Anyone immersed in the business world has a grasp on how dynamic the market's behavior is when it comes to consuming goods and services. Every year, business owners across the country are forced to ...

Understanding consumer behavior is elemental to brand and business strategy, and 2023 will be a whopper of a year for those challenged with fathoming the consumer mind. Unlike previous years, 2023 ...

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – For decades, the conventional economic narrative held that rising gasoline prices act as a direct tax on consumers, reducing discretionary spending and slowing ...

In this episode of WWD Voices in Detail, Alexandra Pastore, deputy strategic content editor at WWD, is joined by Sarah Engel, president of January Digital, to discuss the consumer behavior trends ...

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 ...

Consumers are looking to adopt sustainable habits into their day-to-day lives. And in that ever-evolving push towards everyday sustainability, the concept of a circular economy — where materials are ...

Retailers best serve customers when they can identify their needs and proactively meet them. That’s why accurately predicting consumer behavior is so important. It might not always be easy — Walmart’s ...

Here we review three experiments conducted on consumer behavior and discuss how leveraging these studies can boost your startup’s performance. Startups are synonymous with innovation. In this fiercely ...

Consumer centricity is an oft-cited best practice for retail services and marketing, and sustainability outreach is no different. To effectively encourage environmentally conscious consumer behavior, ...

Consumer payment trends such as pushback on interchange fees, the rise of buy now/pay later, crypto payments and agentic commerce are set to shape payments in 2026. The elephant in the room is the ...

As we enter the second half of this decade, consumer behavior continues to shift rapidly. There are many factors at play from rising consumer costs to higher digital engagement to an increased demand ...

Music is widely used to motivate human behaviors and to influence mindset. Background music plays an important role in our everyday lives (eating, drinking, shopping, and driving). It is an important ...