With collection, rather than delivery, the most popular means of receiving online orders, cross-channel retailing is emerging as the dominant model in U.S. online grocery. Do you see collection points driving e-grocery’s growth in the future?
As legalization spreads across the country and cannabis becoming less of a taboo, more marketers this year partook in 4/20, the unofficial national celebration of weed. Has it become less risky to run marketing campaigns around 4/20 and using cannabis-themes in general?
With Toys “R” Us exiting, Tim Hall, CEO of analytics startup Simporter and a former Hasbro executive, believes grocery stores could be well positioned to pick up the missing volume. Which retailers and channels are best positioned to capture the volume lost by the exit of Toys “R” Us?
Google recently introduced Shopping Actions, a program that enables retailers to list products across Google Search, the Google Express shopping service and the Google Assistant app for smartphones and smart speakers like Google Home. Will Google’s Shopping Actions help retailers significantly reduce Amazon’s competitive advantage in product search?
According to a new report for the retail real estate developer, Cushman & Wakefield, the U.S. will have 300 food halls by 2020, up from 70 currently. Do see the food hall phenomenon offering positive benefits to retail, or are they simply temporary “placeholders” for more valuable tenants?
REI has introduced rigorous product sustainability standards that apply to each of the more than 1,000 brands sold at the co-op. Is REI going too far with its sustainability requirements for vendors?
A new study has found that product discovery has leaped ahead of payment complexities as the leading inhibitor holding back mobile purchases. What do you think of the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to aid product discovery on smartphones?
Barnes & Noble has launched Browsery, an app that uses crowdsourcing to help readers discover new books. What do you think of B&N’s Browsery app strategy? Will it draw more sales for the retailer?
Despite lessons learned from past data breaches from Target, Home Depot and others, an epidemic of breaches is hitting the retail industry. Do you see retailers increasingly facing greater vulnerability to online breaches versus in-store?
Hearing that women often feel misrepresented in much of advertising, The North Face launched “Move Mountains,” a campaign celebrating the “new generation of female explorers.” What do you think of The North Face’s Move Mountains campaign?
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