Deep Dive | May 15, 2019 Premium Coresight Matrix: Computer Vision Solutions for Product SearchCoresight Matrix is a new product series designed to help our subscribers better understand a number of segments and key players within the retail-technology industry. The first of the series focus on computer vision, which has seen rapid adoption in retail over the last few years. Read More
Deep Dive | May 14, 2019 Premium US Online Grocery Survey 2019Our second annual survey of grocery shopping habits found that while more than one-third of US consumers now buy groceries online, 72% of those shoppers direct only a small amount of their total grocery spend online. Read More
Deep Dive | April 30, 2019 Premium US Drugstores are Turning into Purveyors of Beauty and WellnessIn this report, we explore what two major US drugstore retailers, CVS Health (CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (Walgreens), have done and examine the opportunities for them in the beauty and wellness space. Read More
Deep Dive | April 24, 2019 Premium Male Makeup: Going Mainstream in Asia and Slowly Gaining Traction in the USMale makeup is an emerging category. Male consumers globally are challenging the definitions of masculinity and femininity as men are increasingly wearing men’s makeup products. Read More
Deep Dive | April 22, 2019 Premium Success in China E-Commerce: Your Tmall 101Alibaba’s Tmall accounted for 60% of gross merchandise volume (GMV) in the online retail business-to-consumer (B2C) market in China in the third quarter of 2018, according to China Internet Watch and Analysis. Read More
Deep Dive | April 18, 2019 Premium Aldi and Lidl’s Impact in the UK: Reviewing Five Fightback Strategies Among Nondiscount Grocery RetailersAldi and Lidl have brought major disruption to the UK grocery market — and they could be on course to add another £9 billion of combined sales over the next five years. In this report, we review five measures major UK grocery retailers have taken to fight Aldi and Lidl, and how successful each has been. Read More
Deep Dive | April 15, 2019 Premium US Millennials and Grocery: An Aging Millennial Demographic is Creating an Older/Younger DivideYounger millennials shop at mass merchandisers, spend on wellness and fitness, and try to buy consciously. Millennials aged 30+ are more likely than their younger peers to look for savings, shop at traditional supermarkets and buy groceries online. Read More
Deep Dive | April 11, 2019 Premium The Greater Bay Area, or “China’s Silicon Valley”: What is It, How Will It Develop and How Can Businesses Benefit?The Greater Bay Area could be China’s answer to Silicon Valley. On February 18, 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council of the People’s Republic of China released a development plan for the Greater Bay Area. Read More
Deep Dive | April 10, 2019 Premium Online to Offline Beauty: Brands That Are Winning by Understanding the Digital Consumer and Then Going PhysicalDigitally native beauty brands are opening stores and differentiating through customer experiences. Opening a physical store increases online traffic by 45%, according to the ICSC. Read More
Deep Dive | April 2, 2019 Premium Reviewing America’s Retail Bankruptcies: What Can We Learn from the Slew of Recent Retail Failures?This report discusses notable US retail bankruptcies in 2017-2018 and examines key factors that led retailers to collapse. Read More
Deep Dive | April 1, 2019 Premium US Retailers Becoming More Relevant Through Acquisitions: Mass Merchandisers vs. AmazonM&A activity has risen in the US retail sector over the past 10 years, in terms of deal value and number of deals, and the same trend applies within the mass-merchandiser sector. Read More
Deep Dive | March 22, 2019 Premium Strong Demand for Value, E-Commerce and Sportswear Sustains Pressure on Europe’s Middleground Apparel RetailersAcross major European economies, floundering midmarket behemoths are finding business more challenging than ever, leaving a number of apparel retailing stalwarts suffering what seems to be “death by a thousand cuts.” Read More
Deep Dive | March 15, 2019 Premium Artificial Intelligence in Retail, Part 3: What Startups Are Doing with AIThis is the third report in a short series looking at artificial intelligence (AI) in retail. In this report, we explore what startups are doing with AI in the context of our proprietary CORE framework, which stands for Communication, Optimization of pricing, Rationalization of inventory and Experiential retail. Read More
Deep Dive | March 11, 2019 Premium Amazon Beauty: Who Is Selling What? An Exclusive Analysis of Over 200,000 Beauty and Personal Care Listings on Amazon.comWe analyze Amazon’s beauty and personal care offering, based on aggregated data on over 200,000 products listed on Amazon.com’s US beauty website, collated with competitive intelligence provider DataWeave. We also include summary data from our recent survey of US beauty and personal care shoppers. Read More
Deep Dive | March 8, 2019 Premium Blockchain in Retail: Decentralizing the Digitalization of Retail OperationsBlockchain technology has the potential to disrupt retail as it can decentralize processes through which retailers interact with partners, industry players and consumers, making operations more efficient and secure. We looked into the implications for this technology Read More
