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....
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...
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...
SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE has been defined for decades by physical scale. Competitive advantage was driven by larger distribution networks, lower transportation costs, greater manufacturing capacity,...
WE HEAR ALOT about the potential of Artificial Intelligence to impact Category Management and Space Planning and we anticipate how emerging tools and processes will...
PRODUCT INNOVATION has been the principal fuel for growth in the consumer-packaged goods industry over the past 50 years. Manufacturers introduced new brands, formulations, flavors,...
WHAT LOOKS TO MOST brand-side executives like a routine operations issue has become a key threat to the retailer-brand collaboration. IHL Group studied major U.S....
A DECISIVE POWER SHIFT is reshaping the consumer-packaged goods industry. Retailers are no longer using private brands as a defensive price lever or a secondary...
FOR DECADES, private labels were a financial safety measure for shoppers who quickly forgot about them when budgets loosened. It was a price play: cheaper,...
