John Harmon, CFA, Managing Director of Technology Research

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Insight Report | June 17, 2025 Premium

Amazon Prime Day 2025: Preview—Five Essential Insights on Consumers’ Shopping Plans

Amazon’s annual Prime Day shopping festival will be held during July 8–11, 2025, across 20 global markets, including the US. Leveraging proprietary US consumer survey findings, we present five essential insights ahead of the event, including how consumer interest in Prime Day compares with actual conversion, which product categories are set to dominate, and what brands can do to drive sales.

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| May 21, 2025 Free Report

Five Ways Brands and Retailers Can Use AI/ML and Shared Data to Energize End-to-End Product Management

Product management plays a crucial role in driving revenues, margins, efficiency and customer satisfaction. Technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning) and GenAI (generative AI) offer powerful capabilities for retail companies to enhance key functions through the product lifecycle, from product development to customer interaction. This research report is produced and made available to non-subscribers in partnership with Centric Software.

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Event Presentation | April 1, 2025 Premium

Shoptalk Spring 2025—Our Takeaways: Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call, April 2025

Fresh from Shoptalk Spring 2025, we reflect on key themes from the event, covered in panel discussions with retail leaders and our conversations with technology innovators. From unified commerce to retail media, don’t miss our top takeaways! This presentation accompanies the on-demand webinar of the Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call in April 2025.

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Insight Report | December 23, 2024 Premium

Party City and Big Lots To Close All Stores: What’s the $100 Billion Elephant in the Room?

Two major US retailers, Big Lots and Party City, are closing. Big Lots stated that it will conduct an out-of-business sale following the failure of a deal to sell the company, while Party City plans to close all its stores. We argue that these closures are indicative of an underrecognized pressure on retailers, which we identify as totaling about $100 billion in scale.

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Deep Dive | December 3, 2024 Premium

Black Friday 2024: Insights from US Store Visits—Which Retailers Could Have Done Better?

Last week, the Coresight Research team undertook our annual Black Friday store visits, visiting the stores of more than 40 retailers across six states. We offer our observations on the brick-and-mortar channel during Black Friday 2024, covering the breadth and depth of promotions, product quantity and availability, and consumer activity and demand, among other topics.

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