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Event Coverage | September 4, 2025 Free Report

Essential Guide to Groceryshop 2025: Harnessing AI, Shopper Insights and Retail Media to Build Future-Ready Commerce

Coresight Research is a research partner of Groceryshop 2025, an annual conference that helps businesses navigate the evolving grocery landscape, exploring the latest business models, advanced technologies and shifting consumer behaviors. Plan your time at Groceryshop 2025 with this essential guide to key sessions across four retail themes.

Infographic | September 2, 2025 Premium

Holiday Shopping Starts in the Summer: Tariffs Trigger Ultra-Early Holiday Shopping in 2025—Data Graphic

US consumers’ shopping behavior is changing amid new tariffs reinstatement. We review how consumers are changing their holiday 2025 shopping timings based on our latest US consumer data.

Deep Dive | September 2, 2025 Databank Members

The Sentiment Split: Optimism at the Top, Strain at the Bottom; Plus, Social Commerce Shopping in Focus—US Consumer Survey Insights

US consumers’ sentiment is changing amid new tariffs reinstatement. We review two themes from our latest US consumer data: consumer sentiment and social commerce shopping behavior.

Infographic | August 29, 2025 Free Report

Three Data Points We’re Watching This Week, Week 35: US Home and Home-Improvement Focus

Discover selected data insights from Coresight Research. This week, US home and home-improvement retailing in focus.

Infographic | August 28, 2025 Premium

High Earners Drive Economic Sentiment Higher: Weekly US Consumer Sentiment, Week 35, 2025—Infographic

Discover the state of US consumer sentiment with a data graphic featuring weekly Coresight Research survey data.

Deep Dive | August 26, 2025 Databank Members

High-Income Consumers’ Sentiment Soars Ahead; Plus, Home and Home-Improvement Shopping in Focus: US Consumer Survey Insights

How US consumers’ sentiment is changing amid new tariffs reinstatement? We review two themes from our latest US consumer data: consumer sentiment and home and home-improvement shopping behavior.

| August 26, 2025

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From Shop Floor to C-Suite: Rick Brindle’s Journey Shaping Retail and CPG: The Retaili$tic Podcast, S5. EP32

Retail meets real-time insight in this dynamic series hosted by Deborah Weinswig, CEO of Coresight Research—where data, trends, and tech shape the future of retail.

Infographic | August 22, 2025 Free Report

Three Data Points We’re Watching This Week, Week 34: US Retail Sales Outlook

Discover selected data insights from Coresight Research. This week, the US retail outlook.

Event Coverage | August 21, 2025 Premium

Global Outreach Summit 2025 Insights: India’s Digital Leap in Apparel Sourcing and Sustainability

India’s apparel and textile industry is leveraging AI, sustainability and cultural authenticity to strengthen its global position, but a sudden 50% US tariff hike exposes the risks of export dependency. Success will hinge on scaling eco-compliance, accelerating digital adoption and diversifying markets through MSME empowerment.

Infographic | August 21, 2025 Premium

Rolling Metric Declines This Week: Weekly US Consumer Sentiment, Week 34, 2025—Infographic

Discover the state of US consumer sentiment with a data graphic featuring weekly Coresight Research survey data.

Insight Report | August 21, 2025 Premium

August 2025 US Retail Sales Outlook: July Strength and Improved Outlook Score Raise Retail Projection Above 4%

The US Retail Sales Outlook series from Coresight Research includes proprietary, ML-driven retail sales projections and analysis of the macroeconomic context for retailing.

Analyst Corner | August 17, 2025

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Analyst Corner: What Happened with US and China Consumer Sentiment on the Eve of Expected Tariffs? with John Mercer

In this week’s Analyst Corner, John Mercer, Head of Global Research and Managing Director of Data-Driven Research, discusses consumer sentiment trends we are seeing in China and the US, based on data from our proprietary weekly surveys, including the factors that likely supported consumer confidence in China and the US ahead of expected new tariffs.

Infographic | August 15, 2025 Free Report

Three Data Points We’re Watching This Week, Week 33: US Consumers’ Tariff Perceptions

Discover selected data insights from Coresight Research. This week, US consumer reactions to tariffs.

Infographic | August 14, 2025 Premium

Financial Sentiment Hits a Year-to-Date High: Weekly US Consumer Sentiment, Week 33, 2025—Infographic

Our latest weekly US consumer sentiment data summarized in our one-page data graphic.

Deep Dive | August 13, 2025 Databank Members

Sentiment Holds Steady As August Tariffs Deadline Looms: China Consumer Survey Insights

We analyze proprietary survey data to track consumer sentiment and financial sentiments in China. This report shows stable optimism in July 2025, ahead of new August tariffs.