Ultra-Fast Food
10-minute grocery delivery? The market for instant home delivery is booming in Europe and North America as e-grocery matures: 🍎 54% growth […]
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Walmart’s Partnerships Boost Retail Power
Walmart wants to win. Bold partnerships improve its competitiveness by accessing partners’ competencies, helping Walmart align with urgent market trends. Investing in tech […]
2021 Retail Risks
Retail’s getting riskier. Here are 5 risks that retailers, brands and their supply chain partners are trying to mitigate to ensure business […]
Jeff Bezos’ Retail Legacy
Jeff Bezos changed retail forever. By catering to us like royalty with tech-driven convenience and efficiency, Amazon’s founder: ⭐️ Raised industry standards⭐️ […]
Revisiting 2021 Retail Tech Trends
It’s retail tech’s time. A 39% YoY rise in U.S. e-commerce sales in Q1 ($196 billion vs. $141 billion) shows how much […]
1 Year Later – How Covid-19 Changed Global Retail
Retail looks different. Today marks one year since this piece initially went live, so let’s see which changes have stuck. LASTING CHANGES: […]
Livestreaming Enlivens Retail
Retail goes live to air. Livestreaming helps retailers and brands: – Interact with consumers in real time– Target relevant audiences– Fuel e-commerce […]
Sustainable Advantage
This Mother’s Day, retail celebrates Mother Earth. 73% of global consumers say they would change their consumption habits to reduce their environmental […]
E-Commerce Fuels Stores’ Evolution
What’s in store? E-commerce’s influence. Online shopping growth has forced retailers to transform their brick-and-mortar stores into omnichannel assets. As e-commerce catapults […]
Virtual Try-Ons: Try Before You Buy
Seeing is believing – and buying. To earn consumer trust and e-commerce sales, Retailers; Brands; and Tech companies … are investing in […]
Private Label Power
The pandemic has made private labels extra popular. In 2020, the CPG industry grew >10% and private labels accounted for 18% of that […]
Ravenous for E-Grocery
We crave convenience. Consumers’ migration to e-commerce has made grocery the most exciting (& strategically significant) retail category, as: – Consumers desire […]
Delivering the Goods
The mall has arrived on our doorsteps. As e-commerce matures, we’ve seen remarkable growth in delivery services now that online shoppers expect […]
Porter’s 5 Forces: Retail 2021
Who has retail power? Porter’s 5 Forces model helps to explain market influences as retail undergoes tremendous upheaval. To manage fierce competition, […]
Home Sweet Home
There’s no place like home. A full year of working, learning and exercising at home has inspired us to reimagine our domestic […]
Ladies Who Launch
Women make their mark in business. In time for International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate women-owned businesses — and their growing influence. Notable […]
2021 Retail Acquisitions
Retail companies go shopping … It’s barely March yet we’ve already seen intriguing retail acquisitions this year, as: – Amazon knows what […]
China’s Retail Innovation
For a glimpse of retail’s future, let’s look at China. Since Friday kicked off the Lunar New Year, it’s the perfect time […]
How Retail Giants Compete
Rivals reveal where retail is heading. This final post in a series highlights how Amazon and Walmart lead with their strengths to […]
Walmart 2021 Strategy Diamond
Frugal is fashionable — and Walmart’s making moves to stay ahead. As value shopping and value-tier rivalry soar, this framework shows how […]