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Deep Dive | June 17, 2025 Free Report

The State of In-Store Retailing 2025: The Dawn of New-Age Stores, Powered by Technology

Store intelligence technologies offer transformative potential to optimize brick-and-mortar retail operations. Dive into our survey-driven insights on how to tackle inefficiencies and protect margins. This is our second annual study diving into the state of in-store retailing, offering year-over-year data comparisons. This report is produced and made available to non-subscribers of Coresight Research in partnership with Simbe.

Insight Report | June 16, 2025 Premium

Retail Under Pressure: How Will Tariffs Disrupt the Back-to-School and Holiday Seasons?

Discover how retailers are adjusting their strategies ahead of the 2025 back-to-school and end-of-year holiday seasons in response to recent and potential changes to tariffs.

Analyst Corner | June 15, 2025

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Analyst Corner: Exploring IKEA’s City Stores Worldwide, with John Mercer

In this week’s Analyst Corner, John Mercer, Head of Global Research, discusses new openings by IKEA, based on our observations from store tours. We consider what the new store formats and features reveal about wider retail real estate trends in Western markets and in the furniture retail sector specifically.

Infographic | June 13, 2025 Free Report

Three Data Points We’re Watching This Week, Week 24: Consumer Sentiment Improves: US vs. China

Discover key data points we are watching in week 24 of 2025. This week, we highlight consumers’ expectations for their personal financial situation, presenting proprietary survey findings on consumer sentiment in the US and China.

Store Tracker | June 13, 2025 Databank Members

Weekly UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2025, Week 24: Matalan To Open Stores; Poundland Continues To Shutter Stores

Our Weekly UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker series reports on store closures, openings and bankruptcies in the UK. This week, we highlight store opening and closure news at Anthropologie, Matalan, Poundland and Superdry, among others.

Store Tracker | June 13, 2025 Databank Members

Weekly US Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2025, Week 24: Casey’s To Open 80 Stores; Torrid To Close 180 Stores

Our Weekly US Store Openings and Closures Tracker series reports on store closures, openings and bankruptcies in the US. This week, we highlight the latest store opening and closure announcements from Casey’s, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Torrid, as well as the announcement of a new Chief Operating Officer at Kirkland’s.

Insight Report | June 12, 2025 Premium

Retail-Tech Landscape: Retail Media

Retail media is reshaping the advertising landscape, providing data-driven targeting. Read this Retail-Tech Landscape to discover key solution providers that are helping retailers to build and optimize their retail media capabilities.

Infographic | June 12, 2025 Premium

High-Income Consumers’ Financial Sentiment Reaches New Peak: Weekly US Consumer Sentiment, Week 24, 2025—Infographic

Our latest weekly update on US consumer sentiment, based on proprietary survey findings, reveals improvement in consumers’ economic and financial outlooks, driven by high-income consumers.

Deep Dive | June 11, 2025 Premium

US Retail and Consumer Outlook: June 2025

We consider the US macroeconomic outlook for 2025 as of the start of June 2025, including metrics that directly impact the consumer economy and in the context of the myriad of recent tariffs announcements made by the US government.

Deep Dive | June 11, 2025 Databank Members

Consumer Sentiment Shows Signs of Improvement Amid Temporary Tariff Reduction: China Consumer Survey Insights

We analyze proprietary survey data to uncover consumer sentiment, behavior and shopping trends in China. This report reveals a rebound in economic and financial optimism following the US government’s announcement of a temporary reduction in tariffs.

Infographic | June 10, 2025 Free Report

Earnings Insights 1Q25, Week 7: Dollar Stores See Growth Amid Tariff Pressures—Infographic

Discover the latest revenue and EPS (earnings per share) data from week seven of the 1Q25 (first quarter of 2025) earnings season with this infographic, covering various companies that reported in the week ended June 8, 2025, including Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Petco and more.

Deep Dive | June 10, 2025 Databank Members

High-Income Consumers’ Financial Sentiment Reaches New Peak; Facebook Slumps in Social Commerce: US Consumer Survey Insights

We analyze new survey findings on consumers’ economic and financial outlooks, in total and by income group. Plus, we spotlight social commerce, revealing which social media platforms are popular for shopping and which product categories are bought at the highest rates.

Insight Report | June 9, 2025 Premium

US Retail in the Rest of 2025: Normalized Demand and Leaner Inventories Ahead of a High-Stakes Holiday Season

We offer 10 predictions for the rest of 2025, and outline core economic dynamics that are set to reshape the retail sector in the months ahead. What qualities will set retailers and brands apart? Discover critical insights to stay ahead through 2025.

Analyst Corner | June 8, 2025

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Analyst Corner: From Models to Markets—The Accelerating Shift Toward AI Applications, with Charlie Poon

In this week’s Analyst Corner, Charlie Poon, Analyst, discusses recent AI (artificial intelligence)-focused developments and events—including Amazon’s AWS Summit and Google I/O—that point to a shift in focus from hardware to applications in the world of AI.

Infographic | June 6, 2025 Free Report

Three Data Points We’re Watching This Week, Week 23: US Retail Sectors in Focus

Discover key data points we are watching in week 23 of 2025. This week, we present proprietary survey findings on US consumers’ shopping behavior in the grocery, home and home-improvement sectors.