by Nick Mangiapane | Oct 5, 2020 | Article, Data
Commerce Signals Consumer Spending Data Used in Analysis by Federal Reserve Bank of New York The following excerpt is from a recently published article from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Their comprehensive analysis is refreshingly apolitical. Here’s a...
by Nick Mangiapane | Sep 17, 2020 | Article, Data
With total consumer card spending down 2% from Memorial Day to Labor Day, most companies needed to take share from competitors to even partially offset category spending declines. That’s a tall order when faced with all of the operational and personal challenges...
by Nick Mangiapane | Jul 31, 2020 | Article, Data
Consumer Spending Overall and By State Consumer card spending nationally was still 3.1% behind 2019 over the most recent four weeks of available data (6/21/20 – 7/18/20), but the results vary widely by state. Where COVID-19 cases have surged, sales remain further...
by Nick Mangiapane | Apr 20, 2020 | Article, Data, News
Total U.S. consumer spending was down 11% in March due to the impact of COVID-19, but some consumer categories felt the impact far more than others. Airline purchases, for example, were down 67% in March. Others, like grocery, drug and mass discount retailers, climbed...
by Nick Mangiapane | May 20, 2019 | Data
While today’s sophisticated quick service restaurant (QSR) marketers display exceptional creativity, the most successful are also leveraging data and technology in ingenious ways to conquer the last “marketing gap” and close the loop. Which marketing gap?...
by Gary Solomon | May 16, 2019 | Article, Data
Retailers cannot compete with the size of Google, Facebook or Amazon’s first party databases. And that’s ok. Retailers can still generate tremendous value and growth with their CRM and CDP files through smart connections to other trusted partners. The value of data is...