Q4 2024 – Q3 2026
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Redefining Retail Therapy
Food Meets Everything
Food Service
Hospitality-grade experience expectations now standard across food service.
Where Convenience Meets Care
Convenience Retail
Convenience stores reinventing as full-service retail destinations. True Loyalty declined 5% for the first time.
Technology Meets Humanity
Retail Banking, AI, Digital Commerce, Pop-ups & Takeovers
AI-powered personalization reshaping digital commerce; pop-ups as brand strategy.
Fresh is the New Fast
Grocery, Specialty Retail, VM & QSR
5% decline in True Loyalty — first time in five years. Grocery reinventing as destination retail.
Consumer Personas & Luxury Shift
Food & Beverage, Luxury Retail, Hospitality & Holiday
Gen Z + Millennials will represent 80% of global luxury purchases by 2030.
The Power of Emotions
Experiential Retail, OOH & Collectibles
Pop-up market projected to reach $80B by 2027; collectibles as retail currency.
Trend Intelligence in Action
Imagine with Convenience
How Imagine applies trend intelligence to real-world client executions across convenience retail.
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