Rising costs and uneven income growth are changing how Americans shop. Today, more than 90% of grocery customers are uncommitted, spreading trips across banners to maximize value for their households.

According to the DTC Collective, a newly formed think tank conceived by Fayez Mohamood, cofounder and chief executive officer of the retail technology company Bluecore, retailers are unsure if new ...

The retail giant is noticing a concerning consumer trend. In the company’s third-quarter earnings report for 2024, Target revealed that its comparable sales only increased by a measly 0.3% during the ...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will affect both current and future generations. Because of the scale of this pandemic, many experts say there will be irreversible changes to the economy, how ...

Retailers consumed with survival might find it hard to plan ahead for the holidays as they normally would this time of year. But there’s a strong argument that it matters now more than ever. That’s ...

Interactions, a leader in innovative retail services and experiential marketing for retailers and brands, discovered that despite differences in shopping patterns between men and women, the two ...

With inflation becoming a pressing concern for most consumers, the desire for rewards and other shopping incentives has increased. We examine these incentives’ impact on consumer shopping behavior and ...

In my first article in this series, I laid out an approach for identifying the modes that people get into, and I introduced the idea of a mode map. For part two, I’d like to apply mode map thinking to ...

A crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates shopping trends. Before COVID-19, shoppers were gaining more control in the shopping battleground. When the 2020 pandemic hit, this movement exploded, ...

Do you shop ‘til you drop? Do you find yourself buying things impulsively, feeling good in the moment, and later regretting it...or find yourself clicking the buy now button into the wee hours, when ...

Recently, we announced the results of a survey on the impact of Coronavirus on purchase decisions and behavior which found that overall all generations are worried about Coronavirus, and Millennials ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shelley E. Kohan covers the retail industry and is based in New York. The coronavirus pandemic will have a profound impact on ...