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New-Seller Savings Gives Sellers a Boost To Grow at Walmart

The start of the year is always an exciting time. It’s a time for reflection, setting goals, pushing boundaries and trying new things. This year, sellers can win big with us as Walmart Marketplace continues to grow and deliver a top-quality product selection and a world-class shopping experience.Our New Year’s resolution is simple: To be […]
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How to Get Discovered by U.K. Retailers: Understanding British Consumers

Before you launch your brand in the United Kingdom, it’s important to know what’s going on in today’s U.K. retail market as it may differ from the markets your brand currently has a presence in. Whether the British market is familiar territory or completely new, here’s a deep dive into understanding the U.K.’s marketplace, retailers, […]
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How to Start a Retail Business

Starting a business can be one of the most rewarding experiences of someone’s life, and the satisfaction that comes with owning a successful business can be life-changing. It isn’t all easy, but seeing your labor bear fruit can be worth the effort. Starting a retail business, in particular, is one of the most popular small […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Nike’s Journey To Marketing Excellence

When Nike’s ten business development principles were written by Rob Strasser in 1977 the words marketing, systems, research and planning were all dirty words inside of Nike’s culture. I know, I was there at a critical time in Nike’s growth. During those days Nike had very idiosyncratic, gruff, scruffy but brilliant leaders, who even thought […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Sam’s Club to Add 30+ Larger-Format Stores, 5 New Fulfillment Centers

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023. The club retailer also plans to open more than 30 larger-format stores, most of which will include enhanced perimeter departments, bigger healthcare spaces and […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

CMA to scrutinise ‘green’ claims in sales of household essentials

The CMA will examine the accuracy of ‘green’ claims made about household essentials – such as food, drink, and toiletries – to make sure shoppers are not being misled. The move is an expansion of ongoing work by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into ‘greenwashing’, which seeks to get to the bottom of whether […]
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  1. Department: Food

Wall’s launches new Twister Fruit Zingerrr ice lolly

UK supplier Unilever is introducing Wall’s first ever sweet and sour ice lolly with the launch of the Twister Fruit Zingerrr. The ice lolly has a combination of tangy apple, sour lemon and sweet blueberry flavours and is made with real fruit juice, no artificial flavours or colours and contains 65 calories per serving, says […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Millennials Dominated Holiday Shopping Spend — Here’s What it Means for 2023

In a year when holiday spending on gifts, travel and entertainment was down 1 percent from the year prior, one age group bucked that trend in a huge way. Millennials, perhaps aided by increased incomes due to “The Great Reshuffle,” told us it would spend a whopping 11 percent more than it did in 2021, […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Foot Locker Cuts Corporate Staff, Closing Sidestep Banner

Foot Locker is making cuts to its staff and store fleet as it looks to trim costs under new leadership. The footwear retailer on Thursday announced that it would eliminate an undisclosed number of “corporate and support roles,” which the company expects to account for about $18 million in cost savings on an annualized basis starting […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Retail Traffic Trends #112: Consumer Habits 2023

While some trends come and go, there were a few trends that have stayed with consumers throughout the year.   As online shopping continues to be a popular choice for consumers, physical stores can offer shoppers perks that e-commerce can’t replicate.    This week we look at trends to increase foot traffic and customer loyalty. […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Five States Reduce Grocery Taxes To Lessen Impact of Inflation

From the Washington Times: “A growing number of states have cut grocery taxes to relieve working Americans struggling with runaway inflation. “Five of the 13 states that taxed groceries last year — Kansas, Idaho, Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia — have since passed laws reducing their cut from supermarket transactions. That cut ranges from 4% to […]
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  1. Department: Food

Sales Up, Volume Down In 2022 Organic Produce Sales

“Organic fresh produce sales grew by 3 percent in 2022, while volume declined by –3.7 percent, as total sales topped $9.4 billion for the year,” according to the 2022 Organic Produce Performance Report released today by Organic Produce Network and Category Partners. “Total fresh produce sales gained 7.3 percent in dollars for the year but […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Your Views:  Spotlight

We had a story the other day about a poll suggesting that while ;people were cutting back on day to day expenses, they still want to indulge in occasional luxuries, which prompted MNB reader Rich Heiland to write: I used to use a statistic about Millennials in one of my presentations about finding and attracting […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Sales of herbal immune supplements rise

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – During the final quarter of 2022, even as the U.S. grappled with a “tripledemic” of flu, RSV and COVID-19, unit sales of vitamins and health supplements declined over the prior year while average unit prices rose, according to shopper intelligence leader Catalina. A clear exception was Herbal Immune Supplements, unit sales of […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Sam’s Club plans to add 30 new clubs

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Buoyed by record membership growth, Sam’s Club on Thursday announced plans to open more than 30 new clubs across the country, starting with a unit in Florida that is slated to open next year. The Walmart division also revealed a multiple-year plan to invest in and modernize its supply chain through new […]
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  1. Data & Insights

7 benefits of combining social and survey data

Big news, people: GWI has partnered with Audiense, the leading audience intelligence solution. “So what?” we hear you ask. Well, insights drawn from different sources – in this case GWI’s survey data and Audiense’s social data – paint a more detailed and reliable picture of what audiences think, feel and do. Or to put it […]
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  1. Merchandising

Mobile signal booster: your complete guide

Do you pay for internet data service but suffer every time you try to load a web page? Don’t worry, we will help you find issues with sky mobile signal! With a mobile signal booster, you will solve the problem of mobile phone coverage in an instant. But first, you should know all the subtleties […]
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Millennials Dominated Holiday Shopping Spend — Here’s What it Means for 2023

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