Analyst CornerAnalyst Corner: In US Apparel and Footwear Retailing, Execution Is Separating Winners from Laggards, with Aditya Kaushik Aditya Kaushik, Analyst Sector Lead: John Mercer, Head of Global Research and Managing Director of Retail Research August 23, 2026 Reasons to ReadEach Analyst Corner features highlights and insights from the respective week’s “Report of the Week”—our featured must-read research report. This week, our featured report was Market Navigator: US Apparel and Footwear—Solid Spending Growth, Shifting Share and Uneven Execution. Discover how US apparel and footwear retailers are competing as resilient category demand combines with shifting market share and uneven execution. Read this report to discover answers to these questions: Understand why strong execution and retail agility are increasingly separating winning apparel and footwear retailers from slower-moving competitors. Learn how value, product relevance, inventory agility and store productivity are influencing where consumers choose to spend. Explore how shoppers’ focus on value, quality, style and convenience is reshaping loyalty across brands, retailers and channels. Get a preview of Coresight Research’s analysis of market growth, channel shifts, retailer performance, store productivity and digital shopping trends. Data in this research report include: US apparel and footwear market growth; channel and retailer performance; store productivity; and consumer loyalty drivers. Other relevant research: All Analyst Corners This document was generated for