Overall, the online art market seems to be in line with several retail trends: consumers spending on experiences, retailers targeting millennials and millennials embracing social media.
How does the platform fit in with current retail trends?
And so to perplexing retail trends on the official London 2012 website.
Forecasters will track retail trends and offer grave assessments of the season's prospects.
They both have to be fleet-footed to stay on top of — and drive — retail trends.
That is little comfort to merchants who suffer from changing retail trends.
But Kurt Barnard, who owns a forecasting firm for retail trends, said Crate & Barrel "should pay royalties to Old Navy".
"They are under tremendous pressure," said Walter K. Levy, managing director for retail trends at Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting group.
"The average person goes shopping for 22 minutes," said Phil Lempert, who edits Supermarketguru.com, a Web site that tracks retail trends.
At Newell Rubbermaid we look at broader G.N.P. measures, we look for overall retail trends, comparable store sales -- things that indicate overall retail activity.
"This is a rare opportunity in any consumer's lifetime," said Marshal Cohen, the chief analyst for NPD Group, which tracks retail trends.
