Jitender Miglani

Economists expect inflation to rise again as the cost of imported goods increases and retailers pass these costs on to consumers. Here, we look at the current US GDP outlook for 2025 according to key growth indicators.

Forrester’s Jitender Miglani summarizes key takeaways from the latest Europe-5 retail forecast.

What can retailers and brands expect this holiday season? Find out in this preview of our newly released holiday season forecast.

This blog post discusses the revenue and profit trends of Amazon and Walmart and their growing dominance in US retail.

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.