Retail Market Research Company

Retail Market Research Company

Delivering Market Research for Winning Retail Companies

Retail Market Research Overview
  • Retail Market Research Insights: Leverage deep consumer insights from comprehensive retail market research to understand shopper behaviors, preferences, and motivations—ensuring your offerings align with what your audience truly wants.
  • Market Research for Retail Trendspotting: Identify emerging trends and shifts in the retail and apparel space with data-backed analysis, helping your brand stay ahead in a fast-evolving marketplace.
  • Data-Driven Product Development: Use market research for retailers to fine-tune product concepts and align development with real-time consumer needs and expectations.
  • Optimizing the Retail Experience: Enhance both in-store and digital experiences through retail industry market research, driving greater engagement, satisfaction, and conversion.
  • Strategic Retail Marketing Campaigns: Develop highly effective campaigns grounded in market research in the retail industry, boosting audience connection and brand loyalty.
  • Retail Competitor Benchmarking: Conduct retail market research to evaluate your position in the competitive landscape and uncover areas for differentiation and growth.

Retail & Apparel Consumer Segments We Reach

  • Fashion Enthusiasts
  • Value Shoppers
  • Luxury Shoppers
  • Tech-Savvy Shoppers
  • Sustainability-Conscious Consumers
  • Gen Z & Millennials
  • Professional & Business Attire Seekers
  • Athleisure & Fitness Enthusiasts
  • Parents & Family Shoppers
  • Multicultural Audiences
  • Occasional Shoppers
  • Digital Influencers & Creators
  • Loyal Brand Followers
Retail Consumer Segments

Retail Market Research Services

  • Qualitative Research

  • Quantitative Research

  • Recruitment & Fieldwork

  • UX Research

  • Communities & Panels

  • Dial Tester

  • Secure Content Testing

Qualitative Retail Market Research

Uncover Deep Motivations Behind Shopping Behavior

Our qualitative services are designed to explore the “why” behind consumer decisions in the retail industry. Through in-depth interviews, focus groups, shop-alongs, diary studies, and ethnography, we provide rich, contextual insights into shopper attitudes, brand perception, and product interaction.

Ethnographic studies with fashion & lifestyle consumers

In-store and virtual focus groups

Shopper journey mapping

Retail UX interviews

Qualitative Retail Market Research

Quantitative Retail Market Research

Validate Strategies with Data-Backed Insights

Drive confident business decisions with scalable, high-precision retail market research surveys and advanced analytics. From brand tracking to concept testing, our quantitative methods help retailers understand performance metrics and forecast success.

Advanced analytics: MaxDiff, Conjoint, TURF

Awareness, Attitude & Usage (AAU) studies

Brand health tracking for retail brands

Retail concept, price, and package testing

Quantitative Retail Market Research

Retail Recruitment & Fieldwork

Reach the Right Retail Consumers—Fast

From budget-conscious shoppers to luxury buyers, our recruitment team delivers high-quality, pre-screened participants for all your market research in retail industry needs. We ensure demographic, behavioral, and psychographic alignment across projects.

In-person and virtual fieldwork

Nationwide and local shopper recruitment

Specialty panels: Gen Z, multicultural, digital buyers

High show rates and detailed tech checks

Retail Recruitment & Fieldwork

Retail UX Research

Optimize Digital Shopping Experiences

Improve your eCommerce or app interfaces through tailored market research for retailers focused on user experience. Our UX research methods provide actionable feedback from real users, ensuring your platforms align with retail best practices and shopper expectations.

Mobile ethnography & app flow testing

Usability testing of online retail platforms

A/B testing for conversion optimization

Journey mapping for digital commerce

Retail UX Research

Retail Insight Communities & Panels

Continuous Insights from Custom Retail Communities

Create a custom community or panel to continuously gather feedback on product launches, promotions, and shopper experiences. These platforms support both qualitative and quantitative retail market research needs in a flexible, scalable format.

Multimedia testing and co-creation activities

Fashion, CPG, and retail consumer panels

Pop-up or ongoing communities

Segmentation studies and trend tracking

Dial Tester for Retail Content Testing

Real-Time Feedback on Retail Content and Campaigns

Test your retail ads, promotional content, or in-store videos using our proprietary Dial Tester. Capture moment-to-moment reactions from your target audience, helping you fine-tune messages that resonate across channels.

Actionable reporting with heat maps & engagement curves

Evaluate retail video ads, in-store displays, and more

Segment analysis by demographic or shopper type

Optional integration with Secure Content Testing (SCT)

Dial Tester for Retail Content Testing

Secure Content Testing (SCT) for Retail Research

Unmatched Protection for Confidential Retail Content

When testing unreleased packaging, campaigns, or product visuals, our Secure Content Testing platform provides unparalleled protection. SCT ensures your assets remain confidential during retail industry market research—perfect for high-stakes launches.

Peace of mind for pre-release creative testing

User-level and forensic watermarking

Compatible with surveys, IDIs, focus groups

Works across media, print, concept boards, and more

Secure Content Testing (SCT) for Retail Research
Kids / Gen Alpha
Teens
Young Adults /
Gen Z
Adults & Parents
Educators
Creators & Influencers
Generative AI
VR / AR
Multicultural
And More!

Trusted by Top Global Brands

Kroger
Google
Nick
M TV
Strottman
Wendys
ESPN
YouTube
Sony
Paramount
Cotton
Columbia University
Nice Pak
Sirius XM
Pluto TV
Compassion
Go Health
Carnival
Calm
Sling
Meta
Zearn
Mattel
Good to Grow
Disney
The wonderful company
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Great Minds
Harvard University
Sesame Workshop
The Goliath Group
indeed

What Our Clients Are Saying About Us

  • With the knowledge gained in our user research efforts with Touchstone, we have been empowered to make more data informed decisions about our product by keeping user behavior and motivation at the forefront of our work. Along with being flexible in our partnership model, Touchstone has supported this effort by offering a dedicated team that continues to learn about our unique product and business needs and provides quick turnaround for recruitment, facilitation, and topline reports.

    Senior Digital Product Manager

    Ed-Tech Company

  • Touchstone Research has been an invaluable partner in our product design process, helping us reach a hard-to-reach population (K-12) students, and upholding the highest standards around safety and accessibility for participants. … Having worked with other research panels in the past, Touchstone has the best customer service, and panel quality. We plan to keep working together for the foreseeable future!

    UX Researcher

    Ed-Tech Company

  • My team has collaborated on a number of quantitative projects, and Touchstone has consistently delivered high-quality analysis and maintained excellent communication throughout the project. Their insights have directly contributed to shaping our team’s strategy and we plan to continue working with them in the future.

    UX Researcher

    Music & Video Streaming Company