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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

We saw this at the start of the pandemic when food store sales shot up by 21%. The challenge with ordering too much food is that shipping is expensive and often unreliable with supply chain troubles, and warehouse space is a very limited resource. Transform shopping in-store. still plan to cook more at home.

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Claire’s Aims High (and Wide) with Next-Gen Paris Store, U.S. Grocery Expansion

Retail TouchPoints

Claire’s is celebrating the opening of its next-generation store in Paris with a Fashion Week event on March 6, 2023 that will spotlight the brand’s partnership with fashion designer Nicola Formichetti and V Magazine. At the same time the brand also is expanding its presence across grocery stores in the U.S.

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Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything. Forever

Retail Focus

Their latest example is “Just Walk Out,” a suite of technologies that enable shoppers to simply enter a store, gather their items, and simply leave. The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved.

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Digital Signage is Yoked and Ready for its Close-Up Thanks to RMNs

Retail TouchPoints

Oh great, another screen I need to market on, said no brand manager ever. And yet 2023 may be remembered by C-suite marketing teams everywhere as the year when the not-very-exciting category of digital signage became supercharged thanks to two key elements: retail media networks and first-person data.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. stores is Puma. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption.

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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Lai discussed how PayPal is helping retailers do just that, not only in the transaction phase but across the entire ecommerce experience and hinted at the potential for PayPal to move beyond digital into stores. What are the implications of not offering alternative payment methods, not just for grocers but for retailers in general?

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Grocery Store Design Impacted by Pandemic-Driven Shopping Behaviors

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That was the main change in shopping behavior grocers experienced during the coronavirus pandemic. Wary of catching COVID-19, many consumers made fewer trips to supermarkets and grocery stores, and when they did, they tended to buy more to extend the time between such excursions. For many grocers, that translated into higher sales.