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  1. Shopper & Customer

Consumer retail market set for repositioning

CHICAGO – Consumer demand is declining across nearly every segment of the U.S. discretionary general merchandise and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, even as elevated prices recede from peak levels. Don Unser and Marshal Cohen of Circana (formerly IRI and The NPD Group) look below the surface of current retail performance in this $2.9 trillion […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Drug Channels News Roundup, March 2023: My $0.02 on Insulin Price Cuts, AbbVie vs. AFPs, Optum Expands, ASAP340B, and Hooray for Pharmacists

Spring is here in sunny downtown Philadelphia, worldwide headquarters of Drug Channels. The vernal equinox has brought us an unexpected bounty of noteworthy news: Thoughts on the recent insulin price cuts by Lilly, Novo, and Sanofi AbbVie gets tougher on alternative funding programs Optum quietly adds a new drug channel role A novel partnership emerges […]
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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. Channel: Mass

Walmart leads NRF’s list of top global retailers

WASHINGTON – Walmart maintains its No. 1 position on the National Retail Federation’s latest list of the Top 50 Global Retailers. Conducted by Kantar, the 2023 list ranks the world’s most impactful retailers based on their operations at the beginning of 2022. Kantar’s ranking system gives points to retailers according to their domestic and international […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

A majority of consumers plan to do their St. Patrick’s Day shopping in-person

Numerator, a data and tech company serving the market research space, has published new findings on St. Patrick’s Day consumer behavior, sourced from verified purchase data and a sentiment survey of nearly 1,600 consumers who plan to celebrate the ho
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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. 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. Shopper & Customer

Personalization that Consumers Expect Post-Pandemic

Today’s retail environment is challenging — whether it is price pressure from discounters, market disruption from online players, increased price transparency for shoppers or changing macroeconomics. To top that off, differentiation approaches in retail that have been around for ages, such as unique inventory or strategic pricing and promotions, can now be easily imitated. That […]
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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. Shopper & Customer

Personalization that Consumers Expect Post-Pandemic

Today’s retail environment is challenging — whether it is price pressure from discounters, market disruption from online players, increased price transparency for shoppers or changing macroeconomics. To top that off, differentiation approaches in retail that have been around for ages, such as unique inventory or strategic pricing and promotions, can now be easily imitated. That […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Fueling Frictionless Retail With Near Store Solutions

Low-and-no contact retail exploded in response to the demands of COVID-19, yet these service delivery methods remain popular. Near-store, curbside solutions leverage modern, fast data networks to help to minimize that contact. When Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone in 2007, few could have  anticipated just how much smartphones and their adoption would transform what […]
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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. Media & Marketing

Purpose: No Longer A Brand Differentiator

Every required element of a business is a cost of doing business, and thus subject to cost pressures. Organizationally, finance may not be in charge, but finance gets a big say. As purpose has become mainstream, it has also become a cost of doing business—to conform to the specs of partners and suppliers and to […]
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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. Technology & Innovation

Composability and usage-based pricing go hand-in-hand for martech applications

Martech software companies — and SaaS vendors in general — have several different ways they can charge for their products. The classic SaaS subscription models have used seat-based and tier-based pricing. As a buyer, you pay for the number of people (“seats”) using the product in your company. Or, you pay for bundles of functionality […]
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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. Shopper & Customer

Hot Shots In focus: Hot beverages

Of the 28 million households that make up the UK consumer market, more than 24 million buy into the coffee category, according to sector analyst Kantar, making it a must-stock. But the market is no longer restricted to jars of instant. “The demand for retailers to stock a diverse range across the category has never […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Maximizing Unified Commerce While Minimizing Friction

Achieving repeat business in retail — a primary sign of success — means identifying and overcoming challenges in an ever-changing landscape. Today’s consumers expect a high-quality buying experience whether they’re shopping online or in a brick-and-mortar store, and retailers are adjusting to ensure a consistently great experience across all channels. It’s all about the experience. Customer […]
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  4. Technology & Innovation

Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value

Supermarket giant Tesco came under fire following the announcement that it will be reducing the value of Clubcard reward vouchers from June 2023. The reduction will come into force after… The post Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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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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  1. CPG: Food
  2. Channel: Grocery
  3. Department & Category
  4. Department: Beverage
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  6. Corporate Strategy
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  10. Merchandising
  11. Owned Brands (Private Label)

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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