Join us for a conversation with Caroline Wu, Research Director at Placer.ai, who will discuss an overview of macrotrends through the end of Q3 2025. These macrotrends include non-discretionary categories, discretionary categories, migration, return-to-office, tourism, and an emphasis on interesting trends we are seeing in downtowns and what this might mean for 2026.

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Speaker:

Caroline Wu
Director of Research at Placer.ai

Caroline brings expertise in retail, CRE, entertainment, media, CPG, and tourism, and specializes in synthesizing broad datasets into actionable recommendations for growth. She has worked as the US Director of Consumer Insights at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, VP of Retail Insights and Intelligence at Omnicom, and Senior Director at Kantar. Caroline holds an MA in Sociology from Stanford University and a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.