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Holiday 2020: US Retail Outlook—Five Reasons Why We’re Looking for 5% Growth

We provide our first estimates for the US retail outlook for holiday 2020, covering expected total retail sales growth and demand by category and sector. We discuss five factors supporting our estimates—including food retail demand, a switch from services to products, and earlier holiday shopping in October. We also consider three wildcards that could have hard-to-predict impacts on holiday spending, including the November election outcome and store capacity issues.

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Holiday 2020: US Shopper Survey—How Shifting Spending Patterns Will Impact Retail

Coresight Research’s recent survey provides a detailed update on US consumers’ holiday 2020 shopping expectations, with a focus on the implications for US retail. Given the uncertain context to US consumer’s holiday shopping decisions, the shape and scale of consumer demand during the holiday peak is less certain than ever. We take a deep dive into shoppers’ expectations for the US holiday 2020 season with results and insights from our survey.

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The 12 Weeks of Holidays: #2—The Global Shopping Festival of 10.10 Festivalizes Holiday 2020

We discuss the “festivalization” of holiday retail, with a focus on the new 10.10 Shopping Festival and Amazon’s Prime Day. We discuss the implications for US retailers, including the expected early start to the holiday shopping season. This free report is part of our 12 Weeks of Holidays series, in which we present key data, trends and observations as we count down to the peak holiday season.

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