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Halloween Comes Earlier Every Year. Are Consumers Actually Ready For Marketers’ Tricks and Treats?
Purchase data indicates ‘yes,’ but the advertisers paying attention know the real problem isn’t timing. It’s sameness.
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Halloween Comes Earlier Every Year. Are Consumers Actually Ready For Marketers’ Tricks and Treats?
Consumer
The Great Lettuce Crash: How a Food Scare Rewrote the Grocery Basket Overnight
Attain’s purchase data shows consumers didn’t buy less lettuce after the cyclospora outbreak — they stopped buying it altogether. What comes next depends on whether brands can do something they’ve rarely managed in a food safety crisis: earn trust back.
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The Great Lettuce Crash: How a Food Scare Rewrote the Grocery Basket Overnight
Consumer
When Does Back-to-School Shopping Start? (Hint: Earlier and Earlier)
Attain data pinpoints the week of July 7 as the season’s takeoff — but marketers tracking families say the real planning begins even before that.
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When Does Back-to-School Shopping Start? (Hint: Earlier and Earlier)
Consumer
The State of Apparel: Is Anyone Actually Loyal to a Single Brand Anymore?
From Shein to Uniqlo to J.Crew, consumers are shopping across the entire spectrum of fashion retail — and the brands that don’t understand that are the ones losing ground.
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The State of Apparel: Is Anyone Actually Loyal to a Single Brand Anymore?
Consumer
Consumers Say They’re Pulling Back, But Purchase Data Shows Otherwise
According to Attain’s Q1 Reality Check report, economic uncertainty has decreased consumer confidence, but it’s yet to change their spending behaviors.
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Consumers Say They’re Pulling Back, But Purchase Data Shows Otherwise
Consumer
Are Millennial Brands Dead?
Everlane’s sale to Shein, Allbirds’ pivot to AI, and Casper’s fire sale lead us to ask what replaced them.
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Are Millennial Brands Dead?
Consumer
Unsurprisingly, Prices For BBQ Goods Are High Heading into Memorial Day
Consumers’ frustrations with inflation will extend into the holiday weekend as prices for most barbecue products have risen YoY.
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Unsurprisingly, Prices For BBQ Goods Are High Heading into Memorial Day

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