Proxy Market Share An alternate source for Market Intelligence: Proxy Market Share Recap Category Deep Dive Category SWOT Analysis All in an easy to understand user-driven experience built to answer the important questions of Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, Who’s Gaining and Who’s Shrinking in the Canadian market.
Could This Marriage Wreak Havoc on the Status Quo? If you happen to be digitally savvy, reside in the upper quadrant of earners in the United States or Canada and love organic foods, you might be thinking this is a match made in heaven. And on the surface the Amazon buyout of Whole…
What does the future hold? If you were to look back at the power players of the Canadian grocery industry 25 years ago, you might conclude that not much has really changed since then. Oh sure, there has been some consolidation and Walmart has imported their food business from south of the border, but by…
Organics expensive compared to conventional produce If you were take a quick stroll through any Canadian grocery store you would likely find a number of organic fruits or vegetables to buy. Over the last couple of decades organics have grown in popularity amongst customers and increased in importance amongst grocery retailers, that is if penetration…
How present grocery companies will be successful with Millennials in the future Two momentous realities are taking shape with respect to the millennial generation, realities which will profoundly impact how successful grocery companies offer their products and services in the future. More importantly for successful grocery companies of the present, if they do not recognize…
What Will we be Eating? Building an Assortment to Match The consumer landscape is changing in profound ways. Boomers are aging, millennials are having children and the youngest among us, the generation Z’s are becoming increasingly influential with grocery store purchase decisions. Add to that the shifting cultural mosaic in North America and one can…
Amazon Go eliminates Checkouts completely! Recently online retailing giant Amazon announced it will be opening its first brick and mortar retail store. They have called it Amazon Go and the first location will be opening in Seattle, Washington in 2017. Those who would expect to see jaw dropping innovation at this first pilot location will not…
The fresh departments of a grocery business have become a high sales, high growth part of the store. Since these departments normally provide better contributions than the dry departments there is quite an incentive to grow their sales whenever possible. There are many things a grocery retailer can do to increase sales in their fresh…
Many times in my corporate past I have heard grumblings about meetings and the ineffectiveness surrounding them. I would hear things like “let’s go to another meeting to talk about meetings” or “our meetings are really just a session to hear so and so talk” or the most common “our meetings are too frequent, too…
