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The pandemic provided luxury department stores with an opportunity to reinvent themselves following pressure from the consumer shift to online and brands’ movement away from wholesale in the department store sector in recent years.

Read our outlook for the global luxury department store sector and explore five key ways in which major players are evolving to remain relevant.

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The e-commerce apparel market presents growth opportunities, especially for companies that can innovate to offer interactive experiences and address increasing last-mile costs.

In this E-Commerce Outlook, we examine the size and trajectory of the US online apparel and footwear sector and present key market drivers, industry players, themes and innovators.

Learn more about apparel specialty retailers in the US, UK and China in our Market Outlook.

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Introduction

E-Commerce Performance and Outlook

Market Factors

Competitive Landscape

Themes We Are Watching

E-Commerce Innovators

What We Think

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On March 27, 2022, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee and feature on the judging panel of Shoptalk 2022’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which will see 15 early-stage US retail-technology innovators compete to win the Shark’s Choice and Audience Choice awards.

In the lead-up to the event, we are profiling the participating innovators. In this free report, we present Mavi.io, a technology provider that brings a retail marketplace for curated shopping to car dashboards.

This report forms part of our Innovator Profile series, which focuses on emerging technologies that are disrupting traditional retail and fueling innovation across the retail value chain.

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Coresight Research has identified inclusivity—providing equal access for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized—as a key trend to watch in retail and a component trend of Coresight Research’s RESET framework for change.

We explore progress in 2021 and present our expectations for the development of inclusivity in retail in 2022, across areas such as adaptive products, gender-free and plus-size offerings, and the diversification of suppliers.

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Introduction

What’s the Story?

Why It Matters

Inclusivity in Retail—Trends from 2021, Learnings for 2022: Coresight Research Analysis

Adaptive Retail Moves Beyond Apparel and Footwear

Gender-Free Merchandise Extends into More Categories

The Plus-Size Market Is Expanding

Brands and Suppliers Are Improving Diversity

Investments Increasingly Focus on Diversity and Inclusion Programs

What We Think

Appendix: About Coresight Research’s RESET Framework

 

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  • Coresight Research has identified corporate evolution as a key trend to watch in retail and a component trend of Coresight Research’s RESET framework for change.
  • In 2021, the overall value of VC funding transactions in the US retail and consumer goods industry more than doubled from 2020 to $6.5 billion, despite a slight reduction in the number of transactions.
  • VC financing transactions included companies in the consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors, such as apparel and footwear stores, automotive retailers, breweries, consumer electronics manufacturers, food retailers, furniture and home-furnishing retailers, Internet and direct marketing retailers, packaged foods manufacturers, personal care products manufacturers, restaurants, sporting goods retailers and software retailers, among others.
  • We expect the strong retail-focused VC funding trends (in terms of value) in the US to continue in 2022.

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Coresight Research’s March 14, 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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On March 27, 2022, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee and feature on the judging panel of Shoptalk 2022’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which will see 15 early-stage US retail-technology innovators compete to win the Shark’s Choice and Audience Choice awards.

In the lead-up to the event, we are profiling the participating innovators. In this free report, we present Returnmates, a shipping and returns retail-tech company.

This report forms part of our Innovator Profile series, which focuses on emerging technologies that are disrupting traditional retail and fueling innovation across the retail value chain.

For more on the returns challenge in retail, read our separate report, US Retail Returns: Reshaping Customer-Focused E-Commerce.

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We explore the advantages, background and key details of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), as well as notable examples of NFTs in the retail metaverse.

This report is the first in our new 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.

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In January and February 2022, year-over-year sales growth accelerated while online retail sales decelerated.

We review monthly data for retail sales in China in total and by sector, including the following:

  • Retail sales growth over the last 13 months
  • Retail sales growth for 15 sectors across food and nonfood retail, for each of the latest three months
  • Growth in online retail sales

We also present data for two-year retail growth.

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 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 multiyear strategy of major UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) as it announces changes in its leadership.

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

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On March 27, 2022, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee and feature on the judging panel of Shoptalk 2022’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which will see 15 early-stage US retail-technology innovators compete to win the Shark’s Choice and Audience Choice awards.

In the lead-up to the event, we are profiling the participating innovators. In this free report, we present Endear, a client relationship management (CRM) and messaging platform for retailers.

This report forms part of our Innovator Profile series, which focuses on emerging technologies that are disrupting traditional retail and fueling innovation across the retail value chain.

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On March 27, 2022, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee and feature on the judging panel of Shoptalk 2022’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which will see 15 early-stage US retail-technology innovators compete to win the Shark’s Choice and Audience Choice awards.

In the lead-up to the event, we are profiling the participating innovators. In this free report, we present Max Retail, a retail-technology company that helps retailers optimize their inventories through strategic retailer networks.  

This report forms part of our Innovator Profile series, which focuses on emerging technologies that are disrupting traditional retail and fueling innovation across the retail value chain.

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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 Express, Kmart and Shoe Station in the US and Dunelm, Primark and Swift in the UK. We also discuss quarterly store opening and closure settlements following the release of quarterly company filings this week from Alimentation Couche-Tard, Casey’s, The Children’s Place, Citi Trends, Fossil, Rent-A-Center, Tilly’s, Ulta Beauty and Vera Bradley.

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. Click here to view.

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On March 27, 2022, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee and feature on the judging panel of Shoptalk 2022’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which will see 15 early-stage US retail-technology innovators compete to win the Shark’s Choice and Audience Choice awards.

In the lead-up to the event, we are profiling the participating innovators. In this free report, we present EcoCart, a sustainability-focused e-commerce enablement company.

This report forms part of our Innovator Profile series, which focuses on emerging technologies that are disrupting traditional retail and fueling innovation across the retail value chain.

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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 into the four weeks ended February 20, 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

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