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We discuss the metrics that Flipkart released for Big Billion Days 2020, following the October 16–21 event.

This report covers the following:

  • Flipkart’s focus on “Tier 2 and beyond” cities
  • The number of page visits, deliveries, sellers and consumers
  • Sales growth across select categories—namely fashion, mobile, electronics, large appliances, furniture and beauty, general merchandise and home

Click here to read all you need to know about Flipkart’s Big Billion Days shopping festival in our previous report.

Click here to read more about the retail industry in India in our recent Retail-Tech Landscape.

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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 year to date in 2020

  • What is happening in retail in the US and UK this week
  • Year-to-date 2020 major US and UK store openings and closures
  • 2020 major US retail bankruptcies
  • New non-store-closure news

This week, there are highlights from Conns Homeplus, Flying Tiger Copenhagen and Target in the US and Poundstretcher and The Co-op in the UK. We also discuss quarterly store opening and closure settlements following the release of quarterly company filings this week.

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

Complementing our weekly Tracker report, the new Coresight Research Retail Store Databank offers our premium subscribers access to openings and closures data from 2012 to 2020 year to date, filterable by sector and year. Click here to view.

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We present Three Things You Need To Know on US Department Stores: Post-Crisis Outlook—Fall 2020 Update. Find the full report here.

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With today’s omnichannel shoppers expecting a seamless shopping experience, effective retail merchandising execution is becoming increasingly important. Retail merchandising technologies, coupled with an in-store execution platform or software, can help retailers bridge the gap between intent in merchandising and actual execution.

With analysis from an August 2020 Coresight Research survey of global retail respondents involved in strategic merchandising decision-making, this report includes insights and discussion around the following topics:

  • The gap between merchandising intent and merchandising execution
  • The impact of effective execution on retailers’ total revenues
  • Top retail merchandising execution challenges
  • Benefits of effective retail merchandising execution
  • Best practices for effective retail merchandising execution
  • Retailers’ use of merchandising software and formal accountability processes
  • Retailers’ desired outcomes from using retail merchandising software

We underline the key opportunities in retail merchandising execution and outline the key benefits of One Door’s AI-powered solution, Store Board, for retailers.

This report is sponsored by One Door, a leading retail merchandising execution platform that helps retailers plan, execute and analyze their in-store merchandising efforts. Non-subscribers can access the report by completing the form below.

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Chinese social commerce platform Little Red Book blends user-generated content and e-commerce. We discuss the growing popularity and influence of the platform, and present four ways in which brands can leverage Little Red Book to raise brand awareness, covering the following key topics:

  1. Online stores
  2. Collaboration with influencers
  3. Livestreaming and short-video content
  4. Paid advertising

Click here to read the previous report in our Insights from China series, which explores China’s domestic duty-free market in the context of Covid-19.

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In our Reshaping Supply Chains for the 2020s series, we analyze the technologies and trends that are enabling the evolution of the supply chain. In this report, we discuss key trends in last-mile delivery processes in the retail industry and what major players are doing to tackle last-mile challenges.

This report considers the following topics:

  • The top shipping carriers used by e-commerce companies in the US
  • How retailers and partnered carriers are expanding last-mile shipping capabilities, including investments made by Amazon, Target and Walmart
  • Developments in last-mile visibility tools to cater to consumer demand—including offerings by FedEx, UPS and USPS
  • Challenges facing retailers in last-mile delivery amidst increasing e-commerce demand and solutions from innovators such as Nuro and Routific
  • Implications for brands, retailers and technology companies

Click here to read our Retail Reimagined report on advancing last-mile delivery with technology.

Read previous reports in our Reshaping Supply Chains for the 2020s series for more information on technologies fueling sales growth, smarter and greener warehousing, and the evolution of manufacturing.

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We present Three Things You Need To Know on US Survey Update—Consumers’ Latest Expectations for Holiday-Season Shopping. Find the full report here.

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In this Market Outlook, we explore the recovery of the US beauty industry in a coronavirus-impacted retail environment.

This report covers the following key content:

  • The size of the US beauty market and expectations for growth in 2020 and 2021—including consumer spending on core beauty categories; beauty specialty retailers’ sales; and e-commerce sales penetration
  • The competitive landscape—including leading retailers and manufacturers; the recent strong online sales growth witnessed by selected brands and retailers; what beauty brands and retailers are reporting on the coronavirus impact and outlook; and the positioning of DTC beauty companies such as Mented Cosmetics and Youth to the People
  • Innovators that are enabling e-commerce expansion in beauty—namely Bambuser, Livescale and Perfect Corp.
  • Key themes in the market—including shifting demand in skin care and makeup categories; opportunities for eye makeup; and the adoption of touchless retail

This report includes highlights from Coty, Bath & Body Works, Estée Lauder, L’Oréal, Sally Beauty, Sephora USA and Ulta Beauty.

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On October 22, 2020, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, will emcee the Women in Retail Leadership Days startup pitch session, in which three innovative, women-led retail-tech startups will present their solutions that solve key problems across retail.

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Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon’s Great Indian Festival are two of India’s largest annual online shopping events. Both shopping sales appear to have got off to a strong start, according to data released by the respective retailers. We discuss highlights from the events so far, including:

  • Sales insights released by Flipkart and Amazon—with detailers of sales numbers, seller and shopper locations, and new customers
  • Headline deals and promotions offered by Flipkart to attract customers during the sale
  • Sales offers and payment options offered by competitor Amazon to compete in India’s fast-growing online retail market

Click here to read all you need to know about Flipkart’s Big Billion Days shopping festival in our previous report.

Click here to read more about the retail industry in India in our recent Retail Tech Landscape. Learn more about subscriptions here.

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On September 29, 2020, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, presented at the California Grocers Association Strategic Conference, providing insights into the trends shaping the future of the grocery sector.

In this report, we present three key takeaways from the event, covering the following topics:

  1. The acceleration of digital progress in grocery
  2. The challenges that face grocers when fulfilling online orders
  3. Optimization of the supply chain in the long term

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Our Consumer Tech Briefing series discusses recent developments in the world of technology. This month we look at new tech company launches to provide interactive virtual travel experiences for housebound travel enthusiasts.

We discuss the following technology developments:

  • The launch of Amazon’s new Explore service that offers live virtual tours of a range of tourist destinations led by local experts
  • Brand USA’s new partnership with Airbnb for experiential stay-at-home tourism
  • The new virtual travel experience launched by virtual reality startup Proxgy
  • Implications for tour companies

Read more about technological innovations in our previous Consumer Tech Briefing report, which looks at look at new foldable screen smartphone releases from Microsoft and Samsung, as well as Amazon’s latest move into the health-care space.

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This report is part of our 12 Weeks of Holidays series, in which we present key data, trends and observations as we count down to the peak holiday season.

We provide findings on how US consumer spending and retail sales have shifted amid Covid-19—and how we expect them to change further for the holiday season. Our discussion focuses on five data sets:

  1. Spending on key service categories such as restaurants, leisure services and travel—we consider how much consumers spent during holiday 2019 and provide our estimates for the holiday quarter in 2020. We discuss what the dollar changes mean for retail.
  2. Exclusive survey findings on shoppers’ expectations to switch spending from services to products during the holiday season—including which retail categories could gain
  3. Discretionary consumer spending shifts so far this year, with a review of the changes in 17 discretionary product and service categories and the total dollar impact
  4. Coresight Research survey data on where holiday shoppers expect to cut their spending this year
  5. Shifts in retail sales this year—we quantify the scale of the increases and decreases in retail sales by sector, from food to home-improvement to nonstore retail, to see where in retail consumer dollars are flowing to.

We consider the opportunities for retailers and provide recommendations to build retail sales this holiday season.

Click here to read the previous report in the 12 Weeks of Holidays series, which discusses last-mile shipping for the holiday season.

Click here to read all Coresight Research coverage of US holiday retail.

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We explore the continued impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on the US department store sector and present an outlook for the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.

This Post-Crisis Outlook covers the following key topics:

  • Our estimates for 2020, with nondiscount and discount department store breakdowns
  • An outlook for 2021—including the expected drivers of recovery
  • Accelerations in department store closures—including announcements from major retailers
  • Highlights from select department stores for the second quarter of 2020—Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom
  • Select retailers’ expansion of their digital presence in the wake of Covid-19
  • Updates on Chapter 11 bankruptcies amid the crisis for JCPenney, Neiman Marcus and Stage Stores
  • Holiday expectations for the 2020 season
  • Trend analysis and insight—including delivery services, in-store fulfillment and growth opportunity categories

Click here to read the Fall 2020 Update to the Post-Crisis Outlook report on US Apparel retail.

Click here to read more Coresight Research Market Outlooks and Post-Crisis Outlooks for other retail sectors.

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