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Shoppers’ Economy and How They’ve Learned to Cope

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Future Now Future Next — Volume 1 [ 2024 ] The shopper is feeling more financially secure (or are they?) but the population is shifting. This Future Now Future Next delivers input for your new retail strategy. Our latest shopper insights – at your fingertips Our national How America Shops® surveys explain what’s driving shopping ... Read more

The New Journey to Wellness: A Retail Opportunity

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Future Now Future Next — Volume 4 [ 2023 ] Innovations and conversations around men and women's health is being led by online sites that are willing to address taboo topics like menopause and erectile dysfunction. The Future Next is for retailers and brands to find discrete ways to address these topics in store aisles, ... Read more

Leading Shoppers from Troubles to Joy

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The pandemic was the catalyst for what the Irish call the “Troubles” that expanded to social and political unrest, the erosion of trust in the tools we use for shopping, and what started as inflation shoppers now feel is a permanent price correction. This report updates the shopping and social behaviors changed by permanent inflation. ... Read more

Shoppers Say: Inflated Prices are Here to Stay

Shoppers are adjusting their shopping behaviors and budgets for the long haul as 90% expect the high inflation prices they are experiencing today to be around for a long time to come. Over 2/5 of shoppers are cutting back on how they spend in order to cover their basic bills like utilities and housing and groceries, with adjustments that ... Read more

The Next Wellness Frontier

Will WELLness ever mean the same thing again? So much disruption: digital access, shifting trust, more products, more services… but the pandemic was not the only catalyst for change. In this report we sort out the opportunities for The Next WELLness Frontier. The Next Frontier of WELLness will be defined by new strategies: Fragmented categories: It ... Read more

Struggling Shoppers!

This report is the second in our series designed to give retailers and brands a better understanding of the impact of rising prices on shoppers - their demographics, buying behaviors and the changes they’ve made - so that you will be equipped to meet their shopping needs and budget. No shopper left behind. In our ... Read more

The Role of the Store in Retail 5.0

The self-serve store has not changed since the 1950s. Tweaks have been made but the basic format of walking the aisles, squinting at the shelves to find the right item, and then waiting in line to pay has not changed in 3/4 of a century. The pandemic has drawn retailers’ attention to honing online ordering ... Read more

Rising Prices Everywhere

Higher prices on everything from carryout tacos to gas in the car have gotten shoppers’ attention, and 85% have had to rethink their spending. The new WSL report, Rising Prices Everywhere, prepares you to respond by knowing where your category is on the shoppers’ “cut back” list. This report ranks 22 consumer product categories, on the shoppers’ cut ... Read more

From Chaos Comes Clarity: A Future Now-Future Next Study

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WSL’s annual forecast on where shoppers are headed and what companies need to focus on in the coming 18 - 24 months. Based on WSL's How America Shops® research, this Future Now-Future Next study reveals: How shoppers have been transformed by the pandemic (and not) Where and how they're shopping (It's not only the Internet) ... Read more

My Random Shopping Life

The evidence is all around us - shopping is becoming more and more digital. For some, buying online has become a way of life… their primary method of getting the shopping done, regardless of whether it’s the weekly grocery trip, the quick fill-in trip for tonight’s dinner or the impulse purchase of a luxury item. For ... Read more

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