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.

New Rules for Retail Trading Areas

LJS found that even today, when gas prices are much lower than they were a year ago, 42% of shoppers who drive calculate the cost of gas before setting out for a store or shopping mall.

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From Great Depression to Digital Recession

From Great Depression to Digital Recession: Much of the discussion about the current recession focuses on the short-term: when will it end. For marketers and business strategists with a time horizon beyond the next few quarters, the more pressing issues are...

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Destiniation Families -- An Island of Optimism During the Great Recession

During the average recession month one in four households (28%) planned destination travel (air travel and stay at a hotel). Households with children account for 40% of those who are planning destination travel.

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Christmas 2008: 69 Days

Current buying plans, if carried out by consumers, will make this one of the most difficult retail Christmas seasons in many years. Coming into early October, two-thirds of households (67%) expect to spend less for Christmas this year and just 9% more.

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Auto Insurers Prosper with High Gas Prices

Americans who are doing less driving have steadily increased over the past 12 months as the price of gas escalated. In early August, 90% of motorists said that they were cutting back on their driving.

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