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Food Delivery Is No Longer a Feature—It’s a Standalone Retail Channel

  The evidence is no longer anecdotal. Food delivery has evolved into a fully distinct retail channel—complete with its own economics, shopper behavior patterns, merchandising strategies, and competitive dynamics. Treating it as merely an “extension” of restaurants or grocery stores is strategically outdated according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Marc Lore’s startup Wonder preps blockbuster 2026 IPO: last week’s most read RTIH retail technology articles

Check out our most clicked articles from last week, including Boot Barn, Aptos, Amazon Just Walk Out technology, Morrisons, Vusion, JD Sports Fashion, Kevel, Dollar General, The Trade Desk, and the first ever RTIH Retail Technology Hot 100 List.  Have your say and vote today! First ever RTIH Retail Technology Hot 100 List goes live, […]
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  1. Agencies & Vendors

Total Market Measurement with NielsenIQ’s Kim Cox & Richard Pereira

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Kim Cox, Managing Director NA Omnichannel Intelligence Solutions & Richard Pereira, Regional Product Leader, NA at NielsenIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. Follow Kim Cox on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-cox-nielsenFollow Richard […]
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  1. Data & Insights

One View From Capitol Hill On Retail Pricing Debate

MNB reader Jim Dunnigan reached out yesterday to share an exchange of correspondence that he’d had with his US Senator, Joni Ernst, about the issue of pricing visibility and dynamic pricing, and specifically the One Fair Price Act that was introduced in the US Senate last December. The legislation is co-sponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Content about Content about Content

I drew this week’s cartoon inspired by today’s content overload and the circular creator economy. When I left college in the 90s, I moved to Prague and found a job at Velvet, an English-language magazine for the booming but close-knit expat scene. At that strange time when Eastern Europe opened up, there were more than […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Digital transformation specialist Vusion among TIME’s top ten most influential retail companies of 2026

Vusion, a specialist in AI powered digitalisation solutions for physical commerce, has been named to TIME’s Top 10 Most Influential Retail Companies of 2026 and the inaugural TIME100 Companies Industry Leaders list. This highlights companies making an extraordinary impact across industries and serves as a precursor to the annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list. The […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Misalignment at Speed

A friend sent me a William Blair research report this week that characterized enterprise AI adoption as “a mile wide and an inch deep.” Just about every organization has started to use AI tools in some fashion. But there’s little orchestration of how those tools are actually used. And very little alignment across the enterprise. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Shining stars: the latest edition of the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List goes live at RTS 2026

The latest edition of the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List is here, sponsored by 3D Cloud and launching on the first day of RTS 2026 in London. The list has seen a surge in popularity over the past few years, to the point that we’ve decided publishing it once a year is no […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Human Made

This week’s cartoon goes out to my friend Ann Handley, who has been putting up a valiant defense for the em dash (—). As Ann put it recently: “People are patrolling the streets, rounding up em dashes like it’s CSI: Grammar Unit. “Use one in a paragraph? That means you’re secretly AI! You’re generating your […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Anthropic’s Mythos is Here. Is OpenAI’s Spud Next?

After Anthropic’s introduction of Mythos — the mega-model it said is too dangerous to release to the public — OpenAI is poised for AI’s next big moment with “Spud.” “Spud” is a massive new base model that OpenAI President Greg Brockman recently told us is “a new pre-train” that can understand instructions and context better. […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Storytelling and AI

LinkedIn reported that the percentage of US job postings that include the term “storyteller” doubled last year from the year before. Katie Deighton recently wrote about this in the WSJ: “Marketing and technology companies have often repurposed grandiose descriptions from other arenas to lend corporate office roles additional sparkle. While the heyday of technology gurus, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Human in the Loop

I drew this week’s cartoon inspired by some of the latest growing pains of human-AI collaboration. As AI gets more autonomous, the traditional “human in the loop” oversight model is showing strain. With pressure to “10X productivity” with fleets of AI agents, how best to keep up with the avalanche and complexity of approvals? The […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Advertising in Everyday Moments with DoorDash’s Vassili Samolis

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Vassili Samolis, Head of Ad Product at DoorDash, one of the world’s leading local commerce platforms that helps businesses of all kinds grow and innovate, connects consumers to the best of their neighborhoods, and gives people fast, flexible ways to earn.  Follow Vassili on LinkedIn at: […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Brands Chasing Youth

The marketing industry’s obsession with youth is nothing new.  Thinking about what makes the next generation of consumers tick is a perennial activity. Generic one-size-fits-all advice on how to crack the code on Gen Z (age 16-29) and Gen Alpha (age 0-16) circulates constantly. Sometimes these generations are awkwardly bundled together as “Gen Zalpha.” Much […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Planning for Uncertainty

Almost exactly 6 years ago, as things started to shut down for Covid, I drew a cartoon about the challenges of planning in a time of uncertainty. An executive holds up a coin and says, “We need to update our forecast. Heads, this will blow over soon. Tails, it’s the end of the world.” At […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Expanding What’s Possible for Retail Execution with FORM’s David Gottlieb & Jeff Wrona

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by David Gottlieb, Chief Revenue officer and Jeff Wrona, VP Product, Image Recognition for FORM, the makers of the award-winning market execution software GoSpotCheck and FORM OpX, and Trax, the industry-recognized global pioneer of Image Recognition, delivering AI-powered shelf-level insights that help brands and retailers improve execution, […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

AI Org Chart

My AI Mad Libs cartoon last week on urgency without clarity in AI strategy was one of my most licensed cartoons from the last 24 years. It got me thinking of the trickle-down effects of muddled strategy through an organization. Whenever there’s ill-defined strategy at the top, there will be poor alignment all the way […]
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  1. Data & Insights

KC/In Conversation:  “Store Design At The Speed Of Culture” (Part 2)

Content Guy’s Note:  To recap … Last year, I had the opportunity to be part of a Retail Tomorrow session sponsored by the California Grocers Association (CGA) on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC), focusing on innovative and imaginative store design for a future that is now.  Our guide was Deborah English […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

AI Strategy

We’re in a strange time of urgency without clarity in AI adoption. The pressure is on to adopt everything everywhere all at once. A case in point is agentic AI. Suddenly the term “agentic” is used indiscriminately in everything from strategy decks to marketing copy. Even simple chatbots are being called agents. The pace seems […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Asos veteran Ricky Jassal ends time at fast fashion giant and heads over to Sainsbury’s

Ricky Jassal has left Asos where he spent the past 14 years, holding various roles during that time, most recently Senior Solution Lead, UK Warehouse Fulfilment Technology. His next job will be with Sainsbury’s Digital, Tech and Data, which powers the UK grocery giant’s retail site. In a LinkedIn post, Jassal said: “After 14 years […]
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  1. Data & Insights

KC/In Conversation:  “Store Design At The Speed Of Culture”

Content Guy’s Note:  Last year, I had the opportunity to be part of a Retail Tomorrow session sponsored by the California Grocers Association (CGA) on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC), focusing on innovative and imaginative store design for a future that is now.  Our guide was Deborah English of DL English […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

The Marketing Plan

A few year ago, Mark Ritson wrote a handy guide to creating a marketing plan and critiqued those who make “PowerPoint decks by the yard.” Mark wrote: “Most marketing plans are PowerPoint presentations. Nothing wrong with that. But they are just too damned long – 50, 100, 200 slides in a plan. This is a […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

CAGNY 2026 Recap

In this episode, Sri & PVSB recap the highlights from the 2026 Consumer Analysts Group of New York (CAGNY) annual conference. Read our recaps at Mass Market Retailers here: https://massmarketretailers.com/tag/cagny-2026/ To learn more about CAGNY, go here: https://consumeranalystgroupny.com/ This episode is sponsored by retailmediaIQ, publishers of Mass Market Retailers We rated each presentation on 7 […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Food Marketing in 2026: Connected, Contextual, and Conversion-Driven

  The shorthand from a decade ago—local, social, mobile, digital—was directionally correct. In 2026, however, competitive advantage no longer comes from being present on those platforms. It comes from orchestrating them with precision, first-party data, frictionless commerce, and measurable incrementality according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. The center of […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Fixing Paid Social for Retailer Sales with Ampd’s Joshua Gebhardt & Brandon Nutter

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Joshua Gebhardt CEO & Co-Founder and Brandon Nutter, CTO & Co-Founder of Ampd which connects paid social campaigns to actual sales at retailers, unlocking new, full-funnel targeting capabilities for brands that want to scale CPG sales from Meta and TikTok ads. Follow Joshua Gebhardt on LinkedIn […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

New Asos virtual try-on experience launches in partnership with AI fashion platform AIUTA

Asos is laying claim to a unique hybrid approach to virtual try-on that lets customers see how selected products could look on them by uploading their own image or choosing an AI generated virtual model that represents their likeness.  This initially launches in partnership with AI fashion platform AIUTA with around 10,000 products on the Asos IOS app. The feature will be available to […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Target Among First to Test ChatGPT Ads

ChatGPT has begun testing ads in its answer engine in the U.S., and Target, along with its retail media division Roundel, is among the first partner brands to participate. After months of rumors, OpenAI formally announced plans to begin offering advertising in January, and the test is now live for logged-in adult users in ChatGPT’s […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Advertising, Brand Recall, and Celebrities

Super Bowl ads have always juggled story power and star power. But the overall swing toward celebrities has been an ongoing trend. In 2010, just 31% of Super Bowl ads included a famous face. Last year, a whopping 68% of Super Bowl ads featured celebrities and 51% featured multiple celebrities, according to iSpot.tv and EMARKETER. […]
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  1. Retailer Media

Real Time Bidding in Retail Media with Macy’s Michael Krans and Pentaleap’s Andreas Reiffen

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Michael Krans, Vice President of Retail Media at Macy’s Inc. and Andreas Reiffen, Founder and CEO of Pentaleap, a best-in-class ad-serving platform focused on relevance, transparency, and performance. Follow Michael on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-j-krans-a7ba85Follow Macy’s online at: https://www.macysmedianetwork.com/Follow Andreas on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasreiffenFollow Pentaleap on LinkedIn […]
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Walmart to Expand Digital Shelf Labels Chainwide

Walmart will deploy digital shelf labels (DSLs) chainwide this year, doubling the approximately 2,300 U.S. locations currently using the technology (Walmart U.S. operates more than 4,600 stores). With more than 120,000 items in a typical Walmart store, managing price changes manually requires significant associate hours. Additionally, these DSLs are equipped with LED lights that make […]
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