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  1. Trends & External Forces
ATLANTA — LexisNexis Risk Solutions has revealed the findings of the fourteenth edition of its annual LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study: Ecommerce and Retail Report – U.S. and Canada Edition. The report, based on a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting, shows that merchants in the U.S. and Canada incur an average cost of $3.00 […]
  1. Department: HBC
WASHINGTON – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in health care rankings and consumer advice, today published the second annual Best OTC Medicine & Health Products. The latest edition of the rankings features 132 categories, with 33 brand new over-the-counter product categories included this year. The brands with the most No. 1 products […]
  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. Media & Marketing
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Car Brand Loyalty in 2024 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This graphic visualizes the best and worst car brands in terms of brand loyalty. […]
  1. Data & Insights
2024 introduces distinct challenges for retail brands navigating data privacy amidst Google’s removal of cookies. Though cookie depreciation has been a looming threat since the original announcement back in 2020, Adtaxi’s 2024 Privacy Survey tells us that 33% of respondents still lack a cookie-replacement strategy. If your brand is in this category, there is no […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
ARLINGTON, Va. — Building on burgeoning consumer interest in the link between health and nutrition, the grocery industry aims to raise its profile as a destination for a broad and expanding range of products and services that support customers’ well-being. Executives at FMI – The Food Industry Association recently examined the trend during a briefing […]
  1. Media & Marketing
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Supermarket operators have sold nonfood products for decades, but they still aren’t getting their fair share of the business. Despite the frequent trips that shoppers make to the grocery store, the channel only accounts for 8% of volume in the health and beauty care, household products and general merchandise categories, according to […]
  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. Shopper & Customer
  There is nothing like starting off a new blog with a quote from William Shakespeare.  Well, here we go, “What’s past is prologue”. We are talking today about Gen Z grocery shopping habits and those of their grandparents, baby boomers. According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® in his […]
  1. Data & Insights
Only 11% of stores are providing recycling facilities for disposable vapes, says a survey from not-for-profit organisation Material Focus. The campaign group visited 764 retailers in 13 cities across the UK to find out if they were providing recycling facilities in their store. Only 86… This story continues at Nine in 10 stores failing to […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
  Insights of consumers are a tool that every marketing team can benefit from. In the case of Progressive Grocer, they go directly to shoppers to explore not only what they’re buying in supermarkets, but also why they’re making certain decisions.  In a great article by Jenny McTaggart the insights are easy to absorb. Steven […]
  1. Data & Insights
Retail crime – including shop theft, abuse and violence against store owners and their staff – is at record levels and has become a hot topic in the national news agenda over recent months. This week, alarming figures emerged from a second survey conducted by… This story continues at Complete brief survey on the impact […]
  1. Data & Insights
Following the recent announcement of a new vaping tax which will make products more expensive from October 2026, new insights from research and insights agency Opinium reveal that more than half (56%) of current vapers predict black market e-cigarette and vape sales will increase if… This story continues at Survey: More than 50% of vapers […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
When making key decisions about brand positioning and activation opportunities, brand leaders must pay close attention to the factors that influence audience buying behaviors. Brand leaders must leverage shopper mindsets to create powerful brand strategies, from messaging to channel strategy. In a Gartner survey, over 2,000 U.S. consumers were asked about traits that described the […]
  1. Media & Marketing
In modern media, personalization will become increasingly critical in connecting audiences with content and advertising that best align with their interests and preferences. For brands seeking 1:1 relationships with new consumers, quality audience data has become critical as the digital landscape expands and channel engagement fragments. This is particularly relevant across two fronts: traditional digital […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Have a new product that you’re getting ready to launch? You can’t just put it on a store shelf or make it available and hope people find it – you’ve got to promote it if you want a shot at it being successful. And while conventional marketing like print, online, television and radio advertising still […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
New research from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) indicates that Trading Standards Officers support the proposed Smokefree Generation Policy, tabled today in Parliament. A survey of local authority Trading Standards professionals has found that 80% of respondents support the government’s plan to stamp out… This story continues at Smokefree Generation Bill tabled; Trading Standards […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
A new survey conducted by leading smoking cessation and specialist vaping company Evapo, reveals almost two thirds of ex-smokers are at risk of returning to tobacco if the government brings in flavour restrictions. The survey also revealed that 71% of people over the age of… This story continues at Ex-smokers risk relapse if flavour ban […]
  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. Shopper & Customer
Global design and consultancy organization Arcadis (formerly CallisonRTKL) recently worked with Saks to reinvent its West Coast flagship experience. but the company also has worked with its portfolio of luxury clients on a range of new store designs and experiences. Based on the innovation that’s evident in all these projects, Sterling Plenert, Principal at Arcadis, […]
  1. Data & Insights
Alarming figures have emerged from a second survey conducted by the British Independent Retailers Association in assessing the impact of the ongoing retail crime wave plaguing Britain’s high streets. Bira, which works with over 6,000 independent businesses of all sizes across the UK, released its latest… This story continues at Retail crime wave continues to hit, […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
The New York Times had a piece over the weekend about how young people, largely because of the impact of TikTok and other social media sites, have turned Sephora into a “retailer of choice.” According to the story, “Teenagers in the United States have said Sephora is their favorite beauty retailer, surpassing Ulta, according to […]
  1. Data & Insights
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is spurring organizations across different sectors to fundamentally reimagine their approach to digital transformation. Nowhere is its disruptive potential more evident than in retail, where Gen AI’s ever-increasing capabilities are powering a new age of customer-centric innovation. Retailers are exploring use cases across a wide range of functions, from new […]
  1. Data & Insights
Publications about marketing often invoke the comparison of a digital shelf with a physical one. After all, a digital shelf displays your products for the customer to browse, just like a shelf in a brick-and-mortar store would. This comparison, however, has its limits. While customers come to browse the physical shelf, your digital shelf goes […]
  1. Data & Insights
Today’s guest post comes from Josh Marsh, Vice President and General Manager of Sonexus™ Access and Patient Support at Cardinal Health. Josh discusses factors that drive manufacturers to insource versus outsource patient support services. He shares data from a Cardinal Health survey of biopharmaceutical companies and offers four factors to consider when evaluating your patient […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
The February Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopper Survey is out, saying that “the U.S. online grocery market finished February with total monthly sales of $7.9 billion, down 10.5% compared to 2023.” According to the report, “Lower average order values (AOV) were the central catalyst driving the downward year-over-year sales trends as Ship-to-Home dropped 15.4% and […]
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Home Depot recently announced its acquisition of SRS Distribution for a whopping $18.25 billion. This hefty investment marks the company’s boldest stride yet to seize a larger share of the professional market, particularly targeting contractors and roofers.
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See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Car Brand Loyalty in 2024 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This graphic visualizes the best and worst car brands in terms of brand loyalty. […]
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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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