1. CPG: Food

Cadbury Dairy Milk brings back its Made to Share bar

Cadbury is bringing back its Cadbury Dairy Milk Made to Share limited edition range for 2026. The 2026 edition of Made to Share is building on the success of the 2025 campaign, with 12 new on-pack messages and a new consumer campaign that encourages sharing.… This story continues at Cadbury Dairy Milk brings back its […]
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Filshill teams rise to the challenge of winter weather conditions

JW Filshill, one of Scotland’s oldest independent food and drink wholesalers, has highlighted the “sterling efforts” of staff in ensuring KeyStore customers received timely deliveries during the recent spell of wintry weather. Renfrewshire-based Filshill, which supplies KeyStore convenience stores and independent retailers across Scotland and… This story continues at Filshill teams rise to the challenge […]
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Delamere teams up with Sony Pictures Animation’s Goat with an on-pack competition

Delamere has partnered with Goat, an animated action comedy film from Sony Pictures Animation, with an on-pack competition. The promotional collaboration includes the launch of an on-pack competition across Delamere’s fresh goats’ milk and goats’ butter, offering customers the chance to win a family holiday… This story continues at Delamere teams up with Sony Pictures […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

RADAR brings in former PVH/lululemon exec Jonathan Aitken for RFID Excellence role

RADAR, which leverages RFID overhead sensor technology to track and locate in-store inventory across Old Navy, American Eagle and other retailers, reports that Jonathan Aitken has joined as Senior Vice President, RFID Centre of Excellence. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Global On Product Technology at PVH Corp, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger […]
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Amazon Looks To Open New Big-Box Format Store

From The Information: “Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of Orland Park, Ill., […]
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FDA’s New Recommendations:  Divergent Perspectives

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)released the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030,” setting out the following priorities:  “Prioritize protein at every meal … Consume full-fat dairy with no added sugars … Eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, focusing on whole forms … Incorporate healthy fats from whole foods such as meats, seafood, […]
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Welcoming Back JOH, A Returning MNB Charter Sponsor

A Note From The Content Guy… I love it when companies believe in MNB’s value proposition – to provoke original thinking, innovation, and strategic investments in the future, and to do so while creating sustaining relationships with readers who make up our community.  It is even better when companies decide they want to sponsor MNB […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Holiday 2025 Category Quick Hits: Toys, Electronics, and Footwear Share Shifts

Download our latest report to see how Holiday 2025 reshaped category performance, brand share, and shopper behavior across Toys & Games, Consumer Electronics, and Footwear. Holiday 2025 revealed clear shifts in where shoppers spent and how brands and retailers performed during peak seasonal demand. This report breaks down how share moved across key categories, highlighting […]
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  1. Department & Category

Multigenerational Households Are Redefining Food Retail—and Fueling the Grocerant Niche

  More than a decade ago, Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® documented an early but powerful shift: the rise of multigenerational households was accelerating demand for mix-and-match meal components and driving growth in Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared foods. That observation has not only held true—it has intensified. According to the most recent Pew Research Center […]
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Royal Mail and Post Office form parcel locker partnership

Royal Mail and Post Office will partner to introduce parcel lockers at Post Office branches across the UK. The six-month trial will see parcel lockers installed outside stores, allowing customers to access them at their convenience, including outside of branch opening hours. Royal Mail lockers… This story continues at Royal Mail and Post Office form […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Guinness launches competition for stand-out staff

Guinness, the Official Beer and Official Non-Alcoholic Beer partner of the Premier League, has launched a new competition for convenience store owners – offering the chance to reward stand-out staff with a Premier League experience. With 80% of retailers actively supporting their local communities, the… This story continues at Guinness launches competition for stand-out staff […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

UPS’ Happy Returns pilots AI tool to halt decoy returns fraud

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. UPS’ Happy Returns is using artificial intelligence to stymie a particular strain of returns fraud in the thick of the post-holiday sprint for reverse logistics providers. The company announced in November that it is piloting two new capabilities with select shippers, including […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart teams up with Google’s Gemini for AI-assisted shopping

​[[{“value”:” Incoming CEO John Furner said the company is rewriting the retail playbook, in part with new agentic AI capabilities. Published Jan. 12, 2026 Incoming Walmart CEO John Furner. Courtesy of Walmart “}]]  Post Views: 14
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Marketing Metrics and Technoplasmosis

I recently spoke at a conference with Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, and he shared a fascinating insight about the influence of ad platforms on how we think about marketing. Rory said that many of the metrics that marketers chase are not designed to serve the brand. They’re designed to serve the platforms that […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

First for Papa Johns as pizza brand taps Google Cloud Food Ordering agentic solution

This week at NRF 2026, Papa Johns announced that it is the first partner for Google Cloud’s newly expanded AI solution, Food Ordering agent, which is helping the pizza brand deploy a fully unified voice and text AI ordering system aimed at removing friction across customer touchpoints. The Food Ordering agent is a part of […]
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  1. Data & Insights

California’s New AI Law Exposes the Real Compliance Problem

Frontier AI companies have spent the last decade operating at full speed with very few guardrails. Regulations have long been rumored, but slow to arrive, creating an atmosphere in which compliance is a promise developers have never needed to keep. But a new California law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 29, 2025 is […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Google Launches Direct Checkout in Search, Gemini

It was only a matter of time — following in the footsteps of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, Google is launching direct checkout on eligible product listings in the AI Mode section of Google Search and on its Gemini app. The list of launch partners for Google checkout includes Shopify and Etsy, names that will […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Walmart and Google Gemini team on AI discovery and shopping experiences push

Walmart and Google are gearing up to launch a new experience built by Walmart and accessible directly within Gemini using the Universal Commerce Protocol. Gemini will automatically include Walmart and Sam’s Club in-store and online products when it’s relevant. For example, when a customer asks for advice on camping equipment for the spring season, it […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart to Expand Drone Delivery to 150 More Stores in 2026, will Fly Coast to Coast from 270 Sites by 2027

Walmart will expand drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores this year, on a flight path that will establish a network of 270 drone delivery locations in 2027 stretching from Los Angeles to Miami. The expansion builds on the program’s success in the DFW region and metro Atlanta, where many customers have incorporated […]
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Walmart adding RFID tech to fresh categories

​Dive Brief The retailer worked with Avery Dennison on developing the solution in an effort to minimize food waste and improve inventory management. Published Oct. 23, 2025 Workers can better track inventory and determine when to rotate or mark down products with RFID technology, according to Walmart. Courtesy of Walmart
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‘A cultural shift’: Dollar Tree’s CEO on tech, AI adoption

At Dollar Tree’s investor day this month, the discount retailer gave a peek into how it’s catching up with the times — and AI is playing a key role. If one thing is certain, CEO Mike Creedon told investors, it’s that Dollar Tree must evolve. “And we are, from a single price point model to […]
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New Amazon smart delivery glasses help drivers navigate routes and complete deliveries

Amazon has unveiled new smart glasses designed to assist drivers in navigating their routes and completing deliveries. The AI powered technology provides hands free navigation, package scanning, and hazard detection directly in drivers’ field of view, eliminating the need to look down at their smartphones while making deliveries. The glasses feature computer vision technology that […]
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