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Can Amazon’s Grocery Business Deliver on Its Plate?

  Amazon has never been shy about taking a big bite of an industry, but grocery has proved harder to digest than e-commerce or cloud computing. Nearly two decades after launching its first online food efforts, Amazon is still juggling multiple banners—Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, and its core grocery e-commerce unit—without having baked […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Cognitive Dissonance In the City-Owned-Grocery-Store-Delusion Space

The Atlantic  has an excellent piece in which it points out some basic inconsistencies in the proposals being put forth by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani – a self-described Democratic socialist – to open “five city-owned stores that will be ‘focused on keeping prices low’ rather than making a profit – what he […]
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Inflation Perception & Reality:  Never The Twain Shall Meet

A new Consumer Trends Tracker (CTT) is out from dunnhumby, which endeavors on a quarterly basis to define and contextualize “shopper needs, perceptions, and behavior” – and this edition uncovers a remarkable piece of dissonance between reality and perception. In April, CTT says, US consumers estimated food-at-home inflation to be 20.6 percent, while families with […]
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Starring Wolt, Simbe, StrongPoint, and Pricer: RTIH rounds up its most read articles from last week

Check out the articles on this here website that caught your fancy last week, including H&M, Amazon, Morrisons, Walmart, Trust Retail, East of England Co-op, SuperValu, Rohlik Group, and Roblox. Amazon gears up to leverage ‘must have’ humanoid robots for package deliveries with Rivian electric vans Amazon has built an built an obstacle course inside […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The power of local: 3 reasons CPG marketers are turning to mid-market retail media

​[[{“value”:” The big dogs of retail media would like more money from CPG marketers, please.   Take Walmart, for instance. In April, Adweek reported that the retail giant is asking some brands “to increase their annual retail media spend by approximately 25% compared with the year before.” This is not exactly surprising. As part of their […]
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  1. Retail Ecosystem

Shoptalk 2025 Recap With The CPGGUYS

The CPGGUYS cover the recently concluded Shoptalk spring 2025 from Las Vegas. What a show! Besides our opening networking reception, we had a chance to meet up with many brands, retailers and of course all our sponsors.  This episode is collectively sponsored by Epsilon, Dunnhumby, Osmos,  Apply to join the Cornell retail media program https://ecornell.cornell.edu/certificates/marketing/retail-media-strategy/ […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Ocula announces £4 million Series A funding round alongside new AI powered e-commerce solution

UK-based AI driven e-commerce solution provider, Ocula Technologies, has closed a £4 million Series A funding round. The includes investments from NYO Capital and Jose Luis Gomes, and follows a £3.25 million led by Praetura Ventures in August. Gomes brings a wealth of experience from his role leading Google Cloud’s North American Retail & Consumer […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Retail Technology Startup Stories Interview: Ross Finman, Founder and CEO at Augmodo

RTIH gets the lowdown on Augmodo, which has developed a real-time inventory and task tracker using wearable SmartBadges to create live 3D store maps. The startup recently raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau, with participation from Dunnhumby Ventures, NewFare Partners and Simple Food Ventures. RTIH: Tell us about yourself and Augmodo […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Family Dollar Selects AI-Powered Solution to Enhance Category Management

Family Dollar will use solutions from Dunnhumby to make merchandising and category management more customer-centric across its store network. Dunnhumby will use customer data science as well as consumer-led insights and collaboration to help Family Dollar make merchandising decisions that drive greater engagement with the retailer’s 66 million shoppers. The Family Dollar platform will be […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Ikea announces 100th Tesco Click and Collect point and preps roll-out of 100 more within next year

Ikea has opened its 100th mobile pick-up point, following a UK wide roll-out. The service is free of charge for orders over £100 and costs £5 for orders below that amount. The expansion comes as the retailer reports that almost 40% of its total sales are made through online purchases. Customers can use the offering […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Tesco taps new dunnhumby AI powered Assortment solution for localised ranging in retailer’s stores

dunnhumby is introducing new AI powered assortment technology. This is being used by Tesco to improve customer shopping experiences through smarter product selection. It enables retailers to: Create localised ranges, down to store specific level Develop space aware ranges and planograms Implement a more efficient, end-to-end process “In today’s dynamic retail landscape, keeping up with […]
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  1. Data & Insights

dunnhumby and Placer.ai strike partnership enabling retailers to unlock unique door-to-purchase customer journey insights

By combining in-store and out-of-store customer journey insights, the partnership delivers retailers and CPGs with actionable strategies in today’s highly competitive environment.
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Seventh annual Retailer Preference Index (RPI) for U.S. Grocery

dunnhumby’s Retailer Preference Index (RPI) has been helping U.S. retailers and brands since 2017, by gathering insights from over 10,000 U.S. shoppers annually. The data collected helps us understand what matters most to customers when shopping at 60+ grocery retailers, and identify which retailers are well-positioned to thrive in normal and turbulent market conditions. The […]
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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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dunnhumby’s Sixth Annual Retailer Preference Index (RPI) for U.S. Grocery
THE GROCERS BEST ‘BUILT TO LAST’

H-E-B, Costco Best Navigate The 2020 – 2022 Pandemic Grocery Market Upheaval, Bumping Amazon From Its Top Ranking Customers emerged from 2020 – 2022 placing more importance than ever on finding the right balance of savings and quality while placing less importance on saving time. Pandemic surge in retailer digital capabilities and consumer digital adoption […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Cooler Screen Builds Visionary Leadership and Advisory Teams for Accelerated Growth

Accomplished executives will accelerate Cooler Screens' mission to transform the consumer experience and solidify its role as a strategic digital media platform for retail. 
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021
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  1. Retailer Media

Amazon, H-E-B, and Market Basket are the Top U.S. Grocery Retailers, dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index Finds

The top retailers consolidated their power in 2021 while a pack of grocers including Amazon Fresh, Walmart Neighborhood, and Brookshire’s moved fast up the ranks
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QuickWit Weekly (10/11): WitsNotes Vol. 4 & Last Week’s Top Retail News

WitsNotes Volume 4 takes us to a new frontier of Marketing. Title: Re-invented Marketing: A Candid, Myth-busting Interview Author: Rishad Tobaccowala (The talk and his website)  Topic(s): Marketing Length: 1 hour RetailWit Summary: 5 minutes Summary Marketing is in a perilous spot—the cookie is crumbling, privacy will be a competitive advantage, CMO tenure is the […]
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Daily QuickWit 5.25 – Top Stories

Wakefern taps dunnhumby to sharpen merchandising. Wakefern has been making moves as of late, earlier this month, Wakefern expanded its use of CitrusAd’s retail media technology, they also expanded its data partnership with Catalina and last August extended it’s usage of Inmar’s Intelligence’s Retail Cloud. CNBC releases the ninth annual Disruptor 50 list, private companies […]
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Walmart adding RFID tech to fresh categories

​Dive Brief The retailer worked with Avery Dennison on developing the solution in an effort to minimize food waste and improve inventory management. Published Oct. 23, 2025 Workers can better track inventory and determine when to rotate or mark down products with RFID technology, according to Walmart. Courtesy of Walmart
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‘A cultural shift’: Dollar Tree’s CEO on tech, AI adoption

At Dollar Tree’s investor day this month, the discount retailer gave a peek into how it’s catching up with the times — and AI is playing a key role. If one thing is certain, CEO Mike Creedon told investors, it’s that Dollar Tree must evolve. “And we are, from a single price point model to […]
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New Amazon smart delivery glasses help drivers navigate routes and complete deliveries

Amazon has unveiled new smart glasses designed to assist drivers in navigating their routes and completing deliveries. The AI powered technology provides hands free navigation, package scanning, and hazard detection directly in drivers’ field of view, eliminating the need to look down at their smartphones while making deliveries. The glasses feature computer vision technology that […]
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