Jitender Miglani

To understand the current financial health of US consumers, we analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Personal Income and Its Disposition.

Forrester’s Global Retail E-Commerce Forecast, 2024 To 2028 report provides a five-year forecast of online and offline retail sales for 40 countries.

Looking ahead into 2024, Forrester expects headline inflation to decrease from an average of 4.1% in 2023 to 2.6% in 2024.

Take a look at the top 10 US retailers in 2022 based on total retail sales and e-commerce sales.

We recap a few European retail sales trends over the last few years and in 2023.

Read this blog for analysis and the top 10 key takeaways from Apple’s FY 2023 sales and profits reporting.

Forrester forecasts that total end-of-year holiday retail sales in the US will reach $969 billion, a 4.3% year-over-year increase. Read more.

In this blog, we analyze the recent trends in US retail and e-commerce sales and share our key takeaways that brands should know for the rest of 2023.

Using data from Forrester's US Online Retail Forecast, here are the top 5 challenges US retailers face due to rising interest rates.

Our newly published research, US Online Retail Forecast, 2023 To 2028, shows that both offline and online US sales will reach record levels this year. As we’ve said many times, the store is flourishing and far from “dead!”

We highlight key retail trends by studying the retail industry’s sales, operating income, and net income.

We analyzed US consumer spending using the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) data provided by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Check out these 10 insights pulled from our look at PCE data from 2022 regarding US consumer spending on a number of categories.

We draw the 10 important learnings from Walmart’s 2023 fiscal-year results.

The Europe-5 markets comprise the top five economies in Europe — in order of size, those are Germany, the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. In 2022, total retail sales for the Europe-5 countries continued to grow strongly, but this growth actually shifted from online channels and touchpoints to offline channels and touchpoints. You read that […]

As we entered 2023, we asked ourselves, what is the dollar impact of inflation? Specifically, how much more did US consumers spend due to increased prices in 2022? Read on for our analysis.

Last year, Amazon’s total net sales surpassed the half-trillion-dollar mark. To understand the drivers behind Amazon’s sales and profits performance, we analyzed the company’s sales and profits by product groups, countries, and business segments. Following are the top 10 insights from our analysis.

In June 2022, the headline inflation in the US reached a 40-year high of 9.1%, spurring multitudes of news articles about the US economy and its impact on the US consumer wallet. The headline inflation number is important, but keep in mind that inflation varies (sometimes significantly) by category.

Inflation — not volume — will drive US holiday retail sales this year. Learn more about what's in store for the 2022 holiday season.

Forrester forecasts US digital-influenced retail sales to grow from $2.7 trillion in 2022 to $3.8 trillion in 2027.