Consumer, Shopper, Retail Expert
Consumer, Shopper, Retail Expert
There has been plenty of hyperbole following the announcement of Amazon Go – Amazon’s innovation which completely removes the need for checkouts and manual scanning of products. Questions of how practical the solution is, how expensive it is, and so on. And there has been plenty of hyperbole suggesting that Amazon Go alone will change grocery …
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more competitive in the grocery market, Amazon launches Amazon Fresh in the UK. Yes, it’s only in London, but its 130,000 products, next day delivery, and a competitor that seems hell-bent on getting a chunk of the market at any price. So Amazon Fresh is here: what can brands …
There has been much written about the impact online shopping is having on traditional physical store retailing: much of it laden with hyperbole (‘retail is dead’). Bricks and Mortar retail isn’t dead and (as highlighted in my last post on In-store Beacons) is beginning to find ways to change stores to add more value to …
Brand loyalty has always been an enigmatic thing. A holy grail of marketing perhaps; certainly an often elusive goal. Arguably as online options flourish, it becomes a lot easier for shoppers to ‘shop around’. Instead of having to trek from store to store, different and diverse choices are literally in the shoppers’ laps. As Nielsen …
With all the talk about retailers responding to the challenges of online by changing the way their stores work, improving service and improving the overall shopping trip, I was looking forward to taking in a few stores on my recent trip back to the UK. The United Kingdom, with its grocery retail dominated by giants …
Online is changing the way people shop. Grocery in total may, so far, be less affected, with online retail share of sales still 5% or below in most markets. But parts of the CPG industry are changing rapidly. In China almost 19% of skin care products are now sold online according to Euromonitor. Make no …