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Articles on acquisitions in the retail industry.

  1. Data & Insights

Cross-Channel Marketing for Retailers: What’s Working and What’s Not

Cross-channel marketing should attract new customers and deepen relationships with the ones you already have. As a marketer in the retail industry, your cross-channel marketing campaigns should create a cohesive, consistent customer experience that feels relevant and seamless. The question is, do you have the right technology and tools to achieve that? MoEngage surveyed more […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Loss Prevention Trends shaping retail in 2024

Loss prevention in the retail sector is undergoing a transformative phase in 2024, necessitated by the imperative to protect profits amid a multitude of challenges. From the surge in shoplifting to broader concerns like shrinkage, retailers are confronted with multifaceted issues demanding innovative solutions. This report delves into key trends in loss prevention, shedding light […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

3 Keys to Creating Experiences that Gen Alpha Loves

Gen Alpha is poised to reach 2 billion people by 2025, making it the largest generation in history, according to Matt Smith, Trends Manager at GWI. However, the influence and impact of this consumer base already are significant, considering the heightened role they’ve played in household decision-making processes since the start of the pandemic. “Families […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Gelson’s Closes (Jinxed?) Laguna Beach Store

The Orange County Register reports that Gelson’s has closed its store in Laguna beach, California, “citing unprofitability and tough economics.” “The limited population of the area coupled with challenging economic headwinds for grocers in California have unfortunately made this decision necessary,” said John Bagan, Gelson’s president-CEO.  “Despite an amazing and dedicated team, Laguna Beach has […]
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  1. Acquisitions, Divestitures & Mergers

Macy’s Confirms Receipt of Revised Acquisition Proposal

Macy’s confirmed on Sunday that it received a revised proposal from two of its major investors, Arkhouse Management Co. and Brigade Capital Management, to acquire each of the remaining shares in Macy’s they don’t already own for $24 per share — up from an earlier offer of $21 per share — for a deal value […]
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  1. Corporate Finance

Macy’s, Inc. Confirms Receipt of Revised, Unsolicited, Non-Binding Proposal from Arkhouse and Brigade

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE: M) today confirmed that it has received a revised, unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Arkhouse Management Co. LP (“Arkhouse”) and Brigade Capital Management, LP (“Brigade”) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Company for $24.00 per share in cash. The Macy’s, Inc. Board will carefully review and evaluate the […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Questions Raised About Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions

The Washington Post has a piece about Amazon’s efforts “to consolidate its telehealth, pharmacy and primary-care services following its $3 billion acquisition of One Medical in 2022. Earlier this month, Amazon laid off hundreds of employees across Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical and announced a corporate restructuring. Current and former employees say the move reignited […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Key Takeaways from the Wiser Industry Leaders Brand Panel: Challenges and Adaptations

Navigating the current retail landscape presents a unique set of challenges that retailers and brand manufacturers must face. One crucial theme addressed during a recent Customer Panel hosted by Wiser Solutions concerned the deficit of labor resources within the retail sector. Panelists highlighted the frustration with labor scarcity in an environment where consumer demands and […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Retail, Brand Leaders Share Influencer Marketing Tips

During a session at eTail West in Palm Springs, CA on Wednesday, a panel of retail leaders discussed strategies for building an influencer marketing program. Amber Reyes, senior manager, acquisition and media, Kopari Beauty; Jordan Roberson, director, digital marketing, Johnny Was; Catherine Seaton, vice president, marketing, Windsor Stores; and Meghan Shea, senior director, growth marketing, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Why Kurt Geiger Scrapped its In-House Marketing Solution for Wunderkind’s Guaranteed Outcomes

After nearly a decade of reliance by marketers, traditional retargeting tactics like third-party cookies are going away. But when one door closes, another opens. Marketers interested in better understanding customer needs and preferences in order to provide more personalized and compelling offers are turning to identity solutions as not just a replacement for third-party cookies, […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

How Google Built Its Dominant Web Advertising Business

Google made $31 billion running ads across the web last year, capitalizing on a tech footprint that touches nearly every web page on the internet. The company’s ad server and ad exchange are ubiquitous, behind-the-scenes technology that helps websites make money, and it all dates back to its 2007 acquisition of DoubleClick.  In this month’s […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Your Views: Mass Marketing Lives

I got several reactions to yesterday’s breaking news about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filing suit to block Kroger’s proposed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons. MNB fave Glen Terbeek wrote: So much mass marketing mentality.  We are past the 1960’s.   What about maximizing market performance of each local store and its shoppers through creating […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

FTC sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit to block Kroger’s proposed $25 billion merger with Albertsons Cos., contending that consumers will see higher prices and workers will see lower wages if the deal goes through. “This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  No Real Future

MNB reader Rich Heiland had a thought about out continuing conversation about CVS’s shortcomings: I consider drug stores a commodity. None of them do anything to distinguish themselves from one another in any significant way. I live in a downtown area. There is a Rite-Aid a block or so away. I go there. If there […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Exclusive: How Daniel’s Jewelers is Using Vision AI to Better Serve its Customers

In the more than 70 years since Joseph Sherwood bought a bankrupt jewelry store in Bell Gardens, Calif., much has changed in the world, and in retail. That post-WWII period in the Western U.S. was marked by the Dust Bowl Exodus, now a distant memory for most. Since then, the demographic makeup of California has […]
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  1. Acquisitions, Divestitures & Mergers

With Acquisition of Complex, NTWRK Plans to Create a ‘Next Gen Content and Shopping Experience’

Buzzfeed has sold youth culture media company Complex to livestream shopping platform NTWRK, which plans to use the acquisition to build a “next generation content and shopping experience.” The sale of Complex was part of a larger restructuring at Buzzfeed that also included the layoff of 16% of its workforce, as the company looks to […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Power of Clean Rooms As An Identity Solution with LiveRamp’s Daniella Harkins

The CPG Guys welcome Daniella Harkins from LiveRamp to discuss the clean room revolution in identity – for both company-company and internal data connectivity.  We specifically focus on LiveRamp’s recent acquisition of clean room specialist Habu and what that means for the future of identity-driven marketing.  LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

How to Overcome E-commerce Shipping & Delivery Challenges

The shipping and delivery phase of an e-commerce order is filled with opportunities or ‘touchpoints’ that you can capitalize on to convert one-time shoppers into repeat customers and spread positive word of mouth to influence their close ones, all while hoping that you don’t encounter any challenge that can infuriate your customers and get your […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Marc Lore Returns To Walmart With New Food Hall Concept

Marc Lore, who ran Walmart’s US e-commerce business from 2016-2021 after he sold it his Jet e-commerce startup for $3.3 billion, has opened a new food hall inside the retailer’s Quakertown, Pennsylvania, store. Inc. reports that Lore’s new food startup, Wonder, dropped its high-tech delivery model last year, opting instead to open what it calls […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Grocery Outlet Enters Southeast Via Acquisition of 40-Store Chain

Value supermarket retailer Grocery Outlet will acquire United Grocery Outlet, a 40-store chain with a similar business model, to gain a presence in the Southeast. Grocery Outlet, based in Emeryville, Calif., operates more than 460 stores in nine Western and Mid-Atlantic states. Financial details of the transaction, which is expected to close early in Q2, […]
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Kroger considers Disney+ perk for grocery delivery members

​US retail giant Kroger is reportedly in talks with the Walt Disney Company to offer the Disney+ streaming service as a benefit to paying members of its Kroger Boost grocery delivery programme. The post Kroger considers Disney+ perk for grocery delivery members appeared first on Retail Insight Network.
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Sam’s Club Expands Store Rollout of AI-Powered Exit Tech

Walmart-owned Sam’s Club says it’s turning to artificial intelligence to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members’ purchases against their receipts when leaving the store, Sam’s Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the […]
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