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An Up-Close Look at the 2021 Best New Products Awards Winners

This year’s 44 honorees create a tale of two c-stores: healthy products on one side and comforting, fun products on the other.
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  1. Department: HBC

CHPA’s statement on FDA’s O-T-C hearing aids proposed rule

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) issued the following statement from Marcia Howard, vice president, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issuance of a Proposed Rule and Draft Guidance for establishing a regulatory category for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids: “CHPA applauds FDA for issuing this long-awaited proposed rule which has the […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

New Spar for Peterhead

Petrol forecourt retailer EG Group has opened its latest Spar convenience store and forecourt at the Buchan Gateway Retail Park, Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. The 3,000 sq ft store has parking, an external ATM and is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Food-to-go includes sandwiches, hot and cold rolls and pastries, as well as a […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

Hawaiian Bros is More than a Capital Success

  The food industry is not as difficult as some make it out to be.  Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food sold when hot food is hot, cold food is cold, and full of flavor continues to drive growth in every sector of food retail today according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart Selects Transcarent To Provide Go-to-Market Solution for Self-Insured Employers 

Bentonville, Ark., and Palo Alto, Calif., October 15, 2021 — Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Transcarent today announced they would be working together as go-to-market partners for self-insured employers across the country.  The agreement allows Transcarent, which offers employees and their dependents a new, different and better health and care experience, to share Walmart’s everyday low cost on pharmaceuticals and other services with self-insured employers […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Dunkin’s New Halloween Costumes are a Hit

Dunkin Donuts will be top of mind with customers from coast to coast this year on the streets, at the office, at schools, and at home Halloween gathering according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Once again, Dunkin’ has partnered with Spirit Halloween this month with a sweet lineup of […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

Rite Aid Evolving with a Fresh Food Focus

  Retailer after retailer find that evolving with consumers pays off in the long run. Consumers are dynamic not static and retailers must be as well.  Demand for grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food had created new growth for many a retailer as regular readers of this blog know. Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocerant Convenience Drives Fresh Food and Beverage Sales

  At the intersection of fresh, fast, flavorful food is the convergence of time starved consumers looking for What’s for Dinner.  Regular readers of those blog know consumer want a meal, that is full flavored, fast to fix, and Restaurants with drive-thru’s have been clogged for two years, as consumers look for a quick solution […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart and Sam’s Club administer booster shots

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart and Sam’s Club are now administering Pfizer booster shots in more than 5,100 pharmacies around the country where supply allows. In addition, Walmart has a role to play in supporting long-term care facilities and will provide support to administer boosters to those in facilities with in-store events and onsite events at […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Industry leader to join CHPA’s executive team

WASHINGTON – The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) has appointed Douglas “Duffy” MacKay as senior vice president of dietary supplements. MacKay will lead CHPA’s cross-functional dietary supplements team, directing strategy, shaping policy and collaborating with stakeholders to help protect and grow this important, expanding consumer health category on behalf of the CHPA membership.  CHPA represents […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

Rite Aid partners with Uber Eats

PHILADELPHIA — Rite Aid Corp. has expanded its partnership with Uber Technologies to offer delivery of Rite Aid products nationwide through Uber Eats, the company said Friday. This partnership will allow customers to conveniently order and receive essential health care and grocery items directly to their homes. Jim Peters On-demand delivery is now available for 2,185 […]
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  1. Department: Food

Kum & Go Evolves ‘Better-for-You’ Fresh Food

  Engaging customer trial with grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food has been a success clue with relevance in every sector of retail foodservice for the past 18 years according to Nielsen and Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Now Kum & Go is rolling out a new fresh […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

2021 Global Market: Fall Experience Industry Thought Leadership Lineup

The 2021 Global Market: Fall Experience is just around the corner and will be taking place October 18-22, 2021. This is a unique, four-day product discovery experience facilitated by ECRM (RangeMe’s parent company) and powered by RangeMe. The goal is to bring suppliers and retailers from around the world face-to-face, virtually. Global Market is carefully […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

How Accenture and Salesforce Are Reinventing B2B Sales

This is a sponsored post produced in collaboration with Accenture. Late in 2020, executive leadership at Accenture recognized that their business-to-business (B2B) sales transformation offering was not going to serve clients the way they needed it to. Sure, there was the coronavirus pandemic, which in the near term has basically nullified tried-and-tested sales techniques – […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Tired of shopping? Let us offer you a cold beer

A Nisa Local in Leicestershire has installed a bistro with draught beer and wine at the back of the store to create a new experience for their customers. The idea is that customers can enjoy a drink and something to eat at the same time as they pick up their shopping at the Nisa Local […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Retail Traffic Trends #44: Holiday season predictions

With Q4 right around the corner, it’s time to quickly look into the pass to gather predictions for the 2021 holiday season. Analysts were pessimistic going into the 2020 holiday season and were quickly proved wrong when holiday sales were up 5.8% compared to 2019 sales. This year, with foot traffic increasing and retailers adapting […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Demand Curve: How to get social proof that grows your startup

Nick Costelloe Contributor Share on Twitter Nick writes actionable growth marketing insights as head of content at Demand Curve. More posts by this contributor Demand Curve: How to double conversions on your startup’s homepage Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing When people are uncertain, they look to others for behavioral guidance. This […]
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  1. Agencies & Vendors

IRI Launches New Lift Measurement Solution for Facebook

IRI®, a fast-growing global technology leader in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail and media companies, today announced the launch of IRI Lift™ for Facebook
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How to Protect Your Brand Through Pricing

Price management. Sounds fun, right? Regardless of your expertise and sophistication around pricing (you might be an analytics type who does actually think price management sounds fun), setting the right price on a product your company builds from scratch is incredibly important. Prices impact how resellers view your brand and color all your relationships with […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

OrderNerd aims to help restaurants use technology

OrderNerd co-founders Stephen Gladney and Justin Barber were eating at a restaurant a few years ago and noticed the establishment had four different tablets, one for each third-party delivery service. The process was awkward and cumbersome. They talked about the problem and decided that integrating all the order information into one platform would help restaurants. […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Dollar General Sees Health As Big Business Opportunity

From CNBC, a story about how Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos says that “the retailer is chasing business opportunities in health care for a simple reason: About 65% of the company’s stores are located in ‘health deserts.’ “That translates to more than 10,000 stores — including many in rural areas and small towns — where […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Dollar General Sees Health As Big Business Opportunity

From CNBC, a story about how Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos says that “the retailer is chasing business opportunities in health care for a simple reason: About 65% of the company’s stores are located in ‘health deserts.’ “That translates to more than 10,000 stores — including many in rural areas and small towns — where […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Shopworker violence law gets cold shoulder from government – again

The government has indicated it is not going to introduce a new legal offence of assaulting a shopworker, despite being pressed to do so after a Parliamentary select committee report. Today (September) the Home Affairs Select Committee published the government’s response to its report on violence and abuse towards retail workers. The government said: “A […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

Mr. Gatti’s Craveability Equals Dinner Table Delights

  The more consumer focused, consumer interactive, consumer participatory a brand is the more frequency a customer will show it according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Mr. Gatti’s Pizza with 113 locations is now open and in development nationwide, has recently bottled its famous buttermilk Ranch Dressing after more […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How to Jump Over the High Bar Amazon, Alibaba Set for Customer Experiences

The customers have spoken: Three bad experiences with a brand and they’re done. In fact,  90% of consumers expect online shopping to be better than in-person shopping.    The e-commerce giants of the world, from Amazon to Alibaba, have set a high bar. Now, all customers expect the same level of relevant information and personalization. […]
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Jason & Scot Show Episode 274 – Warby Parker and AllBirds file S-1 prospectus for IPOs

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In episode 274 we deep dive into the S-1 fillings from both Warby Parker and AllBirds. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook ?????  Warby Parker and AllBirds filed their S-1 registrations with the SEC in […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Harpoon Brewery and Dunkin’ Fall Lineup of Beers Are Out

  You do not have to be in Massachusetts, or visit Salem, Massachusetts to get a Midnight American Porter beer this fall. However, Boston, based Dunkin’ is rolling out four new beers again this year all in time for Halloween according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Get this, to […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

Pharmacy and drug store sales in the U.S. 1992-2020

This timeline depicts pharmacy and drug store sales in the United States from 1992 to 2020. In 2020, U.S. pharmacy and drug store sales amounted to about 300.86 billion U.S. dollars. U.S. Pharmacies and Drug Stores Industry The retail drug industry is comprised of pharmacies or drugstores, as they are known in North America. With […]
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Kroger Debuts Private Programmatic Advertising Marketplace

Solution enables brands to target relevant shoppers, optimize performance against actual retail sales The Kroger Co.’s retail media business, Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) powered by 84.51°, has rolled out a new private programmatic advertising marketplace. The Kroger Private Marketplace enables agencies and brands to target consumers by applying Kroger audience data to programmatic campaigns on […]
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Albertsons posts Q2 earnings beat. ID sales +1.5% (2 year stacked: 15.3%); digital sales +5% (2 year stacked: +248%). They announced a strong quarterly dividend of 20% and raised FY2021 outlook.  Gross profit margin decreased 28.6% (fuel, inflation, supply chain costs). Albertsons spoke to their transformation strategy and, specifically, called out modernizing their technical infrastructure […]
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