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Articles on out of home marketing (both OOH and DOOH)

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1 in 4 parcels processed out of hours in 2025, Collect+ data shows

More than 130 million parcels were picked-up or dropped off at Collect+ locations over the last year, and over a quarter (27%) of these were outside of office working hours, reveals new data from Collect+, PayPoint’s Out-of-Home (OOH) parcel network. On average in 2025, nearly… This story continues at 1 in 4 parcels processed out […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Event Marketing Still Matters: Why Valentine’s Day Proves Timely Food Messaging Wins

In a persistently challenging macroeconomic climate, Valentine’s Day once again proves that event marketing—when done with relevance and restraint—still moves wallets and behavior. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, Valentine’s Day spending is projected to hit a record $29.1 billion, eclipsing last year’s $27.5 billion. Even more telling: shoppers […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Out of home delivery and automated parcel locker specialist InPost prepped for takeover

A consortium fronted by Advent and FedEx is set to buy InPost for 15.60 euros per share, valuing the European parcel locker company at 7.8 billion euros ($9.2 billion). The transaction to expected to close in the second half of this year. Advent and FedEx will each own a 37% stake in the parcel locker […]
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7 Eleven Super Bowl Sunday Super Customer Focused

  This is Food‑Fact‑Filled, Data‑Driven Look at How the World’s Largest Convenience Retailer Wins Big With Consumers by Steven Johnson’s the Grocerant Guru’s team at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® Super Bowl Sunday and National Pizza Day sit back‑to‑back on the calendar, and 7‑Eleven is treating both like the food‑centric cultural holidays they’ve become. With […]
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  1. Retailer Media

STRATACACHE powers in-store retail media push for Iceland and The Food Warehouse

Iceland Retail Media, a retail media network operated through Iceland and The Food Warehouse, is partnering with STRATACACHE to provide in-store digital signage, CMS and analytic sensor technology across 766 locations. The tie up makes Iceland and The Food Warehouse the first European retailer to employ STRATACACHE’s Walkbase solution for precise audience attribution. The deployment […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How Meal-Time Flexibility Is Redefining Retail Food in 2026

  The grocerant niche—fresh, Ready-to-Eat (RTE) and Heat-N-Eat (HNE) food designed for flexible meal assembly—has moved from a retail undercurrent to a primary growth engine across grocery, convenience, and foodservice-adjacent channels. Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson forecast this shift years ago, noting that time-starved yet flavor-charged consumers increasingly source meal components from non-traditional retail […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Milestone for Amazon Just Walk Out: last week’s biggest technology plays at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, launches, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Including AWS, Ocado Group, Currys, Stripe, Pennies, Tesco, Mistral AI, Asos, Sierra, Represent, Dema, Carrefour Belgium, and Reckon.ai. AWS A new Amazon Just Walk Out technology powered store has gone live at Loyola University New Orleans in […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

JD Sports Fashion puts finishing touches to head office based retail tech innovation centre

JD Sports Fashion has completed work on a new technology innovation centre situated at its head office. In a LinkedIn post, Matthew Amer, Head of IT Testing Services at JD Sports Fashion, said: “The final finishing touches to the JD Sports Head Office Technology Innovation Centre were completed on 19th December with the installation of […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Smarter and Faster: How Gen AI Is Already Changing In-Store Retail Operations

You walk into a large home improvement store looking for a washer assembly to fix your kitchen faucet (and, let’s be honest, a few tips from the staff on how to not mess up the installation). But when you get there, it takes 10 minutes to track down an employee. And the one you find […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Connected Forecourt: How Fuel Retailers are Turning Stations into Shopping Destinations

Fuel and convenience retail is changing fast. The traditional forecourt is no longer just a place to fill up and leave; it’s evolving into a connected, customer-first retail hub that blends physical speed with digital convenience. As consumer expectations rise and connected technologies mature, fuel retailers are discovering new ways to transform the pump-side experience […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Tops of Sports – Media trends shaping sports marketing for 2026

Tops of sports Media trends shaping sports marketing for 2026 Download now Tops of sports Media trends shaping sports marketing for 2026 Download now 2025 proved to be a pivotal year for sports as consumers continue to adapt to a changing media landscape. A growing intensity of fan engagement coupled with an evolution of how […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

How Retailers Can Unlock New Revenue Streams Through In-Store Media

Physical stores are concerned with shelf space and turnover. The brick-and-mortar shops are becoming influential media networks with the power to capture buyers’ attention at the very moment they make their buying decisions. Since foot traffic is one of the most valuable resources of retailers, there is an additional chance to commercialize the foot traffic […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Galaxy Hot Chocolate invests in winter out of home campaign

Mars Drinks & Treats (MD&T) has launched a new out-of-home (OOH) campaign celebrating its Galaxy Hot Chocolate range. With 35% of hot chocolate sales taking place in the final quarter of the year, Mars Drinks & Treats (MD&T) is set to make the most of… This story continues at Galaxy Hot Chocolate invests in winter […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Telling Your Brand Story Through In-Store Experiences

Today’s shoppers aren’t just buying products. They’re buying into values, looking for brands that reflect who they are and what they care about. Whether it’s sustainability, social justice or community involvement, modern consumers increasingly want to feel good about where they spend their money. And they aren’t shy about walking away when companies don’t meet […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Starring Lush, Primark, and Morrisons: RTIH presents this week’s biggest retail technology stories

It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail tech space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past few days, including Talon.One, VoCoVo, PayPal, Abercrombie & Fitch, Retail Technology Show 2026, and Lincolnshire Co-op. 1. Lush works with Talon.One […]
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  1. Data & Insights

AI-Empowered Kiosks: The New Brand Builders at the Crossroads of Restaurants, C-Stores, Grocery & Consumers

  Self-service has evolved from convenience to core consumer expectation, according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Now AI-powered kiosks are now emerging as brand engines for the next decade of food retailing. Once limited to ticketing and check-in, kiosks are now rewriting the playbook for restaurants, c-stores, and grocers. […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Irn-Bru Snowman back on TV screens in Scotland

Irn-Bru has returned to Scotland’s TV screens with its Irn-Bru Snowman advert. The campaign is now live on TV, broadcaster video-on-demand, social media and out-of-home adverts and will run until Christmas. Dino Labbate, chief commercial officer at brand owner AG Barr, said: “Scottish shoppers readily… This story continues at Irn-Bru Snowman back on TV screens […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Wayfair Launches Project Management Tool for Design Professionals

Wayfair has launched My Projects, an integrated project management tool available exclusively to Wayfair Professional members. As part of the Professional ecosystem, the tool is designed to allow pros to create projects and source products directly from the Wayfair catalog, as well as assigning tasks, setting deadlines and tracking progress through status updates and dashboards. […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Asahi Super Dry launches first global platform

Asahi Super Dry has introduced a new global brand platform and tag line, ‘Seek What Is Unique’. It’s brought to life via a 360-campaign, spanning all of Asahi Super Dry’s touchpoints; from social and other digital media, to TV, cinema, OOH, on and off trade… This story continues at Asahi Super Dry launches first global […]
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  1. Merchandising

Drive-Thru Food Packaging – Operational Insights & Next Steps

  When Taco Bell launched the Doritos Locos Taco, the product quickly became a cultural phenomenon according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Yet, the packaging wasn’t designed to handle its popularity. The result: messy customer experiences, increased waste, and operational friction. This case underscores a vital truth: product innovation […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Perion and Albertsons Media Collective unlock first-party audiences via display and DOOH campaigns

Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media arm of Albertsons Companies, has announced a partnership with Perion Network that gives advertisers the ability to activate against the retailer’s purchase-based first-party audiences across Perion’s display and DOOH formats.     The tie up enables advertisers to reach more than 100 million verified shoppers throughout the entire purchase journey – […]
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  1. Department: Food

AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence

Following my cartoon last month on the content firehose, I was struck by this comment from Albi Pagenstert, head of brand for BMW North America: “Authenticity is the new disruption. At a time when everyone’s using AI to simulate something that looks and feels real, being genuine actually stands out.” Albi was describing the brief […]
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Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go Are Gone A Historical Retrospective on Amazon’s Grocery Experiments & the Road Ahead

  On January 27, 2026, Amazon confirmed what many analysts had quietly anticipated: its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store banners are being shuttered across the U.S., ending a decade of experimentation in brick-and-mortar grocery retail. According to Amazon, all 57 Amazon Fresh grocery stores and 15 Amazon Go locations are slated to close imminently […]
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BREAKING NEWS:  Amazon Bails Out Of Physical Stores Business, Closing Go And Fresh Stores

Amazon announced today that it is closing its 57 Amazon Fresh Stores and 15 Amazon Go stores.  With the exception of Whole Foods, which it acquired for $13.7 billion in 2017, it will now be out of the bricks-and-mortar business for the time being. The company’s food retail focus now will be on expanding its […]
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December E-Grocery Sales Hit $12.7 Billion, Up 32% YOY

The latest Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopper Survey is out, reporting that “monthly U.S. online grocery sales accelerated dramatically in December, with total sales surging 32% year-over-year (YOY) to finish the month with a record high $12.7 billion … This robust performance reflects higher order frequency, spending rates, and a larger user base than December […]
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NRF 2026 review: AI grabs the spotlight as retail technology steps into its next chapter

By James Pepper, Vista Technology Support A Brief Introduction to NRF and How the Show Is Structured Every January, the National Retail Federation’s ‘Retail’s Big Show’ transforms New York’s Javits Centre into one of the most influential gatherings in the global retail calendar. Tens of thousands of professionals arrive to explore new technologies, exchange ideas, […]
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