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What’s in Store for Grocery in 2022?

Retail TouchPoints

The supply chain crisis means an out-of-stock crisis for grocers, and empty shelves means unhappy and disloyal customers. Meanwhile, rising energy, shipping and labor costs means higher prices for many grocery items. In 2022, grocers will need to become digital-first. Merchandise assortments will shrink dramatically.

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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. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption.

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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

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. Grocers that convince customers to become loyalty card holders, for example, will achieve levels of customer retention that restaurants don’t often see.

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Star Micronics Introduces A New Line of mG-T Scales, Innovative Designs For Point Of Sale

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With a trio of capacities available, these scales are perfect for grocery, shipping, retail, frozen yogurt and ice cream shops, or bulk sales of any kind. Even cannabis operations requiring larger weights of flower can use the mG-T scales.

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Tesco’s Strategy for Gaining Market Share

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That’s one of the reasons why discount grocers like Aldi and Lidl were able to gain share in the United Kingdom over a decade ago after the last recession. It has attacked the threat from discount grocers head on by offering everyday low prices on a selection of items and it’s paying off. Value for money. Source: Bloomberg.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

Jason: [37:26] No exact yeah I mean I think the Grocer’s talk and I hesitate to bring this up because I don’t think I remember I’ll for off the top my head but there’s like four typical types of shopping missions right so there is that like Pantry stocking shop there’s like a weekly shop there’s a.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Karate undesirable products it felt very wish like to me except wishes and happen this is the website, and so my my test purchase I found a short a shirt for sale for 99 cents with free shipping to the United States from China, and so and in fact it was on sale for 30% off so I think my my landed cost for this shirt was like 76 cents.