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In Coresight Research’s Supply Chain Briefing series, we examine key challenges and developments on retail’s supply side and their implications for the retail environment.

In this report, we examine how the global retail supply chain remains in turmoil due to the lockdowns in Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities in China. We also look at the threat of cyberattacks in supply chains, recent logistics-related acquisitions and the potential impact of the Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act.

Click here to read the previous report in the series, in which we explore how the lockdowns in China are impacting the global supply chain, companies’ decisions to charter their own freighters and the US government’s funding allocation to bolster US ports and waterways.

Click here to read more Coresight Research coverage of the retail supply chain.

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Coresight Research’s May 23, 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 shoppers are buying online and in-store
  • What consumers are doing and where they are going—including avoidance of public places
  • 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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The Coresight Research team attended Aptos Engage 2022 in Scottsdale, Arizona, from May 16 to 19.

In this report, we present key insights from the conference, covering covering the current challenges in retail—such as inflation and customer loyalty—and Aptos management’s vision for unified commerce.

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Household care product sales will experience stronger than pre-pandemic growth in 2022. The household care category includes household cleaning products, laundry products and paper products. This report provides the following key information:

  • US market size and forward estimates
  • Analysis of factors such as inflation
  • Revenues of leading companies in the US

Companies discussed in this report include Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Procter and Gamble (P&G), Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and others.

Learn about the measures consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are taking to make their products more sustainable in our separate report. 

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Introduction

US Household Care: Performance and Outlook

Market Factors

Competitive Landscape

Themes We Are Watching

What We Think

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Short-term volatility can make cryptocurrencies appear to be daunting, but their technologies will be crucial for adoption of the metaverse, removing various trade barriers to support high-volume activity and providing consumers with enhanced security in functional virtual economies.

In this report, we explore the development of cryptocurrencies, analyze their technological structure and relationship with the metaverse, and explore what brands and retailers should know as they consider adoption.

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 5G.

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

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Tej Kamaraju, Analyst at Coresight Research, talks about our new research on cryptocurrencies and retail. In this short video, we cover the potential benefits to retailers of cryptocurrency adoption, how cryptocurrencies are a key component of the metaverse and the recent volatile trends in crypto. Subscribers can access our report on cryptocurrencies as a Building Blocks of the Metaverse here.

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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 April 2022, which increased 6% 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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With sourcing procedures and practices facing increasing scrutiny, brands and retailers are increasingly looking to artificial intelligence (AI) programs to improve operational efficiency.

We discuss five key applications of AI across sourcing stages, the challenges they address and innovators offering AI-based solutions.

Read all Coresight Research on AI in retail. Click here for more on retail supply chains.

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Introduction

What’s the Story?

Why It Matters

AI in Sourcing: Coresight Research Analysis

AI Applications

  1. Supplier or Vendor Search
  2. Spend Analysis
  3. Examining, Formulating and Storing Documents
  4. Production Monitoring
  5. Shipping to Destination Markets and Making Payments

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 slowdown in US retail and global inflationary challenges.

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

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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 Allsup’s, L.L. Bean and Wegmans in the US and Geek Retreat, House of Fraser and Savers in the UK. We also discuss quarterly store opening and closure settlements following the release of quarterly company filings this week from Bath & Body Works, Best Buy, Citi Trends, Foot Locker, Nordstrom, Psycho Bunny, Ralph Lauren and Target.

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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The Coresight Research Retail Innovators series examines how key players and startups are disrupting different retail sectors. In this report, we focus on five companies—by Humankind, Calyxia, Med-X, MyForestFoods and waterdrop—currently disrupting various categories of the CPG market with their sustainability and product efficacy innovations.

We provide company profiles and consider the following key topics for each innovator:

  • How the company has disrupted the market
  • Landscape, tailwinds and headwinds
  • Impact on traditional players

Click here to read the previous report in our Retail Innovators series, which looks at five technology companies that are disrupting the global luxury market.

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Introduction

What’s the Story?

Why It Matters

CPG Innovators: Coresight Research Analysis

  1. by Humankind
  2. Calyxia
  3. Med-X
  4. MyForest Foods
  5. waterdrop

What We Think

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This Retail-Tech Landscape comprises selected startups globally offering innovative solutions for returns management in retail.

We cover returns reduction, physical drop-off, post-return management and more.

To view more of our Retail-Tech Landscapes spotlighting innovators that are disrupting the retail industry, click here.

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Retail-Tech Landscape: Returns Management

Returns Management Trends in Retail

Retail-Tech Landscape: Returns Management—Infographic

Retail-Tech Landscape: Returns Management, by Category

Returns Reduction

Returns Experience

Physical Drop-off

Overseas Returns

Post-Return Management

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Swarooprani Muralidhar, Senior Analyst at Coresight Research, talks about our new research on the global luxury goods market. In this short video, we cover the luxury market’s trajectory, the impact of recent major macro factors, digitalization and the growing importance of China’s luxury consumers. Subscribers can access our Market Outlook on luxury goods retailing here.

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

  • Factors driving its growth
  • Market reactions to the current inflationary environment
  • The competitive landscape
  • Market themes we are watching

Read about mergers and acquisitions in the global luxury market and our coverage of Decentraland’s recent Metaverse Fashion Week.

Watch the video that accompanies this Market Outlook: Swarooprani Muralidhar, Senior Analyst at Coresight Research and the writer of this report, talks about our new research on the global luxury goods market. Click here to access the short video.

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What’s the Story?

Market Performance and Outlook

Market Factors

Online Market

Competitive Landscape

Retail Innovators

Themes We Are Watching

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 April 17, 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.