Insights Blog

Dollar stores have been one of the fastest-growing retail channels since the pandemic began. Dollar General and Dollar Tree are expanding new store concepts, and shares of both...

As we near the year's end, we are truly ready for 2020 to be over and hopeful that 2021 holds better news. With that in mind, let's look at our latest insights from last week to...

Our recent national survey of 810 consumers found that half of respondents shopped the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend.

The restaurant third-party delivery market has skyrocketed since the pandemic started.

In the last few weeks, new players have entered the chicken sandwich wars:   Zaxby’s announced its new Signature Chicken Sandwich, Church’s Chicken released the Church’s Chicken...

The holiday season will look very different this year. Here are survey results on how shoppers are planning their travel, meals, shopping, and gift giving for Thanksgiving and the...

Prime Day 2020 was a success for Amazon, even on top of the huge growth they saw since the beginning of the pandemic.   They achieved an high degree of awareness among shoppers,...

During the early months of the pandemic, Supermarkets were up as much as 5-10% in market share year over year. But recently, they've softened and are now flat year over year,...

In today's Insights Briefing webinar, we analyzed the performance of Cafe/Bakery restaurants using all three of our primary data sets: foot traffic, transactions, and our Daily...

As COVID-19 case counts ease up in parts of the country, the Midwest has been outpacing other regions when it comes to retail shopping and restaurant dining activity. In today's...