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Preparing for the Unknown: Effectively Using Data to Predict this Year’s Holiday Trends

Retail TouchPoints

Typically we could count on this data to guide us as we plan for the next holiday season. That uncertainty will cause some challenges for retailers as they look to demand planning. Now’s the time to start planning for your Q4. Location, Location, Location. But more durable goods are also likely to see an abrupt change in sales.

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the retailer’s plans include redesigning back rooms to accommodate pickup, delivery and ship- from-store orders; adjusting staging operations for orders to drop in three-hour increments to maximize space; and sending overflow delivery orders to the crowdsourced Spark Driver network.

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‘Fast Delivery is Table Stakes’: Foxtrot CEO on Standing Out in the Crowded Digital C-Store Space

Retail TouchPoints

The boom has led to the launch of multiple competing services, from major grocers like Kroger to established delivery companies like DoorDash to online pure plays like Gopuff. The rapidly growing retailer, which raised $100 million in a February 2022 funding round, plans to open 25 new stores in 2022 , with more coming in 2023.

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Aldi vs Lidl: Who will win the battle of the discounters?

Retail Gazette

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. However, it made an even bigger investment in its expansion plan, opening 50 new branches to Aldi’s 18. But which discounter is on top? However, Which?

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Pandemic presents new differentiation prospects for grocers

Mass Relators

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s Brining groceries online.

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Taking stock of the “new normal” in grocery retail

Mass Relators

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing.