Tag: Home Improvement
Feb 22, 2026 | 5 minutes read | News
Consumer Edge: Big-Ticket Home Purchases Stalled in 2025 as Spending Shifts to Repairs, Décor and Essentials
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Feb 20, 2026 | 5 minutes read | News
U.S. consumers shift spending to décor and essentials as big-ticket home purchases stall
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Feb 18, 2026 | 5 minutes read | News
Study: Consumers delay big-ticket home purchases; investing in repairs, upkeep
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Jun 11, 2025 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Cracks in the Consumer Engine: High-Income Spending Shows Signs of Strain
With tariff talk continuing to dominate headlines, shoppers are becoming increasingly concerned about higher costs and their household budgets. Howev...
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Feb 12, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Mortgage payers outspent on home improvement, not furniture, in 2024
Home Improvement shoppers spend more in the 180 days before their first mortgage payment than in the 180 days after according to Earnest credit card ...
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Oct 3, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Are High Mortgage Rates Hampering Home Improvement?
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May 8, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Q1 US Home Furnishings Digest
The US home furnishings market remained weak during the first quarter of 2024, as inflation and high interest rates for new mortgages pressured prosp...
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Feb 13, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
January 2024 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
Earnest Analytics Spend Index powered by Orion transaction data decelerated in January, with a further deceleration in-store offsetting a large accel...
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Jan 8, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
December 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
Earnest Analytics Spend Index powered by Orion transaction data fell below year-ago levels in December, with a slight deceleration in in-store exacer...
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Dec 12, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
November 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Nov 28, 2023 | 5 minutes read | Insight Market Hit
Lower Expectations: CE Data Tracked LOW’s Revenue Miss
Following LOW’s revenue miss, management cited a pullback in DIY spending as the driver of the decline. Management did highlight one bright spot, h...
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Nov 8, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
October 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Oct 30, 2023 | 5 minutes read | Insights
CE Vision Brand Basket Use Case: Lowe's Consumer Transaction Data
Corporate clients are interested in uncovering which retailers are shopped on the same trip, in order to evaluate potential partnership opportunities...
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Oct 10, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
September 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Sep 13, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
August 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Aug 9, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
July 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Jul 12, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
June 2023 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Mar 7, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Home Goods, Wayfair Winning Customer Wallet Share from Bed Bath & Beyond
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Mar 1, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Early Tax Data Indicate Smaller Refunds; Benefits to Electronics, Apparel, and Beauty Brands
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Dec 7, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
2022 Retail Ranking: Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The Earnest First Choice Retailer Rankings are based on the credit and debit card spend of millions of de-identified U.S. consumers from the Orion sp...
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Nov 10, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
October 2022 Earnest Analytics Spend Index
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Oct 24, 2022 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Hurricane Ian a retailer challenge, restaurant boon
Consumer spending in the days prior to a hurricane making landfall can spike up to 30% as people stock up on fuel and essentials. Hurricane Ian was n...
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Oct 12, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
September 2022 Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index
Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index growth was flat YoY in September, as the in-store recovery rebounded and online decelerated. Gas...
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Jul 19, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
Consumer wallets shift from Online, Home to Gas
Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) transaction data captures consumer credit and debit card activity across thousands of companies and dozens o...
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Jun 8, 2022 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
May 2022 Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index
Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index decelerated from April, as low single digit in-store spending growth more than offset falling on...
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Jun 8, 2022 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Amid Target’s inventory woes, inflationary pressures test markdown abilities
Amid ongoing inventory issues, including a rise in out-of-stock SKUs, Target announced it would be right-sizing its inventory by implementing additio...
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Mar 10, 2022 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
February 2022 Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index
Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index (ERSI) reaccelerated from January, recovering from two months of consecutive decelerations as Om...
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Mar 7, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Turning the Screws on UK Home Improvement Analysis
As Home Improvement spend growth slows in the UK, which home improvement brands have the strongest foundation? In today’s Insight Flash, we exam...
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Jan 5, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
Holiday Retail 2021 Full Performance: More Apparel and Early Shopping
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Dec 15, 2021 | 5 minutes read | Consumer>Macro
Holiday Retail 2021 Data Shows Slowing Spend, Earlier Shopping So Far
Total aggregate consumer spending grew 3% YoY in the week ending Dec 7th according to the Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index (ERSI*...
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