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Two of the six fastest-growing private label brands by unit sales in 2024 were Dollar Tree鈥檚 B Pure beauty brand (+86%) and Dollar General鈥檚 Gentle Steps baby care line (+57%), per Numerator data.

Motor vehicle and parts dealer sales; furniture sales; electronics and appliance sales; building material and garden equipment sales; food and beverage sales; health and personal care sales; gasoline sales; clothing and clothing accessories sales; sporting goods, hobby, book, and physical music sales; general merchandise sales; miscellaneous sales; nonstore sales (e.g., pure-play ecommerce platform sales

Wellness is becoming more digital, personalized, and consumer driven, with technology playing a central role in health management, fitness, and self-care.

Essential goods categories will run out of steam, leading to a slowdown in ecommerce growth.

Credit unions have historically championed white-glove service through personalized customer care, a key differentiator. However, the term's vagueness risks inconsistency and superficiality, potentially neglecting internal staff experience and ultimately harming customer service. To truly excel, financial institutions (FIs) must embed human-centric care into their core culture, beyond just outward presentation. This involves training employees in empathy, rewarding complex problem-solving skills, and redesigning products around customer milestones rather than sales. Ultimately, genuine differentiation for FIs lies in authentic financial partnership and a deep understanding of unique customer needs, which larger, less personal entities cannot easily replicate.

The moves: Est茅e Lauder is far from the only beauty company to sense opportunity in India鈥檚 $28 billion beauty and personal care market. Over two dozen major global brands, including Fenty, Nars Cosmetics, and Rare Beauty, have launched in the country over the past two years, all vying to attract spending from India鈥檚 growing middle-class and affluent consumers.

Food and beverage will top overall holiday retail sales growth for the third consecutive year (+10.0%), followed by health and personal care (+6.6%) and apparel, footwear, and accessories (+6.6%). Just about every other top-line category in our forecast will see below-average holiday sales growth. The one exception is computer and consumer electronics (+6.1%).

CPG: Includes food products, household products, packaged goods, tobacco, personal care products, toiletries, and cosmetics products. (A large portion of these products are categorized in Germany as fast-moving consumer goods [FMCG].).

CPG: Includes food products, household products, packaged goods, tobacco, personal care products, toiletries, and cosmetics products. (A large portion of these products are categorized in France as fast-moving consumer goods [FMCG].).

How can retailers in grocery, the second-largest ecommerce category, optimize their online business to succeed?

CPG stands for 鈥渃onsumer packaged goods鈥� and includes food and beverage products, household products, packaged goods, tobacco, personal care products, toiletries, and cosmetic products. Food includes food subscription boxes, candy and chocolate, chips, ice cream, pasta, seasoning, baking ingredients, salad dressing, meat/seafood/poultry, bread, frozen food and meals, and health foods.

High-income consumers are more likely to discover new brands or products in-store, but they typically make the final purchase online.

Fashion categories and health and personal care are outperforming in digital commerce. These are the only two topline categories that will see above-average online sales growth in each year of our forecast through 2028. The recent rapid growth in food and beverage ecommerce is slowing just as quickly, as inflation eases and some prices even come down.

CPG: Includes food products, household products, packaged goods, tobacco, personal care products, toiletries, and cosmetics products. (A large portion of these products are categorized in the UK as fast-moving consumer goods [FMCG].).

That鈥檚 reflected in category growth鈥攚ith food/beverage and health/personal care/beauty being the fastest-growing online categories in both countries in 2024. Retail sales growth is slowing despite an improved economic outlook. Retail sales are up, but growth is slowing. Total retail sales will increase 3.7% in 2024 to hit $5.221 trillion, per our latest forecast.

Higher shares of men than women bought goods in every product category except for clothing, beauty, and health and personal care. The discrepancies were most apparent in consumer electronics and financial products: More than double the number of men than women purchased products in each category.

CPG includes food and beverage products, household products, packaged goods, tobacco, personal care products, toiletries, and cosmetic products.