Today, the purchase is often secondary to the experience. Consumers participate in a narrative, share moments with others and reinforce personal connections with brands.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Diane Adam talks to Matt Hautau, vice president of merchandising of Core-Mark, a wholesale distributor to the convenience ...

Inflation creeps into every corner of your life, from the prices at the grocery store to the balance in your savings account. It’s a reality that can make you anxious about your financial future.

In the 2010s, movements such as body positivity, health and wellness, and size inclusivity gained momentum, causing demand for diet programs and weight loss products to stagnate. In 2018, Weight ...

Retailers are using daily transaction insights to understand subtle (yet important) nuances of how consumer spending shifts ...

While the psychology of consumer behavior would veer off into a number of different directions in the 1950s, its core remained psychoanalytic theory brought over from Europe in the 1930s. Nothing ...

Rising fuel-price pressure is reshaping everyday spending, but consumers remain active, value-focused, and selectively ...

In my first article in this series, I laid out an approach for identifying the modes that people get into, and I introduced the idea of a mode map. For part two, I’d like to apply mode map thinking to ...

McDonald’s second quarter included positive same-store sales, to the tune of +2.5%. It was a welcomed report after back-to-back negative quarters, which just doesn’t happen all too often at the Golden ...

Over the past several years, there have been exponential, wide-ranging changes across the internet. As new technological tools such as AI, cryptocurrency, and beyond continue to expand, how general ...

Brendan Dwyer, Ph.D., has spent his career studying sports consumer behavior, and with the recent legalization of sports ...

iMGP Global Partner, an investment management company, released its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter for the “iMGP Small Company Fund”. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund ...