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Articles on shoppers and shopping trends.

  1. Shopper & Customer

From Frictionless to Seamless: How Retailers are Reimagining the In-Store Experience

Meaningful Customer Experiences Commerce is being reshaped on all fronts – leaving many retailers struggling with how to create meaningful consumer experiences. During the pandemic, shoppers quickly adapted to the ease of shopping online with curbside pickup and contactless deliveries. As restrictions were lifted, a ‘new’ consumer was born – one that blends their online […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Offers “Peek” At Its Shoppers’ Not-Very-Special Buying Habits

Amazon yesterday issued something it is calling its “Cart Report,” which seems to be the first in a series of reports that will lay out what its customers are shopping for, built around certain themes.  In this case, it is a “summer grilling shopping forecast based on last summer’s best sellers,” based on purchases made […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

FMI: Food shoppers are widening their concept of value

ARLINGTON, Va. — The latest consumer research by FMI – The Food Industry Association indicates that consumers are approaching grocery shopping with a new, broader concept of value than the traditional focus on price and quantity. Understanding the shift, which appears to be related largely to generational change, is essential for the food industry, says […]
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  1. Department & Category

FMI issues statement on food inflation

ARLINGTON, Va. – FMI – The Food Industry Association Vice President, Tax, Trade, Sustainability and Policy Development Andy Harig issued the following statement on the May 2023 Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers that reveal another month of moderating food price inflation. “The May CPI report reveals grocery prices continue to level off, with food price inflation […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocery shoppers expand perception of value

ARLINGTON, Va. — Grocery shoppers are considering a wider range of factors beyond just price when they evaluate whether the items they buy offer “good value,” according to a recent survey conducted by FMI – The Food Industry Association. The survey, part of FMI’s  U.S. Grocery Shopping Trends 2023 series, sheds light on the evolving […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

FMI: Consumers respond to high prices by seeking deals

ARLINGTON, VA — Shopping around to find bargains is a more popular way to cope with inflation than buying fewer items, according to a new survey of U.S. grocery shoppers conducted for FMI — the Food Industry Association. Among shoppers concerned about rising food prices, only 32% reported buying fewer items as a strategy in […]
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  1. Data & Insights

How Product Intelligence Supports the Retail Shopping Experience

Product Intelligence helps ensure retailers know as much—or more—about the products they stock as the shoppers that buy them. Properly applied, this helps create memorable shopping experiences that help increase shopper loyalty and frequency. This is possible because modern Product Intelligence solutions break product data into its component attributes making it easy to understand how […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The Price of Eggs Isn’t the Only Thing Grocers Are Managing These Days

According to FoodIndustry.com, the U.S. food market is worth $1.5 trillion annually, or roughly 4 percent of the domestic gross product. $800 billion of that revenue is from supermarkets and food stores. Compare this to the U.S. apparel market, which is estimated to be worth $318 billion (Statistica). And while the retail industry often focuses […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Don’t Ignore Email and SMS: Consumers Surely Haven’t

Looking for a marketing edge? Of course you are, but little did you know that the elusive edge may be closer than you realize. Omnisend’s recently released yearly email and SMS marketing benchmark report analyzed more than 17 billion marketing emails and 107 million SMS sent by brands in 2022. It showed how deeply consumers […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

What Amazon Shopping Trends Can Teach Us About Ecommerce Salsify

Just as the vast biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest can often serve as a microcosm of the planet’s broader ecology, the sheer scale of Amazon.com’s operation can also provide some insights into the behaviors and trends shaping the global economy.
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  1. Data & Insights

E-Commerce Growth in the Age of CX: Strategies for Success

The e-commerce trend shows no signs of diminishing as more consumers make this channel their preferred shopping destination. While economic uncertainties continue to affect business sentiment, e-commerce remains a bright spot. The global e-commerce growth rate for 2023 is forecast at 10.4 percent, bringing e-commerce sales worldwide to $6.3 trillion, an increase over the previous year. Additionally, recent […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Art & Science of Forecasting

Forecasting a new store’s sales is f***ing hard When you’re building a business case for a new store, the Year 1 Sales forecast is arguably the most difficult line item to pin down. It’s also one of the most influential variables in the model that can make or break the business case. Most of the […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Volcanica Coffee’s Founder and CEO on the Impact of Authentic Brand Storytelling

Maurice Contreras is founder and CEO of Volcanica Coffee, a specialty coffee roaster that imports 150-plus exotic coffees from volcanic regions around the world. While at the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City earlier this week, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan spoke with Contreras about the company and his career background, the online shopping […]
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  1. Retailer Media

Home Improvement Retail Media with Lowe’s One Roof Media Network’s Abi Subramanian

The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Abi Subramanian, Vice President of Lowe’s One Roof Media Network, a robust portfolio of omnichannel advertising services powered by Lowe’s customer data, real-time shopping trends, and proven marketing expertise. Follow Abi Subramanian on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abishake/ Follow Lowe’s  on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lowe’s-home-improvement/ Follow […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

2022 Recap: What Affected the Health & Wellness Industry This Year

Inflation, sustainability, and shopper trends shaped the market in 2022. The past 12 months have been eventful, exciting, and stressful. Unlike the previous two years that left everyone unmoored, 2022 was a year of moving forward. Shoppers returned to stores, students were in school, and workers settled into their permanent routines. The pandemic still affects […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

eBay UK comment: How retailers can respond to evolving consumer behaviour this winter

By Upasana Gupta, GM Advertising UK at eBay  As winter draws in, there are understandably growing concerns among consumers on what the future holds. Soaring energy bills, rising inflation and stagnant wages have created a relentless cost-of-living crisis, and many consumers are embracing frugality as a result. The latest research from eBay Ads found that the […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Holiday Struggles: Text Analysis Reveals Consumers’ Christmas Concerns

Will the holiday season help to bring the sparkle back into our lives or will consumers have themselves a miserable little Christmas? Numerical data signals the latter. Research by KPMG shows that 85 percent of consumers are somewhat, moderately or extremely concerned about inflation ahead of the holidays. With increased costs and supply and demand […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

How This Year’s Holiday Season Shopping Behaviors Will Affect Returns

Amidst varying themes of the upcoming winter season, an unexpected and adverse development has occurred regarding holiday spending: consumers are having to adjust budgets and consider inflationary concerns along with supply chain shortages, both affecting the price and availability of many products this year. As a result, the retail industry will experience much earlier shopping […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Inflation is Changing the Way Consumers Spend Money — Here’s How Retailers Can Cope

With prolonged inflation, hiked interest rates, and an economic downturn, it’s no wonder consumers are feeling an increased amount of stress when making purchases or buying services. And with the holiday season upon us, many are rethinking their spending habits even more than they already were. In fact, 60 percent of consumers say their priorities keep changing […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

4 Black Friday shopping trends in the US

As October ends and the winter holiday season comes around, Americans start to get excited for a few things: pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving, and of course, Black Friday. Since Q3 2021, 36% of Americans think the US economy is going to get worse, and 66% think their personal finances are going to do the same. But […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Consumers adapt to evolving economy, modify holiday grocery budgets

ARLINGTON, Va. — FMI—The Food Industry Association released Part VI of its U.S. Grocery Shopping Trends 2022 series, titled “Holiday Shopping.” The final release from the expansive survey of food shoppers’ journeys explores the sentiment and behaviors of consumers as they head into the holiday season. This year, typical holiday stress is exacerbated by inflationary concerns, with 62% […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Opinion: From TV to TikTok – how social has changed TV shopping forever

As one of the fastest-growing online shopping trends, social commerce is everywhere and it’s showing no signs of going away any time soon. A recent trends report from Checkout.com revealed… The post Opinion: From TV to TikTok – how social has changed TV shopping forever appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Perceptions vs. Reality: Shopper Trends and Behaviors You Might Not Expect

When it comes to eCommerce, how do you shop? Do you discover products on social media? What items are must-haves for certain holidays? Do your friends and family buy the same brands as you? Of course, everyone shops a little differently from one another. To uncover some of these differences and take a pulse on […]
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Retailers Gain Control of Their Sustainability Goals as the ESG Storm Clouds Start to Gather Over Operations

Using event-driven architecture (EDA), retailers must link essential data at speed and scale throughout their ecosystems near and far to come to grips with now essential environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in three key areas. 1. Dead Heading — Optimizing Transportation/Emissions on Every Journey When it comes to transportation within the retail sector, any […]
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Why Amazon’s Just Walk Out initiative failed – and why it’s not the end of checkout free technology

It recently emerged that Amazon’s Just Walk Out offering is being dropped from Amazon Fresh stores. However, it’s not checkout-free tech that’s failing, it’s the fact that Amazon’s checkout free solution doesn’t work, especially in grocery retailers, argues Will Glaser, Founder and CEO at Grabango. In the dynamic grocery retail landscape, a transformative wave is […]
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