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Ebook: Discount Decades

Our Discount Decades ebook explores the world of discount retailing in the US, covering key players across three sectors—apparel (including off-price), grocery (with a focus on limited-range discounters) and dollar stores (and adjacent discount formats). We discuss retailers’ revenues, profitability, store expansions, demographic profiles, success strategies and future growth potential.

Retail Shrink and ORC: Self-Checkout and Store Closures, the INFORM Consumers Act, US Retailer Commentary

In this first report in our new monthly series on retail shrink and organized retail crime (ORC), we discuss the size of the inventory shrink challenge in the US and present developments in theft and related incidents in the US and the UK from the past few months. We also provide commentary on the topic from US retailers’ recent earnings calls. This report covers the INFORM Consumers Act, Target’s store closures, Walmart’s self-checkout closures and more.