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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Restaurant Private – Public Partnerships Work

So, how is your branding extending your brand invitation this fall? How involved are you within your local community?  If you are a restaurant owner today it has never been more important to be involved within you community including staying in touch with your local elected officials according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Holiday forecast: A strong start, lulls and a late surge

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — A majority of U.S. consumers planned to spend the same amount as last year on this year’s holiday shopping. Those who planned to spend less than last year outnumbered those who planned to spend more, according to a survey from The NPD Group, citing a consumer survey conducted last month. “The […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Digital Experience Gaps Put Revenue On the Line 

 A whopping 81% of consumers plan to maintain or increase their digital usage, even as COVID-19 restrictions lift, according to a survey from FullStory. Is your business prepared to deliver an easy, friction-free experience?   During this episode of Retail Remix, Kirsten Newbold-Knipp, CMO of FullStory, and Elizabeth Simmer, Head of Onboarding & Professional Services, sit […]
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  1. Corporate Finance

5 Ways To Maximize Retail Business Financing

Have you ever thought of starting a retail business or are you currently running one? Operating a retail business is both rewarding and challenging. While owning your retail company presents plenty of room for growth and success, you’ll also face some problems or setbacks. One of the biggest challenges that you’ll face is related to […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

12 New Ecommerce Books for Fall 2021

Here’s a batch of new ecommerce books for your fall reading list. There are titles on branding, social media marketing, personalized customer experience, entrepreneurship, and the post-pandemic workplace. I compiled this list using Amazon. From Amazon’s “Books” category, I selected “Business & Money.” From there I chose the “Processes & Infrastructure” sub-category and selected “E-commerce.” […]
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  1. Department & Category

FMI: Retailers face increasingly complex business cycle

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Food Industry Association (FMI) is out with a report that examines how traditional grocery business cycles are being upended by pandemic-fueled changes in consumer behaviors. “The Food Industry Speaks 2021” tells the story of the food retail industry’s resilience and transformation in 2020, and identifies how the landscape continues to shift, […]
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  1. WitsNotes

QuickWit Weekly (9/20): WitsNotes Vol. 3 & Last Week’s Top Retail News

Loyalty takes center-stage with WitsNotes Volume 3:  Title: The Tipping Point of Loyalty (2021) Author: Upside Topic(s): Loyalty, Retail Length: 66 pages RetailWit Summary: 2 pages The Summary: The value of a loyal customer has increased—for retailers, the top loyal customers are worth up to 27x of revenue versus your non-loyals. And, shoppers are less […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

CVS puts help wanted signs out for 25K workers

CVS Health is looking to hire 25,000 clinical and retail workers to help it meet the growing demand for COVID-19 vaccinations and tests as well as an expected increase in flu cases during the fall and winter months. “Every flu season we need additional team members, but this year, we’re looking for even more,” said […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Roku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features

Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products in a race to capture consumers’ attention before the holiday shopping season. Its updates include a new Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ — the latter […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Will Supportive Spending Impact Ecommerce?

The pandemic changed how shoppers think about life generally and the products they use specifically, according to reports from Google, Accenture, and others. This includes picking brands and products for ethical reasons instead of economic ones. The post Will Supportive Spending Impact Ecommerce? appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Video Forum: Wendy Liebmann, WSL Strategic Retail

Wendy Liebmann has devoted her career to charting the changing wants and needs of consumers and analyzing what that evolution means for the retail and CPG sectors. In this week’s Video Forum, Liebmann, chief executive officer and chief shopper at WSL Strategic Retail, talks about mass market retailers’ performance during the COVID pandemic, ongoing industrywide […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Future of Shopping – Insights From Mikaela Jaconelli

Raydiant’s new series, the Future of Shopping, interviews experts and thought leaders with a goal of better understanding what organizations can do to prepare themselves for what lies ahead.  The following is an interview we recently had with Mikaela Jaconelli, Director of Client Success at Tipser. How has consumer shopping behavior evolved over the past […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

The Future of Shopping – Insights From Maria Vasserman

Raydiant’s new series, the Future of Shopping, interviews experts and thought leaders with a goal of better understanding what organizations can do to prepare themselves for what lies ahead.  The following is an interview we recently had with Maria Vasserman, Marketing Communications Specialist, MAROPOST. How has consumer shopping behavior evolved over the past 5 years? […]
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  1. CPG & FMCG

Retail Media Process Management with WNS’s Seema Kashyap & Sinan Gurman

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Sinan Gurman – SVP of data & analytics, and Seema Kashyap – Director and practice leader of Marketing Analytics at WNU at WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. WNS combines deep industry knowledge with technology, analytics and […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Future of Shopping – Insights From Taylor Ryan

Raydiant’s new series, the Future of Shopping, interviews experts and thought leaders with a goal of better understanding what organizations can do to prepare themselves for what lies ahead.  The following is an interview we recently had with Taylor Ryan, CEO of Klint Marketing. How has consumer shopping behavior evolved over the past 5 years? […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Vietnam factory shutdowns have retailers looking for other suppliers

Retailers are having difficulty receiving goods as factories in Vietnam have suffered prolonged shutdowns due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Some have begun looking outside the nation for suppliers while some are waiting it out, expecting, as Lululemon does, that a reopening will begin soon.
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  1. Technology & Innovation

QVALON sponsors overall winner category at RTIH Innovation Awards

We’re pleased to announce QVALON as sponsor of the Overall Winner category at our 2021 retail technology awards. QVALON, which is also sponsoring the Most Innovative UK retailer and Most Innovative Global Retailer categories, is a cloud-based mobile solution designed to manage, monitor, and maximise retail operations. The system ensures a uniform execution of operational […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Future of Shopping – Insights From Katie-Jay Simmons

Raydiant’s new series, the Future of Shopping, interviews experts and thought leaders with a goal of better understanding what organizations can do to prepare themselves for what lies ahead.  The following is an interview we recently had with Katie-Jay Simmons, E-commerce Specialist, Fit Small Business. How has consumer shopping behavior evolved over the past 5 […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Pandemic brought grocers higher sales and net profits

FMI’s “The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2021” report found that the average grocery retailer posted a 15.8 percent increase in same-store sales in 2020 but also found cost increases tied to the pandemic. Net profit grew to an average of three percent, up from one percent in 2019.
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Retail sales fall in August, but still up on pre-pandemic levels, says ONS

British retail sales fell by 0.9% in August compared with July, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Food store sales fell even further, at 1.2%, which the ONS attributed partly to the easing of hospitality restrictions and people increasing spending in restaurants and bars. The total retail sales figures were […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Labor shortage forces Harris Teeter to cut store hours

Harris Teeter announced that it is temporarily cutting back store hours until further notice as the grocery chain deals with a labor shortage that is affecting businesses nationwide. The Kroger-owned chain has offered bonuses and temporary pay increases during the pandemic in an effort to recruit and retain retail associates working on the front line.
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QuickWit Weekly (9/20): WitsNotes Vol. 3 & Last Week’s Top Retail News

Loyalty takes center-stage with WitsNotes Volume 3:  Title: The Tipping Point of Loyalty (2021) Author: Upside Topic(s): Loyalty, Retail Length: 66 pages RetailWit Summary: 2 pages The Summary: The value of a loyal customer has increased—for retailers, the top loyal customers are worth up to 27x of revenue versus your non-loyals. And, shoppers are less […]
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