Search party: Walmart kicked things off at the Consumer Electronics Show, unveiling its generative AI search tool that allows shoppers to search by specific use cases, like “football watch party,” instead of searching for each individual item.
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| Feb 27, 2024
These new buyers are flocking to an expanding variety of pickup options from retailers across a host of categories, including grocery, mass merchandisers, consumer electronics, and home improvement. Click-and-collect is outpacing digital buyer growth. The broader digital buyer category—which includes buyers who opt for home delivery—will grow 2.2% YoY this year.
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| Apr 3, 2024
Consumer electronics is another key category. More than a quarter (26%) of consumers in Europe have bought consumer electronics abroad, per DHL—rising to 38% of shoppers in Spain. China’s ecommerce giants continue expanding in Europe. AliExpress is now a major ecommerce player in France, Italy, and Spain.
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| Feb 15, 2024
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 featured a reimagined world of commerce and marketing: The products displayed in Las Vegas last week revealed new ways for marketers to blend the physical and virtual worlds.
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| Jan 13, 2022
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| May 12, 2022
Computer and consumer electronics. Items such as TVs and computers are discretionary, cyclical purchases, which helps explain why demand has been weak after sales soared in 2020 and 2021. The big takeaway: The current winners may see demand slow as spending on travel and entertainment return to more historical norms. But the losers will likely continue to face tough conditions well into 2024.
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| Dec 20, 2023
Before the pandemic, categories like consumer electronics and apparel dominated ecommerce in terms of share. But those categories have reached digital shopping maturity and are now growing more slowly and losing ground. Food and beverage, by contrast, is still in a transformational high-growth era and will continue to steal share from the larger categories. To view the full forecast, click here.
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| Jan 11, 2024
Historically, three categories led the US ecommerce market: apparel and accessories, computer and consumer electronics, and furniture and home furnishings. But in recent years, growth has been fueled by essential goods, including food and beverage items, personal care products, and household supplies. This shift will take grocery to the top of the four major ecommerce categories by 2026.
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| Jan 9, 2024
The losers: Unsurprisingly, the retailers that struggled the most this year largely rely on discretionary spending in categories such as apparel, home furnishings, and consumer electronics. Target faced no shortage of challenges throughout the year.
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| Dec 19, 2023
Historically, apparel and accessories and computer and consumer electronics were the most dominate categories in ecommerce sales. They will remain significant sales drivers, but in the future, ecommerce will be more evenly spread among categories.
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| Mar 14, 2023
On today's episode, we discuss whether we're finally back to pre-pandemic travel levels, the most interesting parts of the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, how best to support LGBT+ causes, if the future of sports is actually streaming, what to make of new state-level data privacy rules, what the best universities in the US are, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Blake Droesch, director of forecasting Oscar Orozco, and vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti.
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| Jan 12, 2023
Amazon will account for 38.2% of all US ecommerce sales this year, per our estimates. In addition to dominating the books, music, and video category, Amazon will capture 50.3% of computer and consumer electronics ecommerce sales and 47.0% of office equipment and supplies ecommerce sales in the US.
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| Dec 15, 2022
Another Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has come and gone, introducing the world to everything from a self-driving stroller to an accessible PlayStation 5 controller.
It would be impossible to give a rundown of everything announced at the Las Vegas event, but here are a few things we think retailers should keep an eye on.
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| Jan 10, 2023
US consumers continue to spend: But they’re increasingly selective about their purchases, which is bad news for retailers selling pricey goods such as consumer electronics.
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| Dec 7, 2022
Are smart TVs the new telehealth frontier? Consumer electronics giants like Samsung are getting in on the shift to home-based healthcare with telehealth integrations.
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| Oct 18, 2022
Computing products and consumer electronics: Includes hardware (computers, computer storage devices, and computer peripheral equipment), consumer electronics, prepackaged software (operating, utility, and applications programs), local area network systems and network systems integration, computer processing, and data preparation and data processing services.
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| Aug 18, 2023
Instacart in grocery, AutoTrader in automotive, Best Buy in consumer electronics, and DoorDash in food delivery each represent a cross-section of industries that have moved heavily online and now present a lucrative audience monetization opportunity. About the Survey.
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| Jan 17, 2024
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Our “Other” category accounts for such a large proportion of spend as it contains industries that are sizable but that we don’t yet break out individually in our forecasts (real estate, computing products and consumer electronics, business, and health and pharma, for example). Spending growth: Aside from travel, retail will be the only category to see significant growth this year.
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| Oct 5, 2023
Apparel and consumer electronics skewed most heavily in favor of ecommerce. Still, around half of shoppers in these categories purchased new items in-store. The big takeaway: Digital has had a massive influence on product discovery, but no single online channel has yet replaced the physical store.
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| Nov 20, 2023
Computer and consumer electronics ranks No. 1. With 29.8% of sales online, this category leads by a significant margin. This is a result of early ecommerce innovation from the likes of Dell and Apple that still persists today. Apparel and accessories has 27.9% penetration, ranking second.
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| Jul 28, 2023
Our “Other” category accounts for such a large proportion of spend because it contains industries that are sizable but that we don’t yet break out individually in our forecasts (real estate, computing products and consumer electronics, business, media and entertainment, and industrial and education, for example). Spending growth: Travel continues to bounce back after a pandemic-induced low.
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| Sep 27, 2023
I will caveat it with I'm not personally sold that the Apple Vision Pro is going to be the next iPad or Apple Watch, but the consumer electronics market has been really sluggish over the last couple of years and really needs a new type of product to jumpstart growth.
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| Feb 28, 2024
The opposite is true for consumer electronics, where nearly half of sales come from ecommerce, and stores are less likely to be a destination for product discovery. But stores are still effective in driving discovery, even in categories where ecommerce accounts for a strong percentage of sales.
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| Nov 7, 2023
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| Aug 10, 2022
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