LJS regularly sponsors and conducts studies on topics of interest to us and to our clients. You can read some of our most recent work below, or choose from the list of topics to the right. If there’s a topic of interest to you or your business, please submit a question.
Spending Eases as Inflation Fears Deminsh | August 2008
Consumers continue to maintain a tight grip on day-to-day purchases but return to the market for major purchases as they regain hope that runaway inflation will be checked. | |
Service to a Travel Averse Public | August 2008
As it becomes more costly to get anywhere, retailers and others that serve the public are challenged to become nicer. Trips to stores and providers of service demand more welcome to gas-thrifty consumers. | |
The Restructuring of Real Estate | July 2008
Real estate values are a consequence of where Americans decide to live, where they go to work, and where they shop. As Americans are rethinking how they live in the face of the costs of energy, real estate values are shifting in each of these areas. | |
Lost in Translation | July 2008
Anyone who has ever traveled internationally or has even placed an overseas telephone call knows the potential pitfalls that come with communicating in a language other than one’s own. When vacationing abroad, accidental miscues can result in erendipitous adventures and good stories to tell back home. | |
Retail Mutation | July 2008
For a long time, elders have advised youngsters to go into retailing because they believed that there would always be stores. For more than two centuries, they have been right. And today, that advice still remains sound. | |
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