Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

Kantar head of retail and consumer insight Fraser McKevitt said “all eyes are back on inflation” after the Consumer Prices Index’s (CPI) unexpected rise earlier this month. He added that 9% of annual own label plant-based sales were made in January, down from 11% in 2020. Price inflation fell to 6.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Seasonal hiring provides a window into retailers’ priorities, and 2020 demonstrates both the COVID-19-powered growth in ecommerce and the need to operate stores and supply chains safely. More and more, retailers’ last-mile efforts are tied in with shipping and delivery companies. The rescheduled Prime Day, set for Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion USD ) in Q3 2020, a period that included the annual Singles’ Day online shopping bonanza, generating a year-over-year increase of 37%. Global Shopping Festival by stimulating consumption, satisfying consumer demands and supporting the business recovery of merchants in response to the impact of the pandemic. The 12th annual 11.11

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Independent Retailer

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

“In fact, there are certain services that consumers still prefer to go in person for, like product discovery and curbside pickup, so keeping a physical presence is essential.”. According to Forbes , in 2019, ecommerce sales represented 11 percent of all retail sales. Shoppers Crave In-Store Experiences.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 17, 2022

Online sales grew 11% compared to the same period last year, the preliminary insights show. Consumers splurged throughout the season, with apparel and department stores experiencing strong growth as shoppers sought to put their best-dressed foot forward.”. year over year) and e-commerce continuing to expand, up 11% compared to 2020.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2022

After launching a London office in 2018, StockX opened an authentication centre in the Netherlands in 2019, followed by one in Canada in 2020 and another in Australia last year. . In total, the business has 11 authentication centres worldwide and ships to more than 200 countries.

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VMS

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, online sales jumped 11 percent compared to the same period last year. Consumers splurged throughout the season, with apparel and department stores experiencing strong growth as shoppers sought to put their best dressed foot forward.”. percent in 2020 and 14.6 percent in 2019. percent in 2020 and 14.6

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Rangeme

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Like Janet Jackson, more consumers are asking brands, “What have you done for me lately?” In the past three months, more than 80% of consumers purchased a different brand from the one they normally buy and 44% said they would repurchase the new brand even if the original preferred brand was available again. August 4, 2020.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The business grew by 141 per cent between March 2020 and March 2021, and 100 new staff were hired to cope with demand. As a result, orders are picked, packed and shipped within Europe, meaning it can provide customers with faster delivery. “In ” Over 11 per cent of the Irish diaspora reside in Australia. A taste of Korea.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Before 2020, when travel was easy and diplomatic relations were cordial, I placed great emphasis on the need to build trusted relationships on the ground in China as the foundation of a successful market entry strategy. trillion Chinese consumers spent in 2019. trillion, and the US$5.6 personal care. ? home, mother and infant.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

“Shoppers were eager to secure their gifts ahead of the retail rush, with conversations surrounding supply chain and labor supply issues sending consumers online and to stores in droves,” said Steve Sadove, senior advisor for Mastercard and former CEO and Chairman of Saks Incorporated. compared to 2020. in 2020 and 14.6%

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Rangeme

JULY 12, 2022

goods exports in 2020. consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers and retailers need to know about selling to Canadians? companies potential opportunities to boost sales and minimize shipping costs. Canada has a slightly older population, with more consumers aged 25 and up. 11 World Population Review. of all U.S.

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Rangeme

JUNE 28, 2021

The pandemic was a preview of that, with pet care sales worldwide soaring by almost 9% in 2020, especially in certain categories: pet food sales grew 8%; accessories by 10%; and beauty and grooming categories increasing the most by 11%. Yes, I’m guilty; guilty; and guilty again.). Pet premiumization.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was easy for Forever 21 to capture the hearts and minds of young consumers looking for trendy apparel. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. While many argue Forever 21’s demise is due to a more socially conscious consumer fast fashion retailers are as popular as ever.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON – The unprecedented surge of imports at retail container ports that began last summer is expected to continue at least through the end of this summer as retailers work to meet increased consumer demand, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Launched in 2019 by the brewing company (owner of brands like Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona), BEES was designed to help AB InBev’s smaller retailers digitize at the same speed as its larger ones, according to Melissa Minkow, Director of Retail Strategy at digital transformation consultancy CI&T , which helped the company with the project.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 22, 2022

billion up 28% over 2020. Speaking about this Xu Lei JD.com’s CEO said : we “can only service certain number of consumers. Therefore, last year [2019], we determined to position JD as an all-channel retail platform. ” “In addition to our centralized online app, we also have a lot of de-centralized offline platforms.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. It ultimately chose not to pass on these cost increases to consumers, but invested instead in keeping prices low” Indeed, Lidl added more than 1.4

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you have a traditional retail business or a pure play eCommerce company then Amazon is a great model not just for how fast goods should be shipped but also for how to think differently about how to monetize your customer base. Amazon launched Amazon Pharmacy in 2020 which offers online ordering and delivery of prescriptions.

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

grocery sales were online in 2019, retailers had been investing heavily in e-commerce capabilities for a few years. The pandemic accelerated this gradual change: Online retailers captured market share from established brick-and-mortar players who had to quickly adapt to new in-store consumer purchase behavior and patterns.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We do a deep dive into the retail industries growth from 2019 through November 2021. If you want to follow along on with all the data, here is a visual recap of retail growth 2020-2021. We recap the US Dept of Commerce November Advanced Retail Sales Data. In those 23 months, the retail industry grew 22%, historically fast growth.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

5:53] And it’s 22 percent growth over 2019 and so, if you do have the deck and you were looking at slide for I show you the last 30 years of growth and the thing that will stand out at you is that this year’s growth. You know how the year stack up against each other and you know. [8:35]

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

billion consumers are shaping shopping trends. The containers if they even got to the port or having a difficult time getting off the ship in into the domestic supply chain and people saw a headline after headline when I say people like consumers by or shoppers and they realized if they didn’t buy early in the season. [11:03]

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

Scot: [2:11] Isn’t there one still open in Alaska if you’re gone to visit them. 5:15] Another hobby of I guess it was a shared one is we like to coin phrases, one of the ones that I coined was Zero friction addiction so when consumers have these low-friction experiences not only are they great.

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Retail Prophet

JUNE 16, 2021

But, as Christensen also observed, these same technologies often tend to improve on a trajectory that far outpaces consumer needs. Today, the iPhone weighs eight ounces, has 100,000 times more computing power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and performs hundreds of functions in our day-to-day lives. And brands have taken notice.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Salesforce shopping index combines data and holiday insights on the activity of more than a billion global shoppers across more than 54 countries powered by Commerce Cloud, billions of consumer engagements and millions of public social media conversations through Marketing Cloud, and customer service data powered by Service Cloud.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 251 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2020 predictions. 2020 Recap – Predictions made on episode 204. 2020 Predictions Recap. 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution).

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Episode 254 is a breakdown of Walmart and Shopify Q4 2020 earnings reports, a recap of 2020 sales data from the US Dept Commerce, and Amazon News. 2020 Sales Data. US Dept of Commerce released it’s retail data for December, which gives us a full picture of 2020, as well as the Q4 e-commerce data. versus 3.5%

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Scot: [1:11] An unrelated news he’s no longer but awesome I’m glad you did well we wanted. Jason: [0:58] We’ve tried all of those homeopathic remedies and we’re now on doggies ionx and the last time we talked to our vet like he actually said inadvertently suggested that both the dog and my wife should be on Zan.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Jason: [4:56] Yeah and that’s super exciting to me because that I frequently rail against the value of stated preference surveys in our industry and and what we’re talking about today is observed preferences lies actual data and consumer behavior that you’re watching. 2020 and 2021.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

It wouldn’t have felt any different than e-tail 2019 felt to me so I think people were like frankly pretty excited about getting back together. kind of smaller direct to Consumer Brands and I think those guys are right in the Wheelhouse of those impact so that absolutely was coming up. But we shall see.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Net positive ebit has but they basically have had a net loss every year except 2019 when they broke even. 8:26] You know you like if you look at 2018 you said hey they sold 270 million and they lost 22 million on it in 2019 they sold 370 million and they broke even. So what’s a little worrisome about that is. [8:26]

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Major disruptions to the supply chain, the last mille, and to consumer behavior as a result of covid, will make this year extremely hard to predict and manage for brands and retailers. 5:52] A kind of predictor of future spending is this this huge survey that University of Michigan does every month the consumer confidence index.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020. Yeah so they’re a fashion brand they’re a direct-to-consumer fashion brand I mentioned that they’re based in China. US Dept of Commerce Data. Q1 E-Commerce – Up 7.7%

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Retail Prophet

JULY 23, 2021

But, as Christensen also observed, these same technologies often tend to improve on a trajectory that far outpaces consumer needs. Today, the iPhone weighs eight ounces, has 100,000 times more computing power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and performs hundreds of functions in our day-to-day lives. And brands have taken notice.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

1:24] And just to set it up the you know in my world of start-up land it has been very hard to get an IPO done so there’s been a couple post coated and like late 2020. Scot: [23:11] Yes exactly yep that is a good description. [23:17] But then the growth in 2021 over 2020 was 24%.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Scot: [11:23] Pickle I got a million questions on Automation in you know kind of the state of Art and my mind is still the key the system is there something out there you think at least on the you kind of mentioned in store but I’m thinking more Warehouse side anything there that’s kind of.

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