Insights on Leading Retail Growth Platforms
Located in Seattle, Washington, the Hointer Beta Store is a revolutionary apparel store targeting men. Founder & former Amazon executive, Nadia Shouraboura is banking on the “old” theory that “men don’t like to shop.” The result is a store that allows men to shop quickly with the help of their smartphone. This newest men’s clothing [...]
Keith Anderson’s one-hour year-end forum preview webinar outlines how the Year-End Forum Program will leave registrants with: (1) an understanding of the new business models and growth platforms worth watching, (2) great ideas from global innovators to share with your teams, (3) commercial innovation: how retailers’ and brands’ joint business plans should evolve, (4) an [...]
In the past few months, the Internet-based grocery retailer has evolved its business model to include a number of new services. Peapod, which is RetailNet Group projects to realize $495mil in 2012 and grow at a 9.1% sales CAGR from 2012-2016, is rapidly evolving to stay ahead of the ‘S-curve.’ While Peapod is traditionally known [...]
The notion of QR driven mobile shopping walls began with Tesco Homeplus, and has since been trialed by P&G, Cencosud, Toys “R” Us, and Ocado. See a more detailed analysis of this concept in one of our earlier posts: QR Codes Enable Virtual Shopping From Metro Stations in Chile and South Korea As of the [...]
Tesco’s Click & Collect grocery service, which was first offered to UK consumers in the summer of 2011, is very similar to the rapidly growing Drive concept services provided by hypermarkets like Auchan, E. Leclerc, and Intermarche in France. By visiting www.tesco.com/groceries, Tesco customers can select the items they want to purchase and pick them [...]
Cora is a retailer that operates 59 hypermarkets throughout France. While it is interesting to see that this regional player is able to take a relatively large share of hypermarket sales from the major players like E. Leclerc, Carrefour, and Auchan, the rest of the world will be most interested in its 24 Coradrive locations [...]
Le Drive, Intermarche’s version of the Drive format in France, has a similar pitch to that of the newer Casino Express format. Both advertise the ability pay and have the items that were purchased online placed in your car for you – all within a 5 minute timeframe. The major difference between this model and [...]
Casino unveiled the most recent example of the Drive format, ‘Casino Express,’ in France in September 2011. It marked the retailer’s first move to a standalone Drive concept. The ‘me too’ decision comes after many other big box retailers in the market had already embraced the idea – Auchan, E. Leclerc, Intermarche, and Carrefour. Prior [...]
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