Retail Data and Insights: What’s New from Coresight Research

Newly added to our Coronavirus Tracker are:

• Capital raising by selected major retail companies—including details of debt and equity raising actions.
• Management changes at selected major retail companies.
• Financial guidance updates by selected major retail companies—including the revision and withdrawal of guidance in the wake of the crisis.
• A list of bankruptcies of retail companies during the coronavirus outbreak period.

New in our Coronavirus Insights reports are:

• Our weekly surveys of US consumers—including what activities they expect to do or categories they expect to spend on once lockdowns end. We’ve been tracking US shopper behavior and sentiment on the coronavirus outbreak weekly since mid-March, enabling us to trend the changes in how consumers are acting and what they are thinking. Select findings are available each week to nonsubscribers.
• Our discussion of three consumer trends that have endured from the lockdowns in China.
• Our analysis of the impacts of the ongoing lockdown on India’s retail sector: we explore how retailers have responded to the crisis.

Away from the coronavirus crisis, this week sees the launch of our Amazon Databank, which offers subscribers an abundance of proprietary data on the retail giant. This includes Coresight Research survey data on rates of purchasing for different categories on Amazon.com, including data that are trended year to year for apparel and groceries; penetration rates for Amazon Prime membership in the US; Amazon’s global and US gross merchandise volume (GMV) and its US e-commerce market share; and more. Find all the data here.