At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from December 2024.
ICSC
A massive 79% of adults shopped the weekend after Thanksgiving, according to a study done by ICSC. The full study is available on their blog.
ICSC’s 2024 Post-Thanksgiving Weekend Survey Reveals 207 Million Consumers Shopped | ICSC
The Atlantic
2024 was a rough year for casual dining restaurants like Red Lobster and TGI Fridays, as it seemed like every month we heard about bankruptcies and mass closures. Has America lost its taste for these longtime middle class establishments?
How America lost its taste for the middle – The Atlantic
Placer.ai
The week of Thanksgiving is one of the busiest times at airports nationwide. It also brings traffic to places like zoos and museums as people try to entertain relatives in town. What other kinds of patterns do you see around the holiday?
Pre-Thanksgiving Travel & Leisure Visitation Patterns – Placer.ai Blog
Carto
If you are a map and analytics geek, you will love the list that they put together of amazing data visualizations.
24 of the best maps, visualizations & analysis from 2024
The U.S. Census Bureau
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and many businesses benefit from it. The Census wrote a blog all about holiday fun—and which states contribute most—from beer and wine manufacturing, to where our Christmas trees come from, and even which places in the U.S. have the most holiday sounding city names (we see you, Garland, TX).
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Many Businesses
Fox Business
It may be hard to believe, but according to a new report, there were 177 shoplifting incidents each day nationwide in 2023. Fox Business digests what that means for retailers.
Retail theft surges 93% since before COVID-19 pandemic | Fox Business
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