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Business on top, pajamas underneath: Walmart is selling work shirts, but not so many pants
BY JACOB BOGAGE // The Washington Post, March 28, 2020 With the rise of video conferences, workers realize they need professional tops, but not bottoms. A few more shelves might be looking bare at Walmarts around the country, or at least a few more bins empty at fulfillment warehouses. Customers are making...Learn More
How America Shops® In a COVID-19 Crisis
This is WSL’s first look at how Shopping Life® is changing in ways that will affect you now and long term. There is already one finding that we are confident to predict: A lasting change in the path to purchase for basic groceries and health products. It is not too...Learn More
In A Coronavirus World, Shoppers Demand to be Well | EP02
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann, WSL’s CEO & Chief Shopper, interviews Elizabeth Gretkowski, senior consultant at WSL, about The Big Business of WELL. They discuss how shoppers are responding in this time of heightened anxiety, their underlying mindset, share insights from WSL’s How America Shops® research, and define the long-term...Learn More
Caring During COVID-19 Crisis: Learning from Costco, CVS, Alibaba and Others
The most important acts retailers and brands can take while scrambling to adapt to the COVID-19 epidemic are acts of kindness. Based on the results of our recent “Caring Score” research, shoppers are most likely to stick to those retailers and brands that are proving now that they care about...Learn More
Gen Z Changes How You Need to Deliver WELLness
Generation Z did not have to learn to live WELL…they were born into a universe of fitness, knowing good food vs. bad food, drinking water, paying for organic, snacking on nutrition bars, demanding “free-from products”, monitoring their fitness, and accepting virtual health providers for physical and mental health. Gen Z’s...Learn More
‘Medtailing’, Medical & Retail, Is Here To Stay
BY KAREN KROLL // National Retail Federation, February 26, 2020 Changing demographics are helping drive continued interest in the mix of retail and health care. While many areas of bricks-and-mortar retailing face headwinds, one shows signs of growth and promise: health care and medical services offered within stores and shopping centers. These...Learn More