edit

  1. Data & Insights

The Record: Q1 U.S. audio listening trends

Daily audio consumption in the first quarter of 2025 amounted to 3 hours and 45 minutes of daily1 listening across both ad supported and ad free platforms like radio, podcasts, streaming music services and satellite radio.  The Record is our quarterly report card on how U.S. consumers spend their listening day, fueled by data from […]
3 min read
0
  1. Acquisitions, Divestitures & Mergers

Etsy’s Latest Turnaround Efforts: Selloff of Reverb, Seller Experience Improvements

Etsy continues to make refinements to its business model as it seeks a return to growth amid increasing competition. The company’s latest moves include selling off Reverb, a resale marketplace for musical instruments that it acquired in 2019, and a host of updates to its seller experience.  Etsy Offloads Reverb to Focus on its Core […]
3 min read
0
  1. Technology & Innovation

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Our AI Will Differentiate Via Personality

Microsoft announced a slew of product upgrades to its Copilot AI bot on Friday, including longer memory and deeper personalization features intended to make the bot feel more like a companion and less like a Wikipedia-retrieval machine. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, believes this is the primary way AI companies will differentiate their products. It […]
14 min read
0
  1. Data & Insights

4 Top Retail Media Trends Driving the Industry Forward in 2025

The digital landscape continues to develop at a breakneck pace, with several retail media trends reshaping how brands connect with consumers across both digital and physical touchpoints. At Harvest Group, we’ve been keeping our finger on the pulse of these changes through our extensive work with brand partners across the industry. Our team recently completed […]
2 min read
0
  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Starboard Launches First Land-Based Shops at Las Vegas Resort

Starboard Group’s new land-based vacation retail division, Starboard Resort, has opened its first group of stores, The Boutiques at Westgate Las Vegas, in partnership with Westgate Resorts. Three new shops will feature curated luxury items such as fine jewelry, on-trend fashion and special occasion apparel, as well as Starboard’s exclusive fashion jewelry brand. “We know […]
2 min read
0
  1. Owned Brands (Private Label)

Private Label Today and Tomorrow: A 2024 Market Analysis

The private label landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation across retail channels. With all the news around private label performance, various new brand launches last year, and recent tariff concerns, and the buzz at PLMA in Chicago, the Harvest Group team decided to pause and reflect on how businesses at Walmart, Target, and Amazon […]
3 min read
0
  1. Retail Ecosystem

Live from New York: Saks Features Pop-Up Shop, Limited-Edition Merch for Saturday Night Live’s 50th

Saks Fifth Avenue is planning a range of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its “neighbor” Saturday Night Live (the show is filmed across the street from Saks’ 5th Avenue flagship at 30 Rockefeller Plaza). In honor of the show’s milestone birthday, Saks has rolled out an exclusive line of SNL merch via a […]
2 min read
0
  1. Technology & Innovation

“Sometimes I Forget I’m Paralyzed.” How Neuralink’s First Patient Found Freedom by Connecting His Brain to a Computer.

Noland Arbaugh and his mother Mia The desert daylight was fading when Noland Arbaugh DM’d me to drive over to his Yuma, Arizona home. The 30-year-old quadriplegic cannot operate a phone by hand, can’t type on a laptop, and wasn’t able to fully operate a computer a year ago. But using just the thoughts in […]
7 min read
0
  1. Shopper & Customer

How the circular economy is transforming fashion: Sustainable trends & insights

As fashion designer Stella McCartney once said: “The future of fashion is circular: it’s about making clothes last longer and creating value beyond the first wear.”  In recent years, this vision has become more than an ideal; it’s transforming the fashion industry as we know it. Unlike fast fashion, which prioritizes quick production and disposal, […]
5 min read
0
  1. Shopper & Customer

Rent the Runway CEO on the Evolution of Consumers and Her Company

When Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss started Rent the Runway, they wanted to disrupt the fashion industry. Now, as the company’s 15th birthday nears, Hyman has unveiled her plans to “reinvigorate” the business heading into 2025 and beyond. But that means first reflecting on how much the company has changed, how much she has changed […]
4 min read
0
  1. Media & Marketing

David’s Bridal Expands Loyalty Program Rewards to the Full Wedding Party

The David’s Bridal Diamond Loyalty program already boasts nearly 3 million members, and now the retailer is broadening its appeal to the entire wedding party — even the flower girl. Wedding party members now can access two new reward tiers with lower threshold levels to earn perks when reaching 1,000 and 2,999 points. Members earn […]
2 min read
0

Trending Topics

Editor’s Choice

  1. Trends & External Forces
  2. Media & Marketing
  3. Data & Insights
  4. Technology & Innovation
  5. Trends & External Forces

Charted: How Do U.S. Universities Make Their Money?

See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Charted: How Are American Universities Funded? This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways More than half of American public college and […]
Written by
  1. Channel: Delivery
  2. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
  3. Corporate Strategy
  4. Media & Marketing
  5. Data & Insights
  6. Technology & Innovation

Week in Review: Instacart CEO heads to OpenAI

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you this week: There were CEO shake-ups at Instacart and 11x; the web series is back — kind of; Threads is getting video ads; and much more. Let’s get to it! Big move: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will become OpenAI’s CEO for Applications, […]
Written by
  1. Technology & Innovation
  2. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
  3. Channel: Mass
  4. Acquisitions, Divestitures & Mergers
  5. Corporate Strategy
  6. Corporate Finance
  7. Corporate Purpose
  8. Media & Marketing
  9. Data & Insights
  10. International
  11. Technology & Innovation
  12. Trends & External Forces
  13. Retail Operations
  14. Associates & Employees
  15. Operations & Supply Chain
  16. Stores & Formats

What’s next for Instacart as CEO Fidji Simo announces decision to join OpenAI as head of applications?

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is departing the grocery technology company to join OpenAI as its Chief of Applications. In an email to employees, she said: “Let me start by saying this was an incredibly hard decision because I love this company. We are operating incredibly well as our last earnings results have shown. Our strategy […]
Written by
  1. Technology & Innovation
  2. Channel: Dollar/Value
  3. Channel: Grocery
  4. Channel: Mass
  5. Department & Category
  6. Department: Nonfood
  7. Corporate Strategy
  8. Media & Marketing
  9. Data & Insights
  10. Shopper & Customer
  11. Technology & Innovation
  12. Trends & External Forces
  13. Retail Operations
  14. Merchandising
  15. Operations & Supply Chain
  16. Stores & Formats

Personalized Disruption: Grocery’s Secret to Breaking Old Habits

There’s no shortage of talk about technology that’s going to redefine, dominate, or transform retail this year. Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. There is no shortage of tech hyperbole in retail. But then there’s the occasional exception — a technology that genuinely does […]
Written by
  1. Shopper & Customer
  2. Department: Nonfood
  3. Media & Marketing
  4. Data & Insights
  5. Shopper & Customer
  6. Technology & Innovation
  7. Trends & External Forces
  8. Holiday & Events
  9. Operations & Supply Chain

State of the Consumer Report

[Week of May 9] Timely insights on consumer behavior, pricing, and retail trends This weekly snapshot highlights the most relevant signals shaping where and how consumers are spending—from e-commerce and inflation shifts to essential vs. discretionary demand. What you’ll get from this week’s report: Cross-border e-commerce slowdown: Learn how tariff pressures are reshaping sales trends […]
Written by

Trending