While the warming weather and the hoped-for respite from COVID-19 outbreaks is spurring rising interest in a fresh wardrobe, outdoor recreation products, and gardening supplies and equipment, supply chains are not all able to keep up.
April 1, 2022This past week, COVID-19 outbreaks in Chinese industrial regions, Hong Kong, and elsewhere (including positive cases with the First Gentleman and former President Obama) pushed the pandemic back into the news, if not back onto the front pages where it had been for so long.
March 21, 2022Freedonia analysts will continue to watch corporate return-to-office plans and companies making moves to seize potential opportunities involving office workers, the flex workers, and the remote workers.
March 8, 2022Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea that a restaurant (save for the fast-food segment) would devote serious resources to expanding its operations in the take-out sector would be treated with derision. However, the COVID-19 has dramatically changed how the restaurant industry looks at carry-out.
January 13, 2022Over the past year and a half, the US building construction industry has been buffeted by a wide range of issues
October 14, 2021While the US economy has seen a number of changes due to the pandemic, one particularly stands out: the increasing use of e-commerce to purchase items that would have been normally bought in stores.
September 7, 2021Overall, retailers that saw the best gains had stocks and services that were linked to the away-from-home experience or simply benefited from the change of seasons and the warmer summer weather.
July 27, 2021Here we are… a year and a half after COVID-19 first came into the global consciousness with unprecedented lockdowns in China, with other countries to follow soon after that.
July 15, 2021An executive order signed in early July laid out the Biden administration’s plan to reduce the strength of monopolies across the US economy.
July 15, 2021Something we have frequently chronicled on this blog is the strong demand for new housing across the US.
July 15, 2021