Insights on Leading Retail Growth Platforms
Every season, RetailNet Group’s analyst team visits a variety of stores around the globe to see how retailers are laying out their merchandise. For Halloween, the creative displays change slightly, but the merchandising strategies remain consistent. Rapid product turnover, for this season especially, means that permanent fixtures do not make sense. Retailers purchase, and brands [...]
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 concept of the drive-thru in retail has fully blossomed in Europe, but the service is still gaining traction and awareness among US consumers. This year Stop & Shop unveiled a model that has a lot of similarities to the successful drive-through services being offered by retailers like E. Leclerc, Intermarche, and Auchan in France. [...]
In the past few years the economy and fuel prices have moved in opposite directions. While the consumer’s propensity to spend on discretionary items has dwindled, their gas prices have steadily increased. This “new norm” has opened the door for food retailers who are constantly looking to add value to their brands in the form [...]
What a difference a few years can make. It was only five to six years ago that supermarkets were rushing to add high-end amenities to their stores to communicate the “quality” of their offering and grow their business by attracting the upwardly mobile, time-starved middle class. Safeway invested $2 to $4 million per store to [...]
Retailers are rolling out new shopping solutions in order to meet the two most prevalent macro-economic trends this holiday season. First, while the economy is recovering, decreasing credit shows that consumers are either saving in order to pay down debt, or simply that a lack confidence in the economy has reduced discretionary spending. Second, visits [...]
One of store-based retailers’ biggest challenge in the battle with the trend towards e-commerce is inefficiencies in-store. The question that needs to be asked is: How do we make the shopping experience easier, faster, and more efficient? While self-checkout is checking out of large chain retail stores like Kroger, Big Y, and Safeway, other companies [...]
The front end of the store is critical to the survival of many national brands today. However, growing capabilities in technology are resulting in fewer square feet being devoted to checkout. Handheld scanners and self-checkout counters are reducing the amount of time shoppers spend in checkout lines. With reduced lines, brands must contend with the [...]
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