Fish and Seafood

Retailers that cater to the multicultural seafood shopper will find an ocean of sales opportunities. Multicultural shoppers are twice as likely as white shoppers to identify as pescetarian and are more likely to use the seafood counter during grocery trips, reports the Collage Group, a Bethesda, Md.-based consumer research firm. Black (30.6%), Hispanic (29.4%), and Asian (25.7%) consumers are all outpacing white shoppers (15.1%) in counter visits, Collage Group states.

Restaurants

An engaged employee is a happier employee, and a happier employee works harder, is less likely to quit, and is better at serving customers. Those are the key findings in the inaugural quarterly report, titled The State of the Frontline Worker, by goHappy, a company established by the same team that founded Snagajob, the country's largest marketplace for hourly workers.

Miscellaneous

The number of external streaming devices connected to smart TVs in the U.S. declined by 31% in 2024, according to a report compiled by Samsung Ads. Samsung's Q1 2025 State of Video report, which culls data from the Advertising Research Foundation, claims that Roku alone went from having 40.3 million HDMI dongles, hockey pucks and other streaming peripherals connected to U.S. smart TVs in 2023 to just 28.1 million in 2024.