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Not Your Regular Mall-Based Stores: Part One—Ship from Store Presents a Profitable Online Order-Fulfillment Opportunity

Leveraging their mall-based stores to fulfill online orders presents huge opportunity for retailers to reduce store-based inventories, manage reverse logistics, meet consumer demand more efficiently and thus improve their top and bottom line. Leveraging proprietary survey findings, Coresight Research and Fillogic explore this opportunity, with a focus on the “ship from store” order-fulfillment model.

US Back to School 2021: Online versus Offline

As part of our US Back to School 2021 series, we discuss our expectations for online and offline shopping this season, using proprietary US consumer survey findings. We present our estimates for digital and physical sales, in-store traffic and e-commerce penetration.

US Department Store Insights: Assessing Recoveries and Outlooks

Ahead of second-quarter earnings, we review metrics on US department stores’ recoveries so far. We focus on the three leading chains—Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom. We discuss trends in comparable sales, revenue, digital sales, trending categories and areas of note by management. We also summarize the three department stores’ outlook for fiscal 2021.

US Store Tracker Extra, July 2021: Major US Retailers To Open 61 Million Square Feet of Retail Space in 2021

The US Store Tracker Extra monthly series offers insight into retailers’ store closure and opening announcements. We include details on closures and openings as a percentage of total store base as well as square-footage impact. This report also offers a comparison between year-to-date announced closures and openings, as of July 30, 2021, versus the comparable period in 2020.

US Travel Recovery Ebook

The recovery of travel in the US from the heavy impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic is now fully under way. Using proprietary survey findings, Coresight Research’s US Travel Recovery ebook explores the implications for retail of consumers’ return to travel through summer 2021 and the remainder of the year.

Aldi, Lidl and Grocery Outlet: Impacts in US Grocery

Discounters make an outsized dent in the US grocery market, given the channel’s small size relative to other grocery retail channels and maintained strong growth momentum amid the pandemic. In this report, we discuss the developments of grocery discounters in the US and their impact on traditional grocery retailers, covering Aldi, Lidl and Grocery Outlet.

Playbook: Inclusivity in Retail

Inclusivity is a movement that is being propelled by societal forces. It is a thread that runs through every part of an organization. In this Playbook, we present five strategies for brands and retailers to align inclusivity goals across their products and operations.