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‘Retail Rebooted’
Retail is undergoing a major shift, with brick-and-mortar stores forced to evolve for a digital-commerce age; multiple new ways to buy; the rise of data-based personalization; fast-changing consumer...
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Data point: Millennials lead the way toward unconventional retail platforms
Our new trend report, “Retail Rebooted,” outlines how retailers are evolving for an increasingly sophisticated digital and data-centric world. It includes an update of one of our 10 Trends for 2013,...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Micropopularity, biometrics and vaping
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/J6FjO -The New York Times explores the emergence of...
View Article‘Everything Is Retail,’ from magazines to Hangouts
Shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that plays out in multiple novel ways: This is one of our trends for 2013, dubbed Everything Is...
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Uniqlo, H&M and Retail As the Third Space
“Retail As the Third Space,” one of our 10 Trends for 2011, is rapidly accelerating: As digital commerce becomes habit for consumers, brick-and-mortar is increasingly focused around experiences,...
View ArticleVogue’s shoppable Instagram
As we outline in Everything Is Retail, one of our 10 Trends for 2013 and Beyond, shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that can play...
View ArticleIntroducing The Future 100
As we race to the finish line of 2014, we’re also starting to look to what’s next. At JWTIntelligence, our 10 Trends and later 100 Things to Watch have traditionally marked this transition. This year,...
View Article10 Years of 10 Trends
Ten years ago, J. Walter Thompson made the pioneering move to set up what we now call JWTIntelligence, with the purpose of identifying global consumer trends and interpreting what they mean for...
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Data Point: Developing markets more open to alternative shopping
Consumers in developing markets are clamoring for new ways to pay, according to research from our 10 Years of 10 Trends report. These consumers were twice as likely as those in developed markets to...
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New innovation hub: Your local mall
This spring, mall behemoth Westfield is debuting a first-of-its kind concept that combines retail, tech and innovation. Bespoke is a 40,000-foot space located in San Francisco’s buzzing Westfield...
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