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Coresight Research’s June 27, 2022, survey provides a detailed update on US consumers’ behavior and expectations, with a focus on the implications for US retail.

This week’s US Consumer Tracker covers the following:

  • What consumers are doing and where they are going—including avoidance of public places
  • What shoppers are buying online and in-store
  • Which retailers consumers are buying from—for food and nonfood purchases

Complementing our weekly survey reports, our monthly US Consumer Tracker Extra series offers additional insight, including long-term consumer trends and a detailed analysis of where current patterns will lead in the coming months. Click here to view our full collection of US Consumer Tracker and US Consumer Tracker Extra reports.

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In our quarterly US Retail Inventory Tracker reports, we analyze inventory trends among US retailers listed in the Coresight 100.

In this report, we look at the inventory levels of various retailers in 1Q22 and assess why levels may have changed from the year-ago period, across the following sectors:

  • Apparel specialty retail—Academy Sports & Outdoors, American Eagle Outfitters, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Foot Locker, Gap, Lululemon Athletica and Urban Outfitters
  • Beauty retail—Bath & Body Works and Ulta Beauty
  • Department stores—Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom
  • Discount stores—Big Lots, Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Five Below
  • Drugstores—CVS Health and Walgreen Boots Alliance
  • Electronics retail—Best Buy
  • Food and grocery retail—Albertsons Companies, Sprouts Farmers Market, Weis Markets
  • Home and home-improvement retail—Floor & Decor Holdings, Home Depot, Lowe’s Companies, RH, Tractor Supply Company, Wayfair and Williams-Sonoma
  • Jewelry retail—Signet Jewelers
  • Luxury retail—Capri Holdings and Tapestry
  • Mass merchandisers—Target and Walmart
  • Off-price retail—Burlington Stores, Ross Stores and The TJX Companies
  • Warehouse clubs—BJ’s Wholesale Club and Costco

Click here to read the previous report in the series, which looks at 4Q21.

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As we move into peak summer ahead of the new school year, we present our outlook for the US back-to-school (BTS) retail season. We contextualize our overall expectations with macroeconomic data and findings from a proprietary survey of US consumers.

Among the key topics covered in this report are inflation, consumer spending expectations (in dollar terms and unit purchases versus last year), and popular product categories and retailers for BTS shopping.

For more insights into consumer behaviors and expectations in US retail, click here to view our full collection of US Consumer Tracker and US Consumer Tracker Extra reports.

Premium subscribers can also access data from our weekly surveys in our US Consumer Tracker Databank.

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  • The Coresight Research US Apparel and Beauty Spending Trackerprovides a monthly update on the trajectory of consumer spending on beauty, clothing and footwear. The data are sourced from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
  • Consumer spending on clothing and footwear remained solid in May 2022 (latest data available), against strong comparatives. Shoppers upped their spending by 4.0% year over year, lower than April’s growth but higher than March’s growth. We believe that price rises were the major growth driver of the total spending on apparel and footwear in May 2022, with volumes down slightly.

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In recent years, many new payment methods for retailers, brands and businesses have emerged to increase efficiency, reduce costs and help unlock trade barriers. As consumers continue their shift toward a digital life, payment systems and solutions are evolving at a rapid pace—and have been accelerated by the emergence of the metaverse and Web 3.0.

In this report, we explore digital payments in the metaverse, covering the underlying technologies as well as payment solutions and channels. Our discussion covers blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, digital wallets, crypto payment gateways and more—with highlights on MoonPay, Immutable X, Polygon and Arbitrum.

This report is part of our Building Blocks of the Metaverse series, which presents insights into the core technological components of the retail metaverse, including important details for retailers to know in establishing a presence and operating in the virtual space.

Read the previous report in the series, on cryptocurrencies.

Click here to read more Coresight Research coverage of the metaverse.

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We are seeing apparel brands and companies increase their capital expenditures in 2022. In this report, we explore the following: 

  • Comparison of companies’ capital expenditures in 2021 versus 2022
  • The top five areas of capital expenditure 
  • Examples of company spending in each area 

Read more coverage of apparel and footwear retail here. 

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This is a time of further recovery for apparel brands and retailers, following the pandemic disruption of 2020 and 2021. We identify 10 trends in global apparel and footwear retail, covering a number of key topics:

  • Launches of private labels
  • Better wholesale solutions and smarter supply chains
  • New ways to engage with customers and innovations in physical retail stores
  • Overperformance at the luxury end of the market
  • Retail collaborations
  • The expansion of sustainability and inclusivity
  • Fashion in the metaverse

Learn more in-depth about innovations in retail stores, brand collaborations, inclusivity and fashion in the metaverse. Read our coverage of the supply chain here.

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Introduction

10 Trends in Global Apparel and Footwear Retail: Coresight Research Analysis

  1. Private Brands Launched To Create Differentiated Products
  2. Better Wholesale Solutions
  3. Smarter Strategies for Direct Consumer Engagement
  4. Building Resilient and Flexible Supply Chains
  5. Outperformance in Luxury Apparel and Footwear
  6. Retail Collaborations
  7. Fashion in the Metaverse
  8. Inclusivity
  9. Sustainability
  10. Innovations in Apparel Physical Stores

What We Think

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In each report in the Weinswig’s Weekly series, Coresight Research CEO and Founder Deborah Weinswig reflects on a topical theme in retail. This week’s note “From the Desk of Deborah Weinswig” discusses the state of the BNPL (buy now pay later) industry.

Each report also includes recent retail and technology headlines from Asia, Europe and the US.

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Our Market Outlooks for luxury retail in the US, Asia and Europe examine the scale, composition and trajectory of the regional markets, as well as key themes we are watching.

We present our key findings on market sizes and growth factors in this free infographic.

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In this Market Outlook, we examine the scale, composition and trajectory of the personal luxury market in Europe, including:

  • Factors driving its growth
  • Market reactions to the current inflationary environment
  • The competitive landscape, including the influence of companies like Kering and LVMH
  • Market themes we are watching through 2022 and beyond

If you would like to know more about the luxury market, read our previous Market Outlook on the global luxury market or watch the short video that accompanies the Outlook.

This report is part of a series of three Market Outlooks on regional luxury goods markets—read our reports on the US and Asia.

Contents (Click to navigate)

Introduction

Market Performance and Outlook

Market Factors

Online Market

Competitive Landscape

Themes We Are Watching

Retail Innovators

What We Think

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Our Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker reports on store closures, openings and bankruptcies. We cover:

  • A week-by-week comparison of store openings and closures in the US and UK in year-to-date 2022
  • What is happening in retail in the US and UK this week
  • 2021 and year-to-date 2022 major US and UK store openings, store closures and bankruptcies

This week, there are highlights from Alimentation Couche-Tard, Buc-ee’s and Chico’s, among others, in the US and FatFace, Frasers Group and HMV, among others, in the UK. We also discuss Revlon’s recent bankruptcy announcement and quarterly store opening and closure settlements following the release of quarterly company filings from Kroger.

Click here to view our full collection of Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker reports.

Complementing our weekly report, the Coresight Research US Store Tracker Databank offers our premium subscribers access to openings and closures data from 2012 to 2022 year to date, filterable by sector and year.

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This year’s 6.18 Shopping Festival fell at an interesting time, testing the appetite of Chinese consumers amid continued lockdowns and supply chain disruptions that have dominated the country in 2022.

In this report, we discuss the performance of e-commerce platforms such as JD.com and Alibaba’s Tmall and cover three key trends that we saw during this year’s 6.18 event:

  1. Optimization of online shopping services
  2. Shifts in consumption patterns across consumer groups
  3. Enhanced logistics infrastructure

For more on the China market and, specifically, the country’s shopping festivals, read our Singles Day coverage.

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The Coresight Research US Apparel and Beauty Spending Tracker provides a monthly update on the trajectory of consumer spending on beauty, clothing and footwear. Our latest report covers spending from May 2022, which increased 4% year over year.

We discuss changes in US consumer spending, year over year across the following sectors:

  • Footwear
  • Clothing, comprising the subcategories of children’s, women’s and men’s clothing
  • Selected beauty categories

Coresight Research’s monthly reports keep you up to date on retail sales (in total and by sector) and key consumer indicators, focusing on the US, the UK and China. Click here to view our full collection of monthly reports.

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In this Market Outlook, we examine the scale, composition and trajectory of the personal luxury market in Asia, including:

  • Factors driving its growth
  • Market reactions to the current inflationary environment
  • The competitive landscape, including the influence of companies such as Chow Tai Fook Jewellery and LVMH
  • Market themes we are watching through 2022 and beyond

If you would like to know more about the luxury market, read our previous Market Outlook on the global luxury market or watch the short video that accompanies the Market Outlook.

This report is part of a series of three Market Outlooks on regional luxury goods markets—read our reports on the US and Europe.

Contents (Click to navigate)

Introduction

Market Performance and Outlook

Market Factors

Online Market

Competitive Landscape

Themes We Are Watching

Retail Innovators

What We Think

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The Coresight Research and IRI monthly US CPG Sales Tracker provides our data-driven insights into online sales trends in the US CPG industry—covering the product categories of food & beverage, health & beauty, and general merchandise & homecare.

In this free report, we present five key insights from the four weeks ended May 15, 2022, across the following metrics:

  • Year-over-year growth of CPG e-commerce sales versus growth in total CPG sales
  • Online sales growth by category type
  • Breakdown of online sales by category
  • Online sales growth of food & beverage departments
  • Online sales growth of nonfood departments such as beauty and homecare

Click here to read more reports in our US CPG Sales Tracker series.

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