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Make Shoppers Happy! Retailers & Brands Need to Face Today’s Challenges Together
Heading into 2027, retailers and brands face fresh and seemingly intractable issues. More shoppers are struggling with higher inflation and the challenges of keeping up with everyday life. More companies are realigning, reorganizing, downsizing and, in general, making teams feel uncomfortable. So, more than ever, companies need to come...Learn More
2027 Watch Outs: What Shoppers Want – What to Be Ready For
In 2026, we accurately predicted that retailers and brands would have to adapt to fast shifts in AI, international brand influence and demand for “new” value. What’s next? We mined our latest shopper research, met with inspirational retailers and other executives around the world, and immersed ourselves in emerging retail...Learn More
Where Wellness Shoppers are Headed, And How You Need to Help
In the past decade, retailers and brands have responded to people’s efforts to take control of their – and their families’ – health and wellness by offering an ever-expanding array of products and services. But the sheer number of choices has overwhelmed consumers. Companies are missing an opportunity here....Learn More
Women's Wellness: Today, Tomorrow, and What Comes Next
For the last decade, WSL Strategic Retail has watched and predicted how people think about their health and the implications it has for retail, brands, and technology. As we built out our April 2026 “How America Shops®: The Wellness Breakdown” report, we noticed that several key audiences were being left...Learn More
Why Sexual Wellness is the Next Big CPG Growth Category with Rachel Marler | EP111
In this episode: In this episode of Future Shop, host Wendy Liebmann sits down with Rachel Marler, the North American Chief Commercial Officer for Lifestyles (the makers of SKYN condoms). Together, they explore the rapid evolution of the sexual and intimate wellness category from a restricted retail afterthought to a crucial...Learn More
What’s Worth It Now? How to Deliver Value to Shoppers Today.
Sure, a product’s value is based on price, but it also is enforced by several other characteristic such as accessibility, experience and healthy principles. It’s time for retailers and brands to rethink why a shopper would want their goods beyond a competitive price, and then figure out how to...Learn More