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.
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. | |
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. | |
Wal-Mart, Hardly Up Against A Wall | July 2008
Besides home and work, Wal-Mart stores are one of the most frequent destinations of Americans. In a 24-hour period, one in five (20%) US adults have been to a Wal-Mart store, and over the course of a seven-day period, half of Americans (50%) have shopped at a Wal-Mart. | |
How Much Less Driving | June 2008
Most car and light truck owners are now doing less driving, and signs are that it is becoming less and less. A national study conducted in early June by Leo J. Shapiro & Associates finds that 79% of households owning a car or light truck report cutting back on driving. | |
How Americans Are Managing the Rising Price of Fuel | May 2008
As the price of gas approaches $4 and, in some cities, crosses that line, we are seeing a variety of adaptive behavior on the part of motorists. | |
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