The retail giant's latest earnings report shows a worrisome change.

Join us on May 12th at 3pm ET for the latest installment of our Retail in Real Time webinar series as we decode the impact of ...

Today, the purchase is often secondary to the experience. Consumers participate in a narrative, share moments with others and ...

Inflation creeps into every corner of your life, from the prices at the grocery store to the balance in your savings account. It’s a reality that can make you anxious about your financial future.

McDonald’s second quarter included positive same-store sales, to the tune of +2.5%. It was a welcomed report after back-to-back negative quarters, which just doesn’t happen all too often at the Golden ...

While the psychology of consumer behavior would veer off into a number of different directions in the 1950s, its core remained psychoanalytic theory brought over from Europe in the 1930s. Nothing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m a founder, writer and lecturer focusing on VC funds. Despite ongoing economic challenges, the consumer economy has shown ...

As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes the way companies set prices, Joseph Lagana and Joseph Cryan in the Senate and Chigozie Onyema and William ...

In my first article in this series, I laid out an approach for identifying the modes that people get into, and I introduced the idea of a mode map. For part two, I’d like to apply mode map thinking to ...

Discover the types of consumer goods, including durable, nondurable, and services, along with examples like clothing and food, enhancing your understanding of retail products.