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NRF’s Consumer View

NRF’s Consumer View series looks at what shapes retail, including how and why consumers make purchasing decisions and how retailers can adapt to changing consumer tastes.

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Generation Z

All of NRF's research on the emerging generation of consumers — those born in 1995 and later.

Millennials

Millennials — those born between 1981 and 1994 — shop differently than other generations of consumers.

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Customer Experience

J.Lo collaborates with DSW

Fashionistas can begin putting their fiercest foot forward this spring.

Zeynep Ton, MIT Sloan School of Management with Ellen Davis

Customer Experience

Ensuring retail jobs are good jobs

Retail Gets Real episode 161: Author Zeynep Ton on how to follow the playbook of some of the best retail companies.

Customer Experience

2020 beauty trends

What's hot and not, according to 235 million Instagram posts.

Photo of Sephora store interactive display

Customer Experience

How Sephora evolves the in-store experience

Retail Gets Real episode 160: Alison Hahn, Sephora’s SVP of Merchandising for Color and Fragrance, talks disruption.

Customer Experience

Rosedale Center brings pro wrestling to Saturday night at the mall

The Minnesota mall is finding new ways to connect with its community.

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Nearly 148 million Americans plan to shop Super Saturday

November retail sales kick off holiday season with 2.1 percent growth over last year and more shopping to come

Half of holiday shoppers have already started

Holiday shoppers plan to spend 4 percent more this year

NRF forecasts holiday sales will grow between 3.8 and 4.2 percent

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