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2025 Back-to-School Predictions Report

2025 Back-to-School Predictions Report Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/09/2025 – 12:56pm This Back-to-School (BTS) season, families are more focused than ever on squeezing their wallets, protecting their health, and making smart, intentional purchases. They’re weighing every decision — focusing on not only price, but also emotional and practical value. That gives brands and retailers a […]
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Tesco F&F online – the good, the bad, and the glitchy: our most read retail technology articles from last week

Check out the articles on this here website that caught your fancy last week, including Marks and Spencer, PoundFun, H&M Group, Centra, Carrefour Belgium, StrongPoint, THG Ingenuity, Asda, LIveRamp, and Amazon. Marks and Spencer lacked business continuity plan amid ongoing cyber attack chaos, M&S insider claims An M&S insider has talked to Sky News about […]
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Travel Hub Retail Media with WHSmith North America Media Network’s Allison O’Keefe

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Allison O’Keefe, Partnership Director at WHSmith North America Media Network, Powered by SMG. WHS Media is the first-ever in-store travel Retail Media Network, connecting brands to consumers across travel hubs in North America. Find Allison on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-o-keefe-42b1a830/Find WHSmith Media on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/whsmith-north-america-media-network/Find WHSmith […]
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Packaging Matters: The Cost, Sustainability, and Strategic Role of Packaging in Fresh Meals and Meal Components

  When you think about a restaurant meal or a ready-to-eat fresh meal component, your first thoughts probably center around taste, quality, or convenience according to Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. But behind every delicious bite is something just as crucial to a food business’s success: packaging. In today’s […]
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UberEATS: Redefining Meals, Meal Components, and the Future of Foodservice

  In 2014, Uber, the San Francisco-based ride-sharing powerhouse valued at over $40 billion, quietly began to transform another industry: food delivery. With the launch of its meal delivery service — first piloted as UberFRESH in Los Angeles and Barcelona — Uber laid the foundation for what would become UberEATS, officially launching in New York […]
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From Barriers to Bridges: Rethinking Medication Access for 2025

Today’s guest post comes from Mike Cohn, Vice President, Network Operations at CoverMyMeds. Mike shares key takeaways on patient access and affordability from CoverMyMeds’ 2025 Medication Access Report. He focuses on the systemic fragmentation that exists across payers, providers, and pharmacies. Mike explains how these silos delay treatment and lead to increased out-of-pocket costs. To […]
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Black audiences are a blockbuster hit 

Black Americans are 65% more likely to head to the movies during opening weekend, according to Nielsen Scarborough. But multiply that with a near insatiable demand to have the identities, cultures, aspirations and experiences of the Black community represented through media? Now that’s a blockbuster strategy.  The recent record-breaking release of Sinners, the new original […]
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ThredUp Makes Resale Technology Free for All, Plans New Peer-to-Peer Offering

Online resale platform ThredUp has made a bold move in its effort to promote the development of circular retail more broadly. The company is making its resale-as-a-service (RaaS) technology free and open source, meaning that the underlying code powering its branded resale shops is now available for any company to access and use at no […]
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Rite Aid blames latest bankruptcy on retail operations

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. For its 2023 bankruptcy, which ended last fall, Rite Aid blamed macroeconomic factors and business challenges arising from the pandemic. For its 2025 bankruptcy, which commenced Monday, the drugstore chain says its front-of-store retail operations are largely at fault. In a letter […]
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Asda taps LiveRamp data collaboration platform as grocery giant expands retail media proposition

Following the launch of LS Eleven Media Services’ latest retail media proposition, Asda Access, in January this year, this has now been extended to include offsite (Meta), onsite (Asda.com) and D2C owned channels including email marketing and Asda Rewards. LS Eleven Media Services has selected LiveRamp as its data collaboration partner to bring Asda Access […]
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Center Store Grocery Merchandising with Wakefern’s Jeff Mondelli

The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Vice President of grocery merchandising at Wakefern Food Corp. Jeff is a remarkable example of a pharmacist expert and leader now transformed into an everyday grocery merchant. We were so impressed by his leadership, he is the winner of the DSN (Drug store news) + CPGGGUYS retail […]
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Wednesday Eye-Openers

With brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary… •  DoorDash To Acquire Deliveroo From the New York Times: “DoorDash announced two deals worth billions of dollars on Tuesday, saying it has agreed to acquire Deliveroo, the British food delivery company, and SevenRooms, a platform used by hotels and restaurants to manage reservations and marketing. “The […]
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Your Views:  “Fear Is The Path To The Dark Side” – Yoda

On Monday, in my FaceTime commentary, I noted that in a Town Hall presentation at the WAFC convention, Albertsons never really addressed the new realities facing the company in the wake of the collapse of its proposed acquisition by Kroger.  I also was expecting some explanation to vendors of the company’s strong line against absorbing […]
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Follow the 340B Dollar: Senator Cassidy Exposes How CVS Health and Walgreens Profit as 340B Contract Pharmacies

Two weeks ago, Senator Bill Cassidy—now chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)—dropped a must-read, eyebrow-raising report on the out-of-control 340B Drug Pricing Program. (Link below.) The report reveals previously confidential information showing how billions are funneled to health systems and pharmacies—with manufacturers unable to follow the flow. Below, we […]
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Winning Strategies for Financial Services Advertising

Webinar Winning Strategies for Financial Services Advertising How to achieve maximum ROI and peak ad performance Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Register now Webinar Winning Strategies for Financial Services Advertising How to achieve maximum ROI and peak ad performance Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Register […]
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Claritas Rx’s Webinar: Achieve Specialty Pharma Success with AI: Enhance Care, Elevate Fill Rates by 20% and Improve Patient Adherence

Participate in Claritas Rx’s upcoming webinar to learn innovative strategies designed to increase your fill rates by 20% and enhance patient adherence. The webinar seeks to elevate your operational efficiency and improve patient care standards.  Join Claritas Rx experts as they lead you through methods intended to optimize patient care coordination, featuring an in-depth real-world […]
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Consumerism From The Lens of Gen Z with Shaan Modi (we met at CAGNY)

The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Shaan Modi, from New Jersey. Shaan is still in high school but was spotted by us at CAGNY (the annual consumer analysts gathering with senior CPG brand leaders) down in Florida in February. We observed him attend several sessions, and we quite surprised to see someone from […]
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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  From WAFC, “Albertsons’ Rose-Colored Glasses”

I’m reporting this week from the annual Western Association of Food Chains (WAFC) Convention in Palm Desert, California – a great place to network and learn, which is appropriate since a focus on education is a primary value for the organization.   On Sunday, in one of a series of Town Halls in which retailers […]
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How To Sell Your Product To Best Buy

Are you a small consumer electronics product brand who’s trying to figure out how to sell to Best Buy? If so, you are not alone. Best Buy is the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the US for consumer electronics, which is why thousands of brands attempt to get their products in the company’s stores every year. In […]
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How To Sell Your Product To Target

Are you a small product brand who’s trying to figure out how to sell to Target? If so, you’re not alone. Target is a huge retailer, which is why thousands of brands attempt to get their products in the company’s stores every year. In the end, only a handful of vendors will cross the finish line […]
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Are You Ready For QVC?

Selling to QVC has become a powerful marketing strategy for companies looking to attract customers and boost their revenue. With global TV shopping network giants such as QVC as well as HSN and other smaller networks, these platforms can offer a significant boost to a business’s bottom line. With a combined annual revenue of over […]
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A Guide on How to Approach Retail Stores to Sell Your Product

Developing and launching a product that can help you gain profit is the first step that you have to overcome in starting or growing a wholesale business. However, the real challenge for entrepreneurs comes after the product launch— and that is sales and distribution to retail stores. However, the trick of the trade is that […]
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Bath & Body Works Bets that the Nose Knows

Bath & Body Works will spotlight the sneakily powerful sense of smell via its Come Back To Your Senses creative platform, kicking off with a new commercial featuring Jessica Williams from the AppleTV+ comedy Shrinking that plays off of high-tech tech announcements. In the ad, which will air during the Kentucky Derby on May 3, […]
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Unlocking the Gate: The Critical First 24 Hours of Patient Hub Engagement

Today’s guest post comes from Kristine McGaughey, Vice President, Implementation at ConnectiveRx and Sam Blake, SVP, Hub Product at ConnectiveRx. Sam and Kristine discuss the importance of the first 24 hours of a patient’s engagement with a hub services program. They outline five reasons why two components—patient enrollment and successful benefits verification—dictate the effectiveness of […]
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Robinson-Patman Compliance in the Age of Shoppable Media

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Brandon Nutter, co Founder and CTO of Ampd, which connects Google Ads directly to the world’s largest marketplaces like Amazon and turn incremental revenue all the way up, and Steve Pet, Antitrust Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Find Brandon Nutter on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonnutter/ […]
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How grocery continues to drive Walmart’s top line

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Grocery continues to be a key financial driver for Walmart, according to the retailer’s newest annual report released last week. The key business segment brought in $276 billion in net sales for Walmart U.S. for its fiscal year 2025, which ended Jan. 31, […]
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Food Delivery: The Rise of a Retail Channel All Its Own

  In the 1990s, the seeds of food delivery’s evolution were planted by pioneering companies like CyberSlice.com, Webvan.com, CyberMeals.com, Food.com, and EZ2Get.com. Though many of these startups were ahead of their time—challenged by sluggish internet speeds, underdeveloped logistics infrastructure, and underwhelming funding—they laid the foundational marketing and operational frameworks for what has today become a […]
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Charted: How Do U.S. Universities Make Their Money?

See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Charted: How Are American Universities Funded? This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways More than half of American public college and […]
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What’s next for Instacart as CEO Fidji Simo announces decision to join OpenAI as head of applications?

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is departing the grocery technology company to join OpenAI as its Chief of Applications. In an email to employees, she said: “Let me start by saying this was an incredibly hard decision because I love this company. We are operating incredibly well as our last earnings results have shown. Our strategy […]
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Personalized Disruption: Grocery’s Secret to Breaking Old Habits

There’s no shortage of talk about technology that’s going to redefine, dominate, or transform retail this year. Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. There is no shortage of tech hyperbole in retail. But then there’s the occasional exception — a technology that genuinely does […]
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State of the Consumer Report

[Week of May 9] Timely insights on consumer behavior, pricing, and retail trends This weekly snapshot highlights the most relevant signals shaping where and how consumers are spending—from e-commerce and inflation shifts to essential vs. discretionary demand. What you’ll get from this week’s report: Cross-border e-commerce slowdown: Learn how tariff pressures are reshaping sales trends […]
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