wall street selects its top 5 retail stocks

Generally wall street is  not known  to pick their winners.Wall street does not reason  a spectacular quarter, or even an excellent 3 quarters.. The stock markets hates "suprises " and for that reason not many  brands  that might have once upon a time, media's poster boy.failed to  to satisfy wall street

However !It  now seems  that wall street has decided  and finally given it a thumbs up to the online retail industry and specially  Amazon. The company dominated Black Friday sales in the United States and is all but certain to be the number 1 source for last minute presents for many million people around the world. Amazon’s stock price more than doubled this year, bringing the company’s market cap to more than $300 billion. 

In contrast Wall street has given the brick and mortar retailers  like  Best Buy and Walmart  a pass,  and almost all of them has seen their stocks massacred and  crumble in 2015 as they struggle to break Amazon’s dominance in the online world.

how mobile beacon is disrupting consumer retail shopping

MOBILE BEACONS 

Mobile Beacons  a new proximity based technology which is designed to drive customer loyalty and in-store sales, is  set to  distrupt online retail in a big way.
Beacons are small, Bluetooth-enabled devices ( cabe placed to a wall or in the sales counter )  which send signals to the customers smartphone  once they are s within 50-100 feet of the device. Mobile beacon's  automatically start triggering personalized coupons, special offers,  personal recommendations and loyalty rewards. Typically, one beacon is needed for every 5,000 square feet of store space.

HOW DOES THE MOBILE BEACON WORK

Mobile beacons are the latest disruption based marketing's latest technology, that is promising to change the way "  marketers  and consumers interact.

Mobile beacons could be uniqely leveraged by brands and marketers across  physical stores  just at the  right moment..  A mobile beacon can be used by retailer to run personal recommendation's based on the " item, product or brand the customer has just seen or purchased . Additionally it can be used to send discounted coupons, membership reward points including loyalty benefits

This layer of " social and personal customization" including  personal recommendations, while shopping  is bound to " provide much relevant in-store shopping experience for  the consumer

Facebook has  recently announcement that it will begin testing mobile beacons as part of its new
Place Tips” Facebook also now offers beacon technology at no cost to retailers who have Facebook pages.

online retail engagement across mobile devices

Mobile Devices Dominate Online Retail  Engagement :% of time spent with online retail on smartphones and tablets

91% auto sales happened instore compared to 6% online

Consumer site visits increase the probability of instore experience and subsequent sales .According to Omnishopping retail data  94% of  US auto parts sales  happened instore compared to 6% online .

retail sales comparison : auto parts vs furniture vs electronics

How America Shops:  electronics vs auto parts vs furniture:  

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The above data comes from  U.S. Retail and Food Service Sales Track estimated U.S. consumer spending by type of store, based on data from the monthly and annual Retail Electronic and appliances retail sales grew the highest,followed by auto parts and  furniture sales 

the sheer size of chinese online retail imports

The biggest digital disruptions  in chinese market has been the growth of  china's online retail imports including growth of robots

retail growth in US increase 8% as compared to ecommerce growth of 20%

data from MasterCard SpendingPulse™, which looks at U.S. retail sales trends across cards, cash and checks, retail sales excluding auto and gas grew 7.9% during the traditional Black Friday to Christmas Eve shopping season. The biggest winners this season were eCommerce and furniture, with double-digit growth, while electronics and men’s apparel lagged well behind.Commerce grew roughly 20% compared to last year. This is not a total surprise, as 70% of U.S. consumers report doing more research online than before, according to our recent Omnishopper Guide

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e-retail sales have grown by 400% since last decade

Ecommerce has grown by leaps and bounds during the last decade from, 50 billion USD to 270 billion USD in 213. Leading this  online revolution is the online retail store Amazon with74 billion USD  revenues in 2013, compared with UPS 55billion USD

cpg, apparels and office supplies fastest growing online categories

EMIRATES, DELTA AND  UNITED  are among the worlds most valuable Airlines brand with a combined brand value of over$17.5 billion .The number one airlines brand with a highest brand value is EMIRATES.Emirates  continues to lead the sector with a 21% rise in brand value to US$6.6 billion. Formula 1, the French Open and most importantly football teams from PSG to Real Madrid and Arsenal to AC Milan all display the Emirates logo.

FASTEST GROWING ONLINE PRODUCTS CATEGORIES

 digital content and subscriptions are growing the fastest with 27% growth, while in terms of products, consumer packages goods have been  showing the fastest growing  eCommerce segment with 21% growth followed by  apparels and accessories sports and fitness wear are among  the  fastest growing online categories, followed by office supplies, home appliances and furniture.

global top 5 retail chains by continents : americas vs asia vs europe

The above chart shows the biggest global retail chains across the world by their revenue .
The data is based on the 18th annual Global Powers of Retailing report, produced by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) in conjunction with STORES Media.

 This report identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world based on publicly available data for fiscal 2013 (encompassing companies’ fiscal years ended through June 2014) and analyzes their performance based on geographic region, product sector, e-commerce activity and other factors. - Sthe European brands in the table have seen minimal growth or a decline in their brand values. Iberia has been the worst affected, its brand value has fallen 23% to $951m. Southwest Airlines achieved a 52% growth in brand value Airlines 50 Sector Analysis – Airlines after a strong financial year and American Airlines’ brand value soared 39% to $3,649m, moving it up to 5th place

why retail is an indicator of economic prosperity: retail jobs vs other industry

The UNITED STATES   have 3,793,621 retail establishments across the entire country.The below data from NRF showed on the form of a chart, shows where retail stands as compared to other industry in job creation in US

RETAIL INDUSTRY JOB CREATION AND ECONOMIC INDICATOR

Retail supports 1 in 4 American jobs

It’s not just about the jobs directly in retail. The industry supports nearly 5 million logistics jobs; 4 million management and administration jobs,. 2 million health care and service jobs; 2 million finance, insurance and real estate jobs; and 800,000 technology jobs.According to NRF economic prosperity and retail have a linear relationship 

country comparison : eCommerce revenues compared as a percentage of overall retail sales

The below chart shows " worldwide and global online retail sales revenues  as a percentage of total retail sales across geographies and countries . Globally online retail sales  across the world is expected to grow by 15% CAGR ( from 2014-2019 ) time period. In terms of  total retail revenues, Worldwide  online retail will constitute 9% of overall retail revenues  in 2019 as compared to 5.8% in 2014  

HOW MUCH DOES ONLINE RETAILS SALES CONTRIBUTE AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES BY COUNTRY AND REGION

• Online retail sales in US  is likely to constitute 12% of the overall retail sales by 2019.
• Online retail sales in North America  is predicted  to account  for 11% of overall retail sales.
• Asian online retail sales will constitute 10% of total retail revenues ,by 2019
• In Western Europe online retail sales is expected to contribute 10%of total retail sales, while Eastern Europe it will be 5.6%
• Russia  online retail is foretasted to form 5.2%of overall retail sales
• While eCommerce in Latin American nations is predicted to account  for a mere 3,2% of total retail sales 
• In Australasia online retail is expected to contribute 8.4% of overal retail sales revenues by 2019
• Mid east and African nations eCommerce sales as a percentage of total retail sales will account or the lowest ever with 1.6% 

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