VMS

MAY 17, 2021

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

That is why Interstore | Schweitzer , which believes brick-and-mortar is the linchpin of the omnichannel customer experience, analyzed food stores all over the world, coming up with a list of 50 stores they believe every serious retailer (and food lover) should visit. Space and Atmosphere. Expertise and Craftsmanship. “We

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2024

This will likely see more value messaging put forward by the big grocers in a bid to win over customers. A human touch 2023 saw a flood of self-service check-outs introduced to many stores across the UK, with the likes of H&M, Zara and M&S all increasing the roll out of such machines in their fashion departments.

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365 Retail

JULY 28, 2021

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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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Range has since started opening Wilko stores and owner Chris Dawson told Retail Gazette earlier this month that he plans to open 40 more next year. The plan, published by the National Police Chiefs Council, set out how police should respond to and investigate thefts against convenience stores and other retail businesses.

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365 Retail

MAY 24, 2023

But it was decades in the making, born by the grocery sector’s need to bust long checkout queues. It also enables the blended “buy online pick-up in store” shopping experience consumers lean toward. And to think, it all started with a simple barcode in a grocery checkout.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

These emerging brands have an uphill battle as they look to establish a foothold in the consumer packaged goods space. They’ve just recently begun selling in stores and face competition from more recognizable brands, even in a store such as Whole Foods that leans toward smaller companies. Why is this the case?

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — Buoyed by the recent boom in omnichannel retailing, Instacart is redoubling its efforts to cement a central role in the marketplace, extending existing relationships with retail partners, establishing new ones, and expanding the scope of activities to include services that directly touch what goes on inside the store.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 Amazon signaled its intention to enter the brick-and-mortar retail space in a major way by acquiring Whole Foods Market for $13.7 Amazon also accelerated Whole Foods’ physical expansion, opening 16 stores across the country during 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic and adding another six last year.

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 11, 2022

It is also known for its laid back vibe but don’t let those homey Trader Joe’s stores fool you, Trader Joe’s has one of the highest sales per square feet in the industry. If an item doesn’t pull its weight in our stores, it goes away, making room for another innovative new product. Stores are small, fun and cheerful.

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Retail Adventures

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Amazon stores, including Amazon Go, Whole Foods Market, and Amazon Fresh currently employ Amazon One , a “fast, convenient, contactless way to use your palm to pay at a store, present a loyalty card, enter a venue, or badge into work” to move shoppers quickly through checkout lines.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Scot: [4:56] Yes sadly there was no Star Wars in this one so it’s that one little part of the over the Venn diagram was left is its own little circle out in space. So I think that’s the bull case the bear case is they’ve hit saturation they’ve got all the stores. 4% is anemic and nowhere to go but down.

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Retail Geek

JULY 30, 2021

Jason is back on the road and has some retail store visit reports: Bed Bath & Beyond Flagship in Chelsea Harry Potter Store New York Google New York Neighborhood Goods Starbucks Reserve New York. Jason: [1:35] Yeah it was fun I mostly want to focus on stores that had opened for the first time during the pandemic and surprisingly.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02]

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In other news: Walmart is accelerating it’s automated picking for store fulfillment. You like on average went up 20% thanks to covid but what I think is happening here is for any other grocer. 15:12] Shifts from being a store a physical store sale to a digital sale so I think. Uber has purchased Drizly for $1.1B.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Potential customers you want to meet and they give a list of vendors they want to meet and if you both swipe right like they booked a meeting so shoptalk booked 50,000 meetings, for this event and you can you can go online and get you know Google pictures of the meeting space. It’s way bigger than the exhibit space so I give it was a.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

This month you’ve seen all these news articles about Amazon actually having too much warehouse space too much what they call fulfillment center space and how they’re literally trying to sublease space to other people that they may have over-invested, as e-commerce starts to slow down and if you cook to the this next slide. [8:15]

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The online retailer with the lowest prices is … Chain Store Age. Also, Dollar General and Dollar Tree added stores to help more consumers stretch every dollar. SKU’d: Another day another dollar store. Ulta Beauty to double Black-owned brands in its stores, feature more Black women in ads. Chain Store Age.

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