The Power of a Back-to-College Connection
Excitement and happiness are present for many of today’s back-to-college shoppers, but they also report feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed, especially as moving day gets closer. Combined ...
A Long-Term Proposition
The general thinking around healthy-living has evolved. Instead of “going on a diet,” which is a short-term behavior, more people seem to be thinking of their diet in the broader sense and are foc...
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Will a Holiday Hero be a 2017 Trailblazer?
When many key general merchandise categories struggled to meet holiday sales of the previous year, let alone beat them, home products categories proved to be a key component of retail sales succes...
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Holiday Performance Extended Year of Growth in Small Appliance Market
2016 was a great year in the Kitchen Electrics market, ending the year up +6% in dollars, with dollar growth in all but four of the Kitchen Electrics categories NPD measures. A large factor in the...
Market to the Moment, Not Just to Millennials
I often get asked, should I focus on Millennials or should I focus on Baby Boomers? My response is, “Why not both?” They are more alike than most people think. Yes, there are differences but the ...
Grabbing Your Fair Share of the Back-to-College Pie
With the back-to-college spend estimated to reach $6.6 billion this year, competition among retailers is already heating up like nothing I recall in recent memory. In order to capture their fair share...
Being Green vs. Thinking Green
With the back-to-college spend estimated to reach $6.6 billion this year, competition among retailers is already heating up like nothing I recall in recent memory. In order to capture their fair share...
The Changing Tides of Coffee
It is an interesting time in the coffee maker market. The total coffee machine market declined in Canada by -15% in dollars YoY in 2014, largely driven by single serve coffee machines, which declined ...
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