Holiday & Events

Articles about holidays and special retail events.

  1. Trends & External Forces
At a time when the commercial real estate landscape is evolving with unprecedented speed, changes in big-box retail are an important storyline. Appreciating how and why big-box concepts have thrived in a post-pandemic environment, and understanding the logic behind decision making with regard to everything from store layouts to merchandising, is an important first step […]
  1. Holiday & Events
UK consumers are set to spend £1.9bn this Easter, a 4.0% increase on 2023. Spend on Easter food and drink is expected to drive the uplift as consumers plan to splash out, feeling less restricted by financial pressures amid the cost-of-living crisis, according to a… This story continues at Easter spending expected to rise to […]
  1. Data & Insights
Online retail and e-commerce providers are struggling to meet shopper expectations amidst ongoing inflation, higher costs and lingering supply chain woes. A new independent survey that queried nearly 2,000 global shoppers found that 88 percent of U.S. and 79 percent of U.K. shoppers said that online retailers delivered poor experiences at least once in the […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
Snappy Shopper, the e-commerce platform connecting local retailers with customers, has announced an Easter competition partnership with Mondelez. The brand partnership campaign, fully funded by Mondelez, offers customers the chance to win £1,000 Snappy credit by purchasing selected Mondelez products via the Snappy Shopper app.… This story continues at Snappy Shopper and Mondelez team up […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Take-home grocery sales rose by 4.6% over the four weeks to 17 March, with an early Easter boosting sales of seasonal treats in the first three months of 2024 by £88m compared with the same period last year, according to marketing data and analytics company… This story continues at Early Easter boosts March sales Or […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
As the nation gears up to hit the road over the Easter weekend, BP has shared how people are expected to shop during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. BP anticipates sales of over two million chocolate eggs as customers stock up… This story continues at BP predicts record sales of over […]
  1. Holiday & Events
WASHINGTON — Consumers are expected to spend about $22.4 billion on food, clothing and gifts to celebrate Easter, which falls on March 31 this year. That’s according to the annual survey conducted by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. The total figure is the second highest in the survey’s history, after last […]
  1. International
Easter egg sales have plummeted by 12%, as inflation and HFSS legislation melts confectionery performance across four major British supermarkets, new data shows. Analysis by retail data experts Reapp reveals chocolate eggs have dropped by over 600,000 units sold in the buildup to Easter, equating… This story continues at Easter Egg sales slide amid inflation […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Some popular Easter eggs will cost 50% more this year according to research by Which?. The consumer group also reported ‘shrinkflation’ with some Easter eggs having shrunk in size but not price. It found that a Maltesers Truffles Luxury Easter Egg (286g) is up from… This story continues at Easter egg shoppers face price rises […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Last-minute top-up shops are a staple for convenience stores, and this is particularly so before annual festivals such as Easter. Some shoppers come in for Easter eggs as late as Sunday morning, although the longer run-up to the holiday is notable for just how much… This story continues at Late show In focus: Easter top-up […]
  1. Department & Category
  Rekindling our favorite college memories, it seems every Spring the NCAA March Madness brings the country together elevating college basketball to the top-of-mind sport creating almost more social media buzz than a door blowing out/off an airplane. Ok that’s a bit much but there is quite a bit of truth to it.   According to […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Retail Technology Show 2024 is fast approaching. The event, set to take place on 24th-25th April, at Olympia London, will bring together retail trailblazers, uniting the region’s foremost retailers and tech innovators. RTIH will have a major presence at RTS 2024. Feel free to drop by our stand (5C02) where you will be able to […]
  1. Media & Marketing
In advance of the upfronts and Summer Olympics, NBCU rolled out new innovations, including several AI-powered capabilities, at its One24 event. NBCUniversal today (March 20) continued its efforts to demonstrate how it plans to bring TV in line with digitally powered ad channels at One24, the latest edition of its annual technology and developer conference. […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
WASHINGTON – The National Retail Federation today forecast that retail sales will increase in 2024 between 2.5% and 3.5% to between $5.23 trillion and $5.28 trillion. The announcement was made during NRF’s fourth annual State of Retail & the Consumer virtual discussion on the health of American consumers and the retail industry. “The resiliency of consumers continues […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
After a trial period across One Stop stores last year, the convenience retailer has officially selected Snappy Shopper as one of its home delivery partners. With over 1,000 convenience stores nationwide, One Stop will initially introduce Snappy Shopper’s quick commerce services to 250 of these locations, starting from June.   Mike Callachan, CEO at Snappy […]
  1. Data & Insights
Webinar CTV Strategies: What media buyers need to know in 2024 April 3, 2024 12:30 – 1:15pm EDT Register now As the media industry races towards complete digitization, CTV stands out as a prominent channel marked by untapped potential Between the rising usage of CTV as digital identifiers disappear and its ability to offer advertisers […]
  1. Media & Marketing
  Regular readers of this blog know that Dickey’s marketing team is doing a very good job edifying brand value via grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Here are six reasons why restaurants should tie marketing promotions to the NCAA Basketball […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
According to McKinsey, more than half of business-to-consumer customers engage with three to five channels each time they make a purchase or resolve a request. The evolution of technology has transformed these channels into explicit, interconnected conduits directly impacting customer satisfaction. In today’s retail landscape, it’s no longer sufficient to merely acknowledge this fact; retailers […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Kohl’s has increased its assortment of home décor items by 40%, adding new categories and elevating its mainstay bedding and bath products with more modern aesthetics and frequent pattern and color injections. The retailer also is positioning itself as a seasonal décor destination, promising 60% newness in home and holiday décor seasonally as a strategy […]
  1. Stores & Formats
2024 looks to be another year of growth for retail, with more than a dozen retail chains already announcing plans for expansion this year. I always love to see headlines about retailers opening new stores. It shows that retail businesses are healthy enough to invest in expanding their physical store footprints. And as a long […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Total TV usage dipped in February; streaming usage climbed to 37.7% of TV In seasonal fashion, TV usage declined in February following the end of the NFL playoffs. While Super Bowl LVIII was a standout that attracted 123.7 million viewers, the 6.4% dip in viewership for the month was considerably larger than it was in […]
  1. Department: Food
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who describe themselves as meat eaters (80%) and the number of households that purchase meat (98%) remain steady from 2023, while the number seeking to decrease meat consumption has fallen by 20% since 2020, according to the 19th annual Power of Meat report released on Monday by the Meat […]
  1. Media & Marketing
  At the intersection of new customer acquisition, emerging food trends, and consumer migration brand messaging plays an increasingly important role according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   Johnson stated, Brand marketing messaging is crucial for several reasons. It acts as the voice of your brand, shaping how customers […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
While retailers typically put a significant emphasis on post-holiday sales, they didn’t resonate with shoppers after the 2023 holiday season. During the week after Christmas, year-over-year sales were down across the board, with only computer software sales seeing an increase from 2022. Department stores, cosmetics stores and clothing stores saw some of the largest declines, […]
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Shoptalk always brings the best and brightest minds of the industry together for four days packed with insights, networking opportunities, trend predictions and so much more. This year, the spring event in Las Vegas was no exception. But like many other major industry events, Shoptalk can feel like you’re sprinting a marathon — there’s so […]
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Amid faltering demand for shoes and clothing as well as slipping digital sales, Nike Inc. said last week that it will bank a lot more on the thing it has spent the past several years turning away from: other retailers. Executives discussed those plans on Nike’s earnings call, during which it announced that while fiscal […]

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