Dan Frommer

Hello hello! It’s Dan Frommer, back with The New Consumer . Happy New Year! And, welcome new members! I’ve topped you up with a few extra weeks. I’ll be back in New York next week, speaking at the big NRF retail show , along with Tecovas , the fast-growin... See more

I’m excited to share a new Consumer Trends report, my latest collaboration with Coefficient Capital . This latest Consumer Trends report is a 122-slide presentation that you can view and download for free . Please feel free to share widely. It’s the lates... See more

Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have not torpedoed the food and CPG industries the way some had feared. But they do drive meaningful shifts in users’ spending. I recently watched a new, hourlong presentation from Circana about GLP-1 users’ chang... See more

If you look closely at the crowd shots during a Chicago Cubs home game at Wrigley Field, you’ll notice a pattern: Amidst the sea of fans in jerseys and logo merch, people wearing blue shirts with only a sentence of white text. Perhaps, this week for the p... See more

Is a credit card with an $800 annual fee worth it? For most people, almost certainly not. But that’s how much Chase is now charging for its flagship Sapphire Reserve Visa card: $795 to be exact — a classic sticker-shock concealer — up $245 from its previo... See more