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The Fresh Market Uses Shoppable Video to Engage E-Commerce ‘Superusers’

In episode 393 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Kevin Miller, chief marketing officer of The Fresh Market, a specialty grocery retailer based in North Carolina. Listen as Miller discusses the business’ vision to become one of America’s most-loved brands (0:50), his professional background in marketing (2:18), and The Fresh Market’s launch of the […]
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The Price of Eggs Isn’t the Only Thing Grocers Are Managing These Days

According to FoodIndustry.com, the U.S. food market is worth $1.5 trillion annually, or roughly 4 percent of the domestic gross product. $800 billion of that revenue is from supermarkets and food stores. Compare this to the U.S. apparel market, which is estimated to be worth $318 billion (Statistica). And while the retail industry often focuses […]
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Patagonia Looks To Scale Food Industry Mountain

Fast Company reports on Patagonia’s first acquisition in more than 20 years – a snack company called Moonshot, described as “a startup that makes snacks with a low-carbon footprint.” Moonshot, the story says, “launched two years ago with climate change in mind. The company works with wheat farmers in Washington State who grow organically – […]
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Green Zebra, Unique Healthy C-Store Format, To Close

Green Zebra, the Portland, Oregon, “healthy convenience store” that began operations a decade ago, announced this morning that it will wind down operations and close all three of its units at the end of the month. “We have been holding on by a thread since the pandemic started and have been in austerity mode since […]
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How Private Label Brands Create Affordable Joy

Recently, Procter & Gamble indicated that it would continue to raise prices even though lack of consumer demand – due to increased prices – was responsible for half of its sales decreases. P&G’s CFO indicated that the packaged goods behemoth’s focus on continuing price hikes would be acceptable to consumers because, after all, people still […]
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Amazon Pauses HQ2 Construction Process, Will Close 8 Go Stores

Amazon said on Friday that it is pausing construction of its vaunted HQ2 corporate offices in Arlington, Virginia, as well as permanently closing eight of its pioneering checkout-free Amazon Go stores. Bloomberg broke the story on Friday about Amazon’s HQ2 decision :  “John Schoettler, Amazon’s real estate chief, confirmed the pause … Schoettler said the […]
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Your Views:  In Praise Of “Mindless Exercises”

Got the following email responding to the story about the Whole Foods employee who didn’t do anything about shoplifters because the perpetrators seemed hungry and the company can afford it: OMG……..reading that story just made me drop my jaw to the floor. I spent twenty-four years of my life chasing people down without hesitation whenever […]
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Amazon Go Not Sustainable Yet

  At the intersection of fresh food retail and the consumer is a fledgling concept by Amazon called Amazon Go. After spending billions on Whole Food and stumbling, they rolled out Amazon Fresh a grocery store with technology and fresh food but it has failed to meet or exceed consumers expectations as well. So, they […]
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Instacart Expands Enterprise Offerings with Display Ads and Order Management for Deli and Produce Items

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. New capabilities include online and in-store solutions to capture new ad revenue, the ability to bring more of the store online and seamless end-to-end fulfillment solutions. These new capabilities are now available […]
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Specialty Retailers Make Progress In Customer Satisfaction Scores

The American Customer Satisfaction Index’s (ACSI) Retail and Consumer Shipping Study 2022-2023 is out, reporting that “while overall customer satisfaction with the Retail Trade sector slips 0.5% to a score of 74.7 (out of 100),” significant ground has been gained by a number of retailers, especially those with a specialty focus. Some excerpts: •  “Customer […]
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Instacart Unveils Enhanced Platform Innovations

Instacart announced this morning a number of platform innovations that build on its evolution from a retail delivery provider to a business that enables greater connectivity and integration of various technological components. Among them, just in time for the National Grocers Association (NGA) Show in Las Vegas this weekend, is the announcement that there will […]
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FTC Won’t Challenge Amazon’s One Medical Acquisition

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided not to challenge Amazon’s proposed $3.49 billion acquisition of 1Life Healthcare, parent company to One Medical, which provides membership-based primary healthcare services to employees for more than 8,000 companies in a dozen major US markets.  This is Amazon’s third largest acquisition, after Whole Foods ($13.7 billion in 2017) […]
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The Shoplifting Debate:  Ethical Questions In The Supermarket Aisle

Bon Appétit has a story noting that “as inflated food bills continue to hammer customers, the conversation around shoplifting is heating up. Some shoplifters say stealing up to 80% of their food offsets skyrocketing costs of living and combats greedy grocers who are using inflation as an excuse to hike up prices unnecessarily.” And so, the story offers an interview […]
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Grocerants at the Intersection of Growth and Success

  The consumer is dynamic not static.  At the intersection of consumer migration to new avenues of distribution, and the wiliness of chain restaurants to move with consumers fast enough, is year over year customer counts.  It’s at the intersection that Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, asks are you as […]
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Bing is quickly learning about the Grocerant Niche Are You

  Top of the day to you!  The team at Foodservice Solutions® wants to thank Microsoft’s Bingfor writing today’s Blog.  Our team ask some basic questions about the grocerant niche and here is what Bing came up with: According to the web search results, Steven Johnson is the founder of Foodservice Solutions® and the resident […]
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New Fresh Market Offering Brings Together Retail Media and Livestreaming

Specialty food retailer The Fresh Market is expanding its partnership with video commerce platform Firework to launch what it is calling a “shoppable video live commerce (SVLC) retail media network (RMN).” The Fresh Market will leverage the Firework platform to enable a video-driven RMN experience. Brands will have the opportunity to run sponsored video ads […]
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Fresh Market To Launch Shoppable Retail Media Network

The Fresh Market announced that it is expanding its relationship with Firework to launch what the companies are calling “the US’s first-ever Shoppable Video-Live Commerce (SVLC) retail media network (RMN).”   According to the announcement, “The Fresh Market will offer brands the opportunity to run video ads as sponsors across their ongoing livestream series, which […]
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Firework’s booth at Groceryshop’s exhibit hall on Sept. 20, 2022. Catherine Douglas Moran/Grocery Dive

Firework and The Fresh Market expand partnership with shoppable videos

The new retail media platform, which lets brands sponsor video ads across the retailer’s ongoing livestream series, is a first for the industry, according to the companies. Dive Brief: Video commerce platform Firework is expanding its longstanding partnership with The Fresh Market to launch what it claims is the first U.S. shoppable video-live commerce retail media network, according […]
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FT: Amazon CEO Preparing to ‘Go Big’ on Grocery Investments

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is reportedly planning to double down on the ecommerce giant’s physical grocery business despite recently announced plans to put growth on hold, according to the Financial Times. Jassy blamed the company’s grocery struggles on a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic and noted that it was ready to “go big” on […]
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Jassy Asserts That Amazon Is Ready To “Go Big” On Physical Stores

The Financial Times reports that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that the company is ready to “go big” on bricks-and-mortar stores, despite the fact that in recent days Amazon seems to have put its physical store opening plans on hold. Jassy blames the the pandemic for the problems being experienced by the company’s physical stores, […]
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Brands Embrace TikTok Creators To Drive Growth

The New York Times has a piece about “making TikTok content for brands is the hot new gig. As the social media platform continues to explode in popularity, brands are hiring college students and other young people — sometimes with pay and sometimes with college credits — to help them navigate the app, which can […]
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What Goes Around Comes Around:  The Incumbent Advantage

Excellent piece in the Financial Times by opinion columnist Brooke Masters entitled, “The Revenge of the Incumbents,” in which she talks about how bricks-and-mortar stores appear to have stolen momentum from e-commerce companies. “For years, start-ups and other digitally focused groups enjoyed a massive advantage in the form of cheap funding,” she writes. “Investors, who […]
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United Natural Foods Natural & Conventional Show Delivers Solutions to Help Grocery Customers Remain Competitive in Macro Environment

PROVIDENCE, R.I.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #Budget–UNFI wrapped up its Natural & Conventional Spring & Summer Show in Orlando, Fla. this week, hosting over 1,000 brands and more than 2,000 customers.
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Worth Reading:  The Whole Foods Worker Who Climbed Everest 10 Times

The New York Times writes about Lhakpa Sherpa, an employee at a West Hartford, Connecticut, Whole Foods, who has climbed Mount Everest 10 times, and plans to go back an 11th – and even sees her physical labors at the store, carrying large boxes of fruits and vegetables, as part of her training. You can […]
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Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value

Supermarket giant Tesco came under fire following the announcement that it will be reducing the value of Clubcard reward vouchers from June 2023. The reduction will come into force after… The post Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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aisle 3 exits the CSS business and uses proceeds to support growth in sneaker category

AI powered shopping platform aisle 3 has completed the sale of its Google Comparison Shopping Site (CSS) service to Product Hero. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, other than it being all cash. The sale consolidates market share for CSS service provider Product Hero, which works with the likes of Rituals and Ikea. […]
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Kroger lands deal for self-driving truck deliveries

Get ready because the empty truck cabs in motion are coming. Gatik, which is involved in autonomous middle-mile logistics, has announced a multi-year commercial collaboration to transport customer orders within Kroger’s Dallas distribution network. The operations will launch in a few weeks. Under the collaboration, Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will transport fresh, customer-favorite products from […]
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Albertsons Redesigns and Expands Open Nature Own Label Line

Albertsons yesterday unveiled what it said was “the redesign of its Open Nature brand as the company strives to become the brand of choice for those health-conscious shoppers seeking a more balanced lifestyle. Open Nature, which is part of Albertsons Cos. Own Brands portfolio, provides shoppers with tasty foods made with thoughtfully chosen ingredients that […]
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