options in food, personal care, beauty and health categories. But when the aisles deliver overwhelming choices, often with competing wellness promises on every shelf, has it become too much of a...Learn More
What’s On Trend For Retail In 2022? Here Are 5 Predictions
By Bryan Pearson on December 3, 2021 || Forbes If the past two years have taught the retail industry anything, it’s to meet the unexpected, eye-to-eye, with more of the unexpected. Unexpected as in surprising channels, unpredictable brand partnerships and even a dose of the expected. Because consumer desires have not changed;...Learn More