Andrew Adam Newman

Senior Reporter, Retail Brew

Andrew is a senior reporter for Retail Brew. He’s been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and had stints as senior editor for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen and as editor in chief of alternative newsweeklies in Pittsburgh and Boise.

A woman holding gift-wrapped presents and wearing a Santa hat looks distressed with one hand on her forehead.
Consumer Behavior & Trends

Nearly 30% of consumers plan to do most holiday shopping in December

That’s up from 19% last year, per Bank of America.

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Young woman trying on a wristwatch in jewelry store.
Consumer Behavior & Trends

Nearly 6 in 10 plan to shop for themselves this holiday season

Self-gifters will spend an average of $354, up 18% over last year, per KPMG.

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Consumer Behavior & Trends

Nearly half of GLP-1 users switching to new clothing brands

It’s a “customer acquisition” opportunity for apparel brands, reports EY-Parthenon.

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An example of the Consumer Reports badge that eligible brands will be able to license from the magazine: #1 brand in dishwashers.
Marketing

Why Consumer Reports hopes brands will pay to boast about reliability

Appliance brands can now license CR’s reliability badge to help win over shoppers.

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Young woman shopping in a vintage clothing store.
Consumer Behavior & Trends

More than 6 in 10 plan to buy secondhand for the holidays

Gen Z and millennials even more likely, per ThredUp.

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An assortment of GoodCook kitchen untensils.
Marketing

Why GoodCook is ‘a sleeping giant that’s waking up’ with its rebrand

It’s rolling out 160 products with a new logo and packaging.

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A kitten watches as PrettyLitter is poured into a bowl.
E-Commerce

How PrettyLitter is taking its DTC health-monitoring cat litter into stores

PrettyLitter just added 1,300 Publix stores to its growing footprint.

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A woman with a Santa hat sits in her living room with a Christmas tree in the background, holding her smartphone in one hand and making a “stop” gesture with the other.
Marketing

1 in 4 report brands’ holiday emails as spam

Onslaught of email promos prompts even more to unsubscribe and delete, per Validity.

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A holiday shopper holds a Louis Vuitton bag.
Consumer Behavior & Trends

Gen Z hot to purchase luxury brands as gifts for the holidays

The share planning luxury gifts rose to 72% from 57% last year, per Deloitte.

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Outraged woman client in pharmacy.
Stores

Nearly half of retail workers experienced customer abuse in the past year

And 23% have avoided shifts because of safety concerns, according to a Halos survey.

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