What happened in retail in Q1?
(A lot!)
What’s up:
🔺 Tariffs
🔺 Supply chain shifts
🔺 AI adoption
🔺 Value-oriented retailers’ store counts
What’s down
🔻 Retailers with declining relevance
🔻 The status quo and certainty
🔻 DEI programs
Scroll through all the top retail trends from Q1 and you’ll see the overarching theme was disruption.






What Q1 2025 retail trends would you add?
Related:
2025 Retail PEST Analysis – report
2025 Retail PEST Analysis – video
2025 Retail Strategy Trends – report
2025 Retail Strategy Trends – short video