Who We Are

If you had a blank canvas, what would you create?

Retail Intel helps retailers, marketers, designers and manufacturers paint the bold, new picture of retail—or what we refer to as “reimagined retail.” Retail Intel looks beyond discrete purchase behavior to understand the wider lifestyle contexts of shopping.

New, emerging access points to acquire not only goods, but experiences, are popping up everywhere. Consequently, consumers are changing the way they shop, with the ripple effect swiftly moving across the marketplace leaving retailers of all types scrambling to catch the wave.

For years, The Hartman Group, Inc. has been deeply immersed in consumer culture. Retail Intel builds on this foundation of understanding consumer behavior and lifestyle to develop the process for how reimagining retail can begin to take shape.

We have assembled a team of highly- qualified group of professionals from a variety of academic backgrounds such as sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, combined with seasoned veterans of strategy development and business acumen to provide an extraordinary, actionable perspective of the complex interaction and interdependence among the many variables that comprise the World of Retailing.

We are not simply a research vendor. We are your strategic reimagination partner. We focus on high-level, consumer-centric retail innovation and strategy projects.