Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Retailers can no longer ignore consumers’ demand for improved sustainability initiatives. For years, grocers have been in the spotlight for their food waste and plastic bags. For years, grocers have been in the spotlight for their food waste and plastic bags. Now it’s retailers’ turn to act.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Kantar reported that the market share for the UK’s third largest grocer now sits at 12.6%, down 1.1% Asda’s weak performance contrasts discounter rivals Aldi and Lidl, both of which gained ground during the period in both sales and market share terms. during the period, which helped to bump its market share up 0.1

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

However, this void also presents a significant opportunity for grocers. With customers increasingly returning to in-store shopping, grocery stores are now in a prime position to reclaim and expand their share of the alcohol market. The impact of these cashback programs is significant.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-focused online grocer Thrive Market plans to launch a retail media network powered by Instacart ’s Carrot Ads solution. Thrive Market will use Carrot Ads to help connect brands with its more than 1.5 million members through sponsored product and display ads on its own website and app.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the start of another year in the new normal, retailers are still questioning how to best engage with consumers in the post-pandemic world. In the past two years, consumers’ expectations and preferences have vastly changed. If one thing has become clear during the last two years, it’s that consumers value options for convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

For a long time, retail consumer data-gathering was a game rigged for big players. As a report from consulting firm Catalina showed, 90 of the top 100 consumer packaged goods companies lost market share to smaller brands in recent years. Many of these smaller brands are benefiting from changes in consumer panels.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. grocers are valued at $8.5 boasting 365 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

So, from our perspective, there was an opportunity to serve both consumers and merchants toward the goal of making sure that we can get the best of a city to the customers that live there.”.

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Retail Wire

MAY 14, 2025

“Frosty is one of the most iconic items on Wendys menu, and we know that consumers are increasingly seeking new flavors and variety,” Lindsay Radkoski, U.S. chief marketing officer for The Wendy’s Company, said in a statement. The company also partnered with Warner Bros.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Weis Markets will streamline operations at its 198 stores through a partnership with Invafresh. Interest in fresh food is on the rise, and while this has led to higher sales for grocers it also has increased labor costs. Weis is adopting new technology to help automate certain processes to reduce the workload of its staff.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2024

Rising costs created unprecedented challenges for grocers as dollar stores made their moves into the grocery space. While traditional grocers can’t undercut dollar store prices, they can amplify the benefits that dollar stores notoriously don’t have — quality and convenience, including expanded services and meal options.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

RedMart by Lazada, Singapore’s first fully digital grocer, recently released the findings of its latest research into Singaporean grocery shopping and restocking habits. He believes that encouraging consumers to buy in bulk at lower prices could also help, as delivery is provided.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) In 2022, grocers will need to become digital-first.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2024

Australia’s leading supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, delivered their third-quarter results to shareholders this week along with new consumer insights. Both retailers reported that the current economic environment has challenged consumers’ discretionary spending and that households have evolved their buying habits to seek out value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

Indeed, price was the top consumer need across all income brackets , including 66% of people making $50,000 to $74,999 and 53% making more than $200,000. The top six digital retailers are 1) Amazon, 2) Amazon Fresh , 3) Target , 4) Sam’s Club, 5) Walmart and 6) Walmart Neighborhood Market. Over the six-year history of the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Coles has officially entered Malaysia, where it is poised to offer more than 200 products through an exclusive collaboration with Malaysian supermarket chain Jaya Grocer. The deal will allow Jaya Grocer to offer over 1000 products from Australian brands through its 43 stores and via GrabMart delivery nationwide.

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Tokinomo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The food company is pointing out that "LVII represents 57" and encouraging consumers to cast their vote against the use of Roman numerals for a chance to win a rare ketchup bottle. In preparation for this year's Super Bowl LVII, Heinz Ketchup is highlighting the confusion caused by the use of Roman numerals in the advertising of big games.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

As of last year, Erewhon had amassed a total ending market value (EMV) of $60 million, exceeding more accessibly priced grocery chains like Sam’s Club ($59 million EMV) or Sprouts ($27 million EMV), a report by influencer marketing platform CreatorIQ stated.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Through our partnership with Instacart, we’re able to leverage Platform technologies that have helped us seamlessly grow our ecommerce business.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

DoorDash Builds Out its White-Label Tech Offering SevenRooms offers a suite of marketing, operations and guest experience tools for restaurants, hotels and hospitality businesses, all of which integrate into its customer relationship platform (CRM). billion ($3.9 The acquisition price values Deliveroo at 2.4 billion ($3.2 billion ($3.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

Save A Lot has entered a new partnership with RangeMe to scale the discount grocer’s sourcing efforts for new and innovative products. The deal will help Save A Lot fulfill its mission of providing consumers with products that meet their needs via new product discovery of emerging and established brands.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 1, 2025

in the 12 weeks to 23 March 2025, with its market share slipping to 12.5%, according to the latest data from Kantar. In contrast, Aldi and Lidl both gained market share during the period. Aldis market share rose to 11.0%, while Lidls increased to 7.8%, as their sales grew by 5.6% share of the market.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” Mercato was founded in Brooklyn and has partnerships with local independent grocers including Sahadi’s and Patel Brothers, but this initiative is designed to empower stores in more marginalized neighborhoods.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Were building our technology for our retailer partners to help them compete with much, much, much larger players and grocers. That was really the birth of Connected Store it was the intersection of those two insights from our retailers and from our consumers. It’s very rare to find something with so much consumer pull.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

All too often, this is caused by sluggish internal processes, outdated technology and inaccurate data that stall products from getting to market quickly. Consider, for example, a drugstore chain that has a new OTC drug coming to market in time for allergy season, and the products release is tied to a national advertising campaign.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mexican grocer Chedraui , Raley’s Supermarkets and Primark Stores have topped the National Retail Federation’s 2023 Hot 25 Retailers list, which ranks the fastest-growing retail companies in the U.S. 5; and Southern California retailer Superior Grocers added 22 Numero Uno stores in 2022, pushing it to No. Raley’s Supermarkets, No.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2023

As the retail media landscape continues to grow , Uber is expanding the types of ads available to CPG brands on the Uber Eats platform, and Sprouts Famers Market is leveraging Instacart ’s Carrot Ads platform to launch its own retail media network. The new offering is currently available in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

Were creating an even more attractive offering for advertisers to easily stay connected with customers wherever they choose to shop among Instacarts growing network of retail sites powered by Carrot Ads, which will now include one of the Midwests largest grocers. In July 2024 Hy-Vee implemented digital shelf tags powered by VusionGroup.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart is currently piloting the new ad service with Schnuck Markets , Good Food Holdings and Plum Market , among others, with plans to roll it out more broadly later this year. We are eager to continue to test and iterate on these new concepts as consumer needs continue to evolve.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Gopuff has partnered with Misfits Market , an online grocer dedicated to reducing food waste that delivers to Gopuff’s microfulfillment centers nearly every day, while Grubhub will work with Mercato , an online marketplace for independent grocery stores with more than 950 retailers across the country.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Apollo Funds has reached a deal with KKR to acquire Cardenas Market, a grocery chain serving Hispanic consumers. Apollo plans to add Cardenas to a portfolio that includes Tony’s Fresh Market, a specialty grocer in Chicago. Both companies will continue to operate under their own banners and management.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Freshippo’s items will be available through Ebest’s shopping app and website, with a product selection tailored to the Australian market, including Chinese delicacies such as snacks, juices, tea drinks, and culinary sauces. Australia is Freshippo’s third offshore market after the US and Singapore.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

are currently a mere one-tenth the size of China’s market, it is gaining traction nationwide. To capitalize on this growing opportunity, brands, retailers and even grocers are sharpening their social media strategies and placing authentic content creation at the center of everything they do. Although social commerce sales in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, thanks to the creativity of chains like Target, Costco, Publix, Whole Foods, Wegmans, Trader Joe’s and Walmart, consumers no longer see private-label products as inferior copycats. But other grocers and retailers are not Target. Why should a value grocer that operates in lower-income areas mimic these looks?

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Retail Gazette

MAY 6, 2025

Asda has named Morrisons’ marketing director Rachel Eyre as its new chief customer officer. Eyre previously served as chief customer and marketing officer for Morrisons, where she was in charge of the rival grocer’s customer service, brand, marketing, digital and PR activities.

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Retail Customer Experience

JUNE 27, 2023

Automating online grocery selection can bring savings for food markets and consumers and drive a more rewarding customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

As grocers around the world work furiously to meet consumers’ demand for delivery without breaking the bank, Chinese online grocer Missfresh looks to have a winning model. Where Chinese consumers do need some convincing, however, is in buying fresh produce online. So many people rely on our network during lockdowns.”.

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