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Food-delivery startup Wonder Group gets $100 million investment from Nestle

​ ​ In this article NES.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Wonder Group has bought rights to make dishes from popular restaurants and celebrity chefs, such as Bobby Flay and José Andrés. It’s also developed high-tech kitchen equipment to speed up and simplify cooking. Wonder Group Food-delivery company Wonder Group has gotten a cash infusion […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

Hello Bello files for bankruptcy amid supply chain setbacks

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Unconditional Love Inc. — which does business as Hello Bello — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to facilitate being acquired by private equity firm Hildred Capital Management, according to a Monday press release. The stalking horse bid deal — valued […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart Adds Subscription Service for Everyday Essentials

Walmart is continuing its encroachment onto Amazon’s turf with the addition of a new subscription service for repeat purchases, similar to Amazon’s Subscribe and Save offering. But Walmart took the moment to also remind customers of other capabilities enabled in the Walmart app that they won’t find on Amazon (without using those words of course), […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart Adds Subscription Service for Everyday Essentials

Walmart is continuing its encroachment onto Amazon’s turf with the addition of a new subscription service for repeat purchases, similar to Amazon’s Subscribe and Save offering. But Walmart took the moment to also remind customers of other capabilities enabled in the Walmart app that they won’t find on Amazon (without using those words of course), […]
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  1. Merchandising

Amazon’s Reduced Packaging Plans Open Pandora’s Box

While Amazon.com’s impact on e-commerce is sizable, arguably one of the most impressive parts of the company has less to do with selling products and more about delivering them. In 2014, the company had a 0 percent logistics market share. As reported by Axios in 2020, just six years later, Amazon’s logistics arm overtook FedEx […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

CPG Innovation: 4 Types of Innovation and Why They Matter

The values-oriented consumer is at the heart of CPG innovation. Innovation is an inescapable term. It’s used to describe so many businesses, products, and technologies that the word has almost lost meaning. People often zero in on one form of innovation and that becomes the default definition in their mind. In truth, innovation is an […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Big Lots completes store leasebacks, takes ‘decisive actions’ to lower costs

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Big Lots’ core customers remained under economic pressure in Q2 with “limited capacity for higher-ticket discretionary purchases,” CEO Bruce Thorn said in a Tuesday earnings announcement and call. The retailer’s net loss widened to $249.8 million from $84.2 million last year. Net sales […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

First Quality meets consumer needs at ‘every age and stage’

GREAT NECK, N.Y. — As more consumers turn to retail pharmacies for a wide range of health and wellness needs, First Quality said it is delivering innovative solutions backed by health care experience. The company entered the health care industry more than 30 years ago with a focus on providing adult incontinence products to long-term […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Who Do You Antitrust?

We took note the other day of a Bloomberg story about how on Prime Day Amazon  was “dangling an ‘invite-only’ promotion designed to give customers a better shot at snagging the bargains they want.  Shoppers request an invite for discounted items they see on the site — 32% off an Acer Swift X laptop, for […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Subscribe & Save Generates Annual Savings of $1 Billion

Amazon said last week that its Subscribe & Save automatic replenishment program for shoppers “has passed more than $1 billion in savings to customers worldwide in the last 12 months.” Amazon said that “the program has tens of millions of global subscribers with hundreds of millions of subscriptions, which also saves customers time. That’s tens […]
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  1. Department: Food

Albertsons Cos. unveils new look for O Organics

BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons Cos. has updated the packaging of its O Organics brand, and is celebrating the private label line’s new look with a campaign designating April as Organic Breakfast Month and encouraging customers to share their favorite breakfast routine on social media using #WakeUpOrganic. Albertsons aims to position O Organics as the go-to […]
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  1. Merchandising

A Game Plan for a More Profitable Omnichannel Retail P&L DSI

“There’s a multi-front competition going on from so many more angles than there ever was before, and that obviously puts a lot of pressure on the retailers’ top line.”— Chris Perry, Chief Learning Officer and Co-Founder at firstmovr Similar to brands, it’s getting more challenging for retailers to eke out a significant profit in today’s […]
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  1. Department: Food

Albertsons unveils new look for O Organics Brand

BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons Cos. has updated the packaging of its O Organics brand, and is celebrating the private label line’s new look with a campaign designating April as Organic Breakfast Month and encouraging customers to share their favorite breakfast routine on social media using #WakeUpOrganic. Albertsons aims to position O Organics as the go-to […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The New CPG Playbook: Embrace Product, Marketing and Experience Innovation to Drive Growth

The digital surge during COVID-19 accelerated the introduction of direct-to-consumer CPG brands selling online, but three interlocking trends could hobble their continued growth. One is simple competition: more brands and more products competing for consumer wallet and mind share. The second is inflation, which is causing consumers to adjust their purchasing patterns. In the U.S. […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Inflation is cooling, but prices on many items are going to stay high for months

Inflation may be cooling. But, for most Americans, the price of a cup of coffee or a bag of groceries hasn’t budged. In the months ahead, the big question is whether consumers will start to feel relief, too. Over the past few months, many of the key factors that fueled a four-decade high in inflation […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Wakefern seeking diverse private label suppliers

KEASBEY, N.J. – Wakefern Food Corp. today announced its Own Brands Supplier Diversity Summit. The latest summit is an open call to diverse private label manufacturers to source exciting new and trending food and beverage products for potential addition to Wakefern’s award-winning Bowl & Basket and Wholesome Pantry store brands portfolio. Certified Diverse private label […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How Retailers Are Adding Value and Driving Loyalty Through Digital Touchpoints

While many point to the pandemic as the catalyst responsible for changing today’s retail customers, in reality, the “retail customer” has been evolving for some time. Over the past several decades, consumers’ lives have grown busier and more complex while also being offered more choices spanning retail and digital, and shoppers have come to expect […]
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  1. Department: Food

U.S. Inflation: How Much Have Prices Increased?

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  1. Channel: Delivery

Marc Lore’s Food Delivery Startup Lays Off Workers, Recalibrates

The Information reports that “Wonder, a mobile kitchen and food-delivery startup led by Jet.com founder Marc Lore, has laid off 7% of its workforce, a company spokesperson said, as it attempts to overhaul its business … It’s a dramatic stumble for Wonder, which had been riding high on Lore’s previous e-commerce successes and the tail […]
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  1. Department & Category

Baby Food Maker Market size to grow by USD 403.25 Mn; Market research insights highlight technological innovations and portfolio extensions as a key driver

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — According to the research report “Baby Food Maker Market by Application and Distribution Channel – Forecast and Analysis – 2022-2026”, the market will witness a YOY growth of 7.29% in 2022 at a CAGR of 8.29% during the forecast period. The report…
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Marc Lore chews the fat about reinventing at-home dining at Disrupt

There’s no denying it — when it comes to e-commerce, Marc Lore delivers. The serial entrepreneur sold Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Soap.com and others, to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million. He launched Jet.com in 2015 and sold it to Walmart in 2016 for a tidy $3 billion. Now, Lore delivers a new […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

First Quality launches Earth + Eden Sensitive diapers

GREAT NECK, N.Y. — First Quality is launching its Earth + Eden Sensitive diapers with a renewed focus on eco-conscious design made safe and luxurious, the company said. Earth + Eden is a wellness brand that aims to help empower people who want to live clean, healthy lifestyles without sacrificing product performance, the company said. […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Prime Day 2022 reaches historic milestone

SEATTLE — Amazon Prime members purchased more than 300 million items worldwide during Prime Day 2022, according to the company, which said this year’s event was the biggest Prime Day event ever. Amazon said Thursday that Prime members saved over $1.7 billion, more than during any previous Prime Day event. The company said the event […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

How to Accelerate Your E-Commerce Strategy by Years and Get on the Path to Profitability

In e-commerce, speed and order accuracy are the key drivers of customer satisfaction. A customer who expects diapers to be delivered in half an hour may abandon a retailer forever after one messy delay or mistake. Brick-and-mortar retailers that are building out their e-commerce operations are feeling pressure on many fronts. Q-commerce companies, which promise 15- […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Retail Media Networks and Loyalty Programs — Better Together

Retailers are embracing new sources of revenue outside of the traditional retail model — from rethinking how to use their physical stores to monetizing their delivery networks to utilizing their customer data for revenue streams such as advertising. Large retailers such as Target, Kroger, and Walmart are cashing in on the shift away from third-party […]
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  1. Department & Category

Food Inflation So Now What’s for Dinner

  At the intersection of What’s for Dinner and food inflation the consumers is at a crossroad according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. The question become rather than What’s for dinner; where can I buy dinner for less? Once again inflation for at the grocery store aka food at […]
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  1. Department: Food

Marc Lore’s Food Delivery Startup Expands, Is Valued At $3.5 Billion

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that Wonder Group, a food delivery startup led by Marc Lore, has just completed a new $350 million funding round that values the company at about $3.5 billion at a time when it is planning its expansion beyond the cluster of New Jersey suburbs – totaling 132,000 households […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

We’re Bringing the Convenience of Drone Delivery to 4 Million U.S. Households in Partnership with DroneUp

We continue to expand our delivery operations to help customers get the items they need when they need them, and it’s been an exciting journey. From Express delivery, where customers can have items delivered to their doorsteps in as little as two hours, to InHome, where they can get those orders placed right into their […]
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NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has updated a report that had attributed “nearly half” of 2021’s $94.5 billion in retail shrink to organized retail crime, saying the data point was part of two-year-old testimony to a U.S. Senate committee by Ben Dugan, former President of the Organized Retail Crime Resource Center. The NRF report was […]
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