Category: Trends

Baby Boomers Continue to Dominate Spending

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the U.S. home improvement industry has performed much better than the broader housing market, according to this new report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. And although…

Why are so many major retailers closing locations in 2015?

Office Depot, Radio Shack, and Barnes & Noble are a few of the largest U.S. retail chains that have announced store closings and downsizing plans for 2015. In fact, even before the end of 2014, U.S. retail industry companies had already announced…

3 trends changing the way we shop for groceries

In the hectic, rapidly evolving world of retail, it can be hard to keep up with what’s happening at the moment – let alone what’s coming next. As our Charlotte branding agency looks ahead to 2015…
our charlotte marketing agency loves catalogs

Start the presses: shoppers still love looking at catalogs

According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the number of catalogs mailed in 2013 increased slightly to 11.9 billion, after years of steady decline (2014 numbers are not yet available). While that figure is about 60% of…