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Do Outlet Malls Really Offer Great Deals? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
Apparently the consumer thinks so. Outlet malls are growing more than four times faster than the total retail market. From July 2012 – June 2013, The NPD Group, Inc. Consumer Tracking Service shows ou...
More Than Just a Price Drop 22 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
Sony made some announcements at this week’s Gamescom that are worth addressing. We now have an exact launch date for Sony’s PlayStation 4. As most of us expected, it is launching November 15, but mor...
Don’t Smile, It Ages You 22 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
The memory is still fresh in my mind. I was in my mid-twenties killing some time at a department store in Manhattan before meeting my boyfriend for dinner. I stopped at a beauty counter and started fi...
A Change is Brewing 22 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Canadians drink coffee on a weekly basis, and on average, it’s two cups a day. And while the amount of coffee being consumed isn’t changing, what is changing is the kind...
As I Was Sayin’ 21 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Several months ago I cited in one of my blog posts our Food Safety Monitor, which continually tracks consumer awareness and concern about food safety issues and future eating intentions, and the numbe...
Say It Isn’t So. The “Murse” Is Back. 20 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
While many of us may have noticed others might have not, recently men have been quietly carrying around what women have been addicted to for decades – a bag for their essential items. Men have been si...
Why Not? 19 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
This year, less than 64 percent of men reported that they use fragrance and only 23 percent report wearing it on an everyday, or nearly every day basis.* That leaves a whole lot of men out there who ...
Really? Pret a Manger and Nando’s? 16 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
I came across this nugget: “Pret A Manger, a U.K. sandwich chain, and Nando’s, a South African chicken-specialist, have both become big in the U.S. in recent years” Now, I suppose it depends on wher...
Ramen Ramen 15 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Japanese food was always kind of a mystery to me before 2002 when I began working to launch CREST® Japan, NPD’s foodservice market research service. Sure, I knew sushi. And I had stumbled on this co...
Did You Watch “Breaking Bad” Sunday? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Most conversations over the past few days have begun with, “Did you watch ‘Breaking Bad’ Sunday?” Between DVR, Netflix, and HBOGO, it’s been quite a while since I’ve viewed a show during its broadcast...
