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Retail Market Research in Seconds With AlphaSense

Whether you are conducting research to better understand the retail market, keep tabs on your competitors, or spot your next big investment in the retail space, AlphaSense can help you make the right business decisions with confidence and speed.

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Why AlphaSense is the Leading Market Intelligence Platform for Retail

With AlphaSense, leading organizations can conduct more comprehensive quantitative and qualitative research, giving them the competitive edge against their peers and the ability to make confident business decisions.

AlphaSense’s extensive content universe provides access to 10,000+ sources of private, public, premium, and proprietary content—indexed, searchable, and all in one place. Analysts, researchers, and decision-makers in the retail sector have access to exclusive industry research reports often found in disparate locations or behind expensive paywalls.

In addition to aggregating company documents—such as global and SEC filings, press releases, company presentations, earnings transcripts, and ESG reports—and premium news outlets, AlphaSense provides access to the following proprietary content sets:

  • Wall Street Insights®– A collection of leading equity research from 1,000+ sell-side and independent firms, covering global industries, sector themes, and companies. These resources are indexed, searchable, and available from the AlphaSense platform.
  • AlphaSense Expert Insights– AlphaSense Expert Insights solutions includes the Expert Transcript Library—an ever-expanding library that currently hosts 185,000+ expert call transcripts with competitors, industry experts, professionals, customers, and former and current executives—as well as Expert Call Services. Expert Insights prioritizes compliance throughout the content development process and has a team of trained compliance reviewers who ensure research safety for clients.

AlphaSense can save you hours per project by centralizing the insights you need and delivering them to you with intelligent, AI-based smart search technology. Features like Smart Synonyms™ and sentiment analysis recognize the intent behind your search and zero in on only the most important insights contained within each source.

Automated alerts and customized watchlists ensure you never miss an update from the companies and industries you most care about. Advanced filtering features help you easily get to the types of content needed to meet specific research needs.

These features and more are why G2 and TrustRadius have rated AlphaSense a leader in market intelligence for corporations and financial institutions alike.

Retail Market Broker Insights From the AlphaSense Platform

Has Consumption Changed Forever? Post COVID-19: What’s Stuck?

Learn what HSBC is saying about the pandemic’s impact on consumption patterns and what to expect going forward.

Love, Lock, Stocks, and Two Smoking Jewelers

HSBC discusses the projected growth of luxury jewelers Tiffany and Cartier in 2023.

From Rabbit Hole to Happy Bunny: How Chinese Shoppers Are Changing Luxury’s Outlook

HSBC discusses what the reopening of mainland China means for the luxury retail sector

UK: Anatomy of the Consumer 2023

HSBC discusses the main rising trends in 2023 for UK consumers and highlights 17 stock ideas across Food Producers, Food and Non-Food Retail, Travel and Leisure.

European Staples and the Chinese Reopening

HSBC discusses the connection between exposure to mainland China and performance of European Stapes and highlights key sub-sectors where upside to estimates still exists.

Drone Disruption: Transforming Industries

HSBC discusses how growing commercial and consumer use of drones may disrupt certain industries, as well as the key factors influencing the drone industry’s evolution.

European Concessions: Tailwinds on the Horizon

HSBC discusses trading activity across European concession operators following COVID-19 and shares key insights on what to expect from certain concession names in the near future.

Global Beverages: Brand Power Matters

HSBC provides its outlook for the global Coke system and Constellation Brands in 2023.

Additional Insights From the AlphaSense Platform

CPG Market Overview & Outlook for 2023 and Beyond

This is a blog post that gathers insights from the platform to analyze the CPG market and all emerging trends, including those in the retail space, for 2023 and beyond.

Retail Media: A Growing Multibillion-Dollar Market

In this blog post, we dive into the logistics behind retail media, why it’s gained recent popularity within the market, and who’s leading in terms of operations.

Tomorrow’s Consumer: The Future of Retail, Luxury, and Consumption

In this blog post, we discuss some of the key insights from HSBC’s Global Head of Consumer and Retail Research on the luxury retail market in 2022 and what to expect going forward.

Former Competitor Believes the Outlook for B2B Office Supply Is Positive on Return to Office While Retail Remains Challenged

In this expert call, a prior senior director at Staples gives his thoughts on the B2B office supply outlook for 2023.

Former Competitor Believes the Integration of AI Visuals Will Disrupt Consumer Purchasing Behavior

In this expert call, a former senior manager at Macy’s shares his thoughts on the integration of artificial intelligence in the retail space.

Former Competitor Believes Strong Innovative Product, Good Inventory Management and Adding New Services Is Key to Retail Success

In this expert call, a former Macy’s VP shares his thoughts on how retail companies can successfully make it through the economic downturn in 2023.

Inside the Retail Stores of the Future

This is an article from the trade journal Commercial Property Executive that details the changes the retail industry is currently going through, particularly when it comes to blending the digital shopping experience with the physical.

Miscellaneous Store Retailers Global Market Report 2023 [Financial Services Monitor Worldwide]

This is an article from the trade journal Financial Services Monitor Worldwide, detailing expected trends for 2023 in the global retail market.

Pinpoint Market-Moving Trends Faster With AI Search Technology

Our platform not only aggregates all of the content you need to make rapid data-driven decisions, it also helps cut through the noise with advanced AI search functionality.

Here’s how:

Semantic Search

Instead of digging through fragmented reports and alerts, our semantic search ensures you are the first to know of any new or relevant information on an event, company, or topic of interest. OurAI search technology automatically recognizes what you are looking for and delivers the results that match the intent behind your query. This means you don’t have to do multiple searches to get the results you need, and can be more confident in the comprehensiveness and accuracy of your research.

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Sentiment Analysis

With AlphaSense, you can use AI-based sentiment analysis to identify, quantify, and analyze levels of emotion within text. Understanding sentiment can help you catch the subtle inflection points in language that move markets and provide early indicators of shifting corporate performance. This feature works in seconds, saving research professionals hours previously spent combing through company documents and expert transcripts for the best insights.

Sentiment Analysis

Generative AI

Unlike other generative AI tools that are focused on consumer users and trained on publicly available content across the web, AlphaSense takes an entirely different approach. Our Smart Summaries feature leverages our 10+ years of AI tech development and draws from a curated collection of high-quality business content.

AlphaSense Smart Summaries, generative AI for business

With Smart Summaries, you can glean instant earnings insights, reducing time spent on research during earnings season and ensuring you quickly capture a company outlook.

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Level Up Your Retail Market Research With AlphaSense

AlphaSense is the must-have tool for anyone conducting market research in the retail space. Our vast content library, combined with proprietary AI search technology, streamlines, enhances, and speeds up research workflows—without ever sacrificing confidence or comprehensiveness. Level up your research and intelligence processes and get your competitive advantage with AlphaSense.