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How to Win With Grocery Retail Giants

Align your organization with key retailer priorities.

Staying Prepared

COVID-19, shopper decline & reduced offerings have resulted in unimaginable losses for retail foodservice growth. How can we reverse these trends?

Lunch Kitting?

In this article we take a look at some new attempts to win over consumers of meal kits, including options for convenience-seeking working parents.

“This has to be a render,” wrote Jesus Diaz, author and contributor at Co.Design, in his November 2017 article on grocery e-commerce. But what looks like a 3D depiction is actually 100% real robots zooming across a highly sophisticated product grid filling online grocery orders for real customers. The British-based company, Ocado, is the world’s […]

Private Label is in the Public Eye

Calling itself the “Procter & Gamble for Millennials,” San Francisco e-commerce company Brandless™ made its U.S. debut this past July eager to disrupt the CPG industry. The startup, which has secured over $50 million in funding, sells a variety of organic food and home goods all for an everyday low price of $3. Brandless™ says […]

The Customer Insight Behind Lidl’s Success

German grocery-discount chain, Lidl, recently announced the locations of its 20 six-aisle small-format stores opening this summer. But what struck me most was Lidl’s U.S. CEO’s comment on the new stores: Lidl’s new U.S. small-format store Less complexity. Meaning, fewer choices. At first this sounds counterintuitive to what we know about customers demanding choice and […]