Posts Tagged ‘ Appliances & Electronics ’
This week at the CES show in Vegas, tablet computers are all the rage with a number of new product announcements. With predictions from Forrester Research that 2011 will be ‘The Year of the Tablet’, we analyzed consumer demand for the marketplace in terms of branded tablet searches. Based upon a portfolio of the names [...][ READ MORE ]
Despite fears after two previous lackluster seasons, initial holiday shopping reports are positive and consumers were back to spending again in 2010. One indicator of consumers’ intent to buy was increased traffic to the Retail 500 throughout the holiday season. Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong start, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in [...][ READ MORE ]
According to the NRF’s 2010 Back to College Consumer Intentions and Actions survey, the average college student’s family will spend $616.13 on new apparel, furniture for dorms or apartments, school supplies and electronics, down slightly from $618.12 last year. Electronics represent the largest share of spending with the average family predicted to spend $236.94 on [...][ READ MORE ]
Recently we wrote about the increase in searches for air conditioners during the heat wave affecting many parts of the country, causing the share of search clicks on the term ‘air conditioners’ to increase 268% for the week ending July 10, 2010. Upon publishing these trends, eBay confirmed that they were also seeing increases in [...][ READ MORE ]
The recent heat wave in the US has sent many in search of air conditioners to keep cool last week with temperatures reaching over 100 degrees in parts of the country. The share of search clicks on the term ‘air conditioners’ increased 268% for the week ending July 10, 2010 over the previous week and [...][ READ MORE ]
