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  1. Department: Food

Kwik Trip Growth with a Focus on Hot Spot Food

  Consumers want grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food with full flavor, fresh, and fast according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Johnson stated, “In every sector of retail foodservice it is grocerant Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat that consumers are migrating too according to Nielsenand the team at Foodservice […]
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  1. Retailer Media

The Value of Retail Media Networks

What do Mall of America, Kroger, Sam’s Club, Walmart, CVS, and Best Buy have in common? They’ve all added the fastest-growing ad-supported retail media channel to their marketing toolkit. Retail media networks (RMNs) — retailer-owned digital platforms that sell ad space — are expected to double over the next four years. How fast is the RMN […]
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  1. Retailer Media

Why Retail Media and CTV Are Set to Have a Very Happy 2023

For an advertiser looking for real-time conversions on its ads, retail media is nothing short of magic. Retail media ads connect impressions directly to purchases. You can see exactly how many people saw your ad and then completed a transaction. No other ad medium comes close. With retail media, brands can reach tens of millions […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Talk data to me, Hotwire Global: analytics, innovation, and driving audience advocacy.  

In this series, Talk data to me, we chat with leaders from the world’s biggest brands and agencies about how they’re using insights to drive their business strategies. We caught up with Matt Oakley, global head of data and analytics at Hotwire Global, to get his thoughts on using data to define business strategy, the […]
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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. Shopper & Customer

Candy sales surge despite economic headwinds

AVENTURA, Fla. – The confectionery category posted dollar sales in 2022 that increased 11.1% compared with 2021 sales and 22.1% compared with 2019 sales, according to the fourth annual State of Treating report published by the National Confectioners Association. The total confectionery category reached $42.6 billion in sales, driven by inflation that reached a 40-year […]
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  1. Data & Insights

IRI and The NPD Group Rebrand as Circana

CHICAGO – Information Resources Inc. and The NPD Group merged in August 2022, and today the combined company has been rebranded under the name Circana. “We are proud to begin this new chapter together as Circana, a name that conveys our 360-degree, full-circle understanding of the consumer and market, and our unique ability to bring […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Sales of Chocolate and Candy Remain Strong Amid Inflation and Supply Chain Pressures

Consumers turn to chocolate and candy as an affordable treat Aventura, Florida – In 2022, confectionery category dollar sales grew 11.1% over 2021, and 22.1% over 2019 as consumers view chocolate and candy as a fun part of life (81%) and as an affordable treat (74%) according to the fourth annual State of Treating report […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite

Microsoft today introduced what it’s calling the “next generation” of AI product updates across its business apps portfolio. They touch on both Power Platform, Microsoft’s set of low-code tools for building apps and workflows, and Dynamics 365, the company’s suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. In an interview with […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Shifting Ecommerce and Retail Media Trends — And How Brands Can Prepare for What’s Next DSI

“The shopper is starting their shopping journey online on more than 60% of occasions now. Even if they’re not buying the product online, they’re starting the journey there. We have to be thinking digital-first in everything — in the assortment strategy, in the product development cycle, supply chain, media — all of these things.” — […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

One Platform TV Advertising with NBCUniversal’s Bob Perry

The CPG Guys speak with Bob Perry, Director of Business Development at NBC Universal, which owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Milk Brands Are Responding to Changing Consumer Values

Sustainability Influences Traditional and Plant-based Milk Categories Go to any coffee shop today and you can hear the barista rattle off a wide range of milk options—many of them plant-based. Milk, for many consumers, is not the same drink they had when they were growing up. Even a glass of cow’s milk isn’t what it […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

One Platform TV Advertising with NBC Universal’s Bob Perry

The CPG Guys speak with Bob Perry, Director of Business Development at NBC Universal, which owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium […]
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  1. Data & Insights

What a Technology-First Approach Really Means for Your Patient Support Program

Today’s guest post comes from Jan Nielsen, Patient Solutions Division President at AssistRx. Jan discusses digital hubs and the benefits they offer both patients on specialty therapies and their health care providers. To learn more, download AssistRx’s free 61-page eBook: Specialty Drug Patient Support Programs: 2022 Progress Report. Read on for Jan’s insights. Read more […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Retailers Are Finally Bringing Digital Shopping Into Physical Stores

During the early 2000s, while the retail industry was getting battered by e-commerce, grocery stores were seemingly safe. Twenty years — and a pandemic — later, much has changed; e-commerce and delivery services have transformed grocery retail. Today, when consumers visit a store, they enter with much higher expectations. A convenient and smooth, seamless shopping […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Sam’s Club To Offer Clients Retargeted Display Ads

Walmart-owned Sam’s Club announced that “real-time, intelligently retargeted display advertising is now available across tens of thousands of sites on the open web through Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP). This feature — provided in partnership with The Trade Desk and LiveRamp (RAMP) — leverages first-party member data, advertiser data and AI-powered, real-time behavioral insights […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

How Robotic Inventory Scanners Are Easing Retail Pain Points

Despite sales performing solidly, the retail industry continues to keep up a heady pace of evolution. Retailers are constantly seeking out new technologies to optimize and future-proof their operations as well as to improve efficiency. One area where technology is making a significant impact is in the realm of inventory management. One such technology that […]
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  1. Retailer Media

H-E-B is No. 1 in dunnhumby Index

CHICAGO –– H-E-B has regained the leadership position in the sixth annual dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), an examination of the U.S. grocery market by data science firm dunnhumby. Costco Wholesale holds the second position in this year’s index, followed by Amazon. Wegmans held the fourth position for the third consecutive year. Rounding out the […]
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  1. Retailer Media

Dunnhumby releases new tool to forecast impact of price and promos on sales

Customer data science firm Dunnhumby has released a new machine learning-powered tool, enabling retailers to predict a year’s worth of sales based on various pricing and promotion scenarios. The company… The post Dunnhumby releases new tool to forecast impact of price and promos on sales appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The […]
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  1. Retailer Media

Dunnhumby launches tool to help CPGs maintain market share during inflationary climate

Consumer insights specialist Dunnhumby has today announced the UK launch of a new tool capable of forecasting the sales impact of changes to a product’s pricing and promotional strategy. Revenue Growth Planner, available now in the UK, uses Dunnhumby’s Customer Demand Model to simulate the likely effects of any modifications to either a product’s base […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash Partners with ALDI To Expand On-Demand Grocery Delivery

DoorDash Partners with ALDI To Expand On-Demand Grocery Delivery Propelling DoorDash’s growth in grocery forward, the new partnership brings same-day delivery to more than 2,100 ALDI locations nationwide SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 23, 2023 – DoorDash (NYSE: DASH), the local commerce platform, and ALDI, the grocery price leader for six years running*, today announced […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Build, Grow and Scale Your Way to E-Commerce Experience Success

Many consumer products start from niche beginnings. Why? Appealing to small audience groups makes marketing simpler and more cost effective initially. However, sooner or later, most successful brands want to broaden their appeal. In today’s market ecosystem, that usually translates to expanding their e-commerce experience and footprint. This is where using data and following a […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Thirsty Time to Go to a C-store, Grocery Store, or Restaurant

  Do you know why your consumers comes into your store?  You should ask yourself what else can I sell them?  However, if you don’t know why they are there in the first place you won’t know what else you could sell them according to Steven JohnsonGrocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. How […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Brands Wait For The Promise Of Big Data

Marketers are swimming in data. The amount of data available to marketers is exploding and the analysis of very large data sets, popularly referred to as “big data,” has been touted as the next wave of productive marketing practice. Such data range from records of transactions to the text of reviews and customer service interactions, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How Leveraging Subscriptions Could Help Your Company Maintain its Edge

Price inflation, supply chain disruptions, evolving consumer preferences, and an endemic “new normal” has thrust retailers into a bevy of change. With the economic winds of a recession looming (or rather, here — just depends on who you ask!), how can retailers maintain an edge? A report from McKinsey suggests that successful businesses are looking […]
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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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Dollar General investing $100M in its stores, with a focus on boosting labor

Dive Brief: Dollar General posted net sales of $10.2 billion during the fourth quarter of 2022, a figure that was up 17.9% compared with the same period in 2021, the discount retail chain reported Thursday. Comparable-store sales rose 5.7% year-over-year in Q4, while operating profit was up 17.1%. CEO Jeff Owen said Dollar General intends to invest about […]
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