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  • πŸ“ˆ Expert Insights

    Experts Predict Strong Year for Digital Offers

    COUPON OFFICIALS expect continued growth in usage of digital offers in 2024 at the expense of paper coupons. Meanwhile, coupon fraud will continue to roil...
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    Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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  • πŸ“ˆ International

    Global Food and Drink Trends for 2024 Revealed

    THREE KEY TRENDS that will shape global food and drink industries in 2024 and the years ahead have been announced by Mintel, which provides information...
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    Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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  • Retail media may be huge, but coverage is uneven
    πŸ“ˆ Retail Media

    Mind the Gaps in Retail Media: Watchouts for Brands

    JUST WHEN you thought the retail media conversation couldn’t get any hotter, we hear high profile executives from the largest Retail Media Networks (RMNs) and...
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    Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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  • 🎨 Product Innovation

    New Weight-Loss Drugs Shake Up the Snack Food Business

    IT IS POSSIBLE that no single individual wields more influence in American popular culture than Oprah Winfrey. In everything from books to politics to weight...
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    Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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  • πŸ“ˆ CPG Viewpoints

    How to Accelerate ROI from a Walmart Luminate Investment

    EVERT WEEK, Walmart suppliers receive a comprehensive view into how their products are performing among the chain’s 140 million households. The data is from Walmart...
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    Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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  • πŸ“ˆ Coupons

    The Power of Printed Circulars

    IN THE AGE of digital marketing, print circulars may seem like an outdated promotional tool. However, recent studies show that consumers still rely on printed...
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    Tue, 6 Feb 2024
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  • πŸ’‘ Tech Innovation

    Consumers Express Interest in AI-Driven Shopping

    THE EXPERIENCE of shoppers and their expectation for new technology is a mixed bag, according to a major study of 20,000 consumers across 26 countries...
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    Tue, 6 Feb 2024
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    Spotlight on the Future Consumer: $20T in Spending Up for Grabs

    By 2036, consumers will have reevaluated their relationship with trust, time, and social connections. What this means for brands:  β— $20 trillion worth of consumer spending will be exposed due to trust failures. β— Trust shifts from a source-based to outcome-based model, dependent upon consistent performance. β— Eighty-six percent of consumers agree they care more about whether something works than the brand.
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    Wed, 16 Sep 2026
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    πŸ“ˆ Expert Insights

    The Fifth Trait Missing from Successful Innovation

    INNOVATION has advanced faster than at any other point in retail/CPG technology history over the past decade. Yet trust has moved in the opposite direction....
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    Tue, 25 Aug 2026
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    🎨 Product Innovation

    Are Legacy CPG Firms Shortchanging R&D?

    MAJOR BRANDS FACE ESCALATING PRESSURE from faster-moving challengers, say two recent research reports from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Barclays, the investment firm. Both research...
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    Tue, 25 Aug 2026
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    πŸ’‘ Tech Innovation

    Coty Tackles Nail Care Assortments with AI, Season after Season

    BEAUTY AND STYLE TRENDS change quickly with the seasons. That popular nail polish color for summer may be passΓ© by the holidays, which demands nimble...
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    Tue, 25 Aug 2026
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    πŸ“ˆ Expert Insights

    Your Plan Got Faster. Your Shelf Did Not.

    RESEARCHERS at the University of Texas and Harvard Business School studied 46 million worker shifts across 500 grocery stores. They found that store managers override...
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    Tue, 18 Aug 2026
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    πŸ“ˆ Expert Insights

    Why CPG's Biggest AI Returns Are Going Untapped

    MOST CONSUMER-PACKAGED GOODS companies now have an AI pilot running somewhere in the commercial organization. The harder question isn't whether to invest. It's whether the...
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    Tue, 18 Aug 2026
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    Securing The Future with eSettlement Best Practices

    THE INDUSTRY'S wish list includes cutting costs, enhancing cash flow, reducing fraud and eliminating paperwork. Manufacturers and retailers hope to benefit from the promise of...
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    Mon, 5 May 2025
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  • Brands and retailers negotiate retail media plans
    πŸ“ˆ Retail Media

    CPG Brands Seek Scale in Retail Media Audiences

    REGIONAL AND INDEPENDENT RETAILERS are not the only ones concerned about the concentration at the top of the Retail Media Network hierarchy. CPGs are also...
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    Tue, 4 Mar 2025
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    πŸ“ˆ Retail Media

    Retail Media Catching Fire As Brands Still Struggle to Meet their Audiences

    For CPG marketers, the rise of Retail Media Networks (RMNs) continues to create opportunities to drive brand awareness and sales lift in stores by advertising...
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    Wed, 11 Feb 2026
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  • πŸŽ™οΈ Commentary

    What Is the Effect of Tariffs on Couponing?

    IMAGINE you are a marketing director for a consumer products company in 2025. The coupon industry has always been wrought with unusual β€œissues” or β€œrules”...
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    Wed, 2 Jul 2025
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  • πŸŽ™οΈ Commentary

    Drowning in SKUs

    GROCERY STORES β€” like many specialty retailers β€” have always had to strike a delicate balance between running an efficient operation and maintaining a product...
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    Fri, 26 Dec 2025
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  • πŸ“ˆ Coupons

    Securing The Future with eSettlement Best Practices

    THE INDUSTRY'S WISH LIST includes cutting costs, enhancing cash flow, reducing fraud and eliminating paperwork. Manufacturers and retailers hope to benefit from the promise of...
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    Tue, 6 May 2025
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  • πŸ“ˆ Expert Insights

    Why eB2B Matters for CPG Growth in Traditional Trade

    AS THE CPG industry pivots from price-led growth to volume-driven, brand-led expansion, traditional trade marketsβ€”long viewed as complex and fragmentedβ€”are emerging as a critical growth...
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    Fri, 2 May 2025
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