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| Aug 23, 2024
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Albertsons, Costco, and Instacart are enhancing their retail media offerings. TikTok Shop reached a $1 million livestream. And three-time consecutive first place winner Walmart is developing immersive ways to shop and catering product lines to younger shoppers. Here’s our Unofficial Most Interesting Retailers List for June 2024.
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| Jun 27, 2024
Here’s how ad buyers ranked the retail media networks of 14 leading CPG-focused retailers—including Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons, Amazon, Costco Wholesale, CVS, Instacart, Kroger, Target, and Walmart—according to the attributes they value most.
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| Sep 12, 2023
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| Jun 5, 2023
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Amazon, Costco Wholesale, and other retailers now face an uphill battle to win recurring revenues in the era of subscription fatigue.
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| May 8, 2023
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| Mar 29, 2023
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That’s nearly as many as the proportion who pay for a Costco membership (27%), and nearly three times the number who subscribe to Instacart+ (9%). Importantly, subscribers are sticking around: Annualized retention reached its highest level in the first half of the year since the program’s inception, a spokeswoman told The Journal.
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| Aug 22, 2024
Costco launches its retail media network. The membership-based retailer already has a robust sampling program. Layering ad dollars on top of that is a smart revenue driver for Costco. In-store retail media is still in its infancy, accounting for only 0.7% of US omnichannel retail media spend this year, according to our March 2024 forecast.
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| Jul 1, 2024
The news: Best Buy is taking steps to compel shoppers to buy computers, TVs, and other consumer electronics from it rather than its broad array of online and offline competitors that includes Amazon, Costco, and Walmart.
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| Jul 24, 2024
Number two, Costco for That's right. Launching a retAIl media network. This is huge for those of us who have repeatedly sat in meetings with our retAIl team asking why Costco doesn't yet have a retAIl media network. They have one now it's launching, and I think that's a pretty big deal. Suzy Davidkhanian (10:14):.
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| Jun 26, 2024
The heartiest performers—Best Buy, Costco, Chewy, Lowe’s, and Etsy—will just hold on to their low-single-digit ecommerce market shares. And others—including Apple, Target, The Home Depot, and Macy’s—will track very slight declines. Temu, TikTok Shop, and Shein are shaking up the agenda.
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| Aug 23, 2024
On today's podcast episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how Costco is getting on and the vision for the wholesale retailer in a crowded marketplace. Then, for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank the two things Costco can take to the next level and two things it could do to get the naysayers to come back. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analyst Zak Stambor.
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| Oct 18, 2023
Yeah, so I insisted that we go to Sam's Club instead of Costco, specifically because of Scan and Go, we could get in and out quickly when the lines and everyone was going crazy.
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| Aug 14, 2024
About a quarter (24%) of adults belong to Walmart+, followed by Costco Wholesale’s membership program (23%) and Sam’s Club (21%.). Over a fifth (21%) of consumers don’t belong to any of the membership programs listed, suggesting there’s lots of room for growth. 3. Retail media networks can use data to enhance campaign measurement and attribution.
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| Jun 5, 2024
After Costco, Heckova! went back to the data to determine where to go next. “When we think of crossovers, we know our customers are shoppers at Costco. And where else do they look? They go to Target,” said Pawlowski. “As the rotation ended at Costco, we had a whole new community of consumers saying “Hey, I like this product. And we heard from a number of them saying that [Heckova!]
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| May 25, 2023
Private label products give retailers more control over sourcing, manufacturing, and pricing, which they can use to offer items for lower costs, encouraging consumers to try new products, leading to lifelong brand ambassadors who will swear by your brand. Here’s how Target, Walmart, and Costco are labeling up.
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| Jun 13, 2023
Dozens of other retailers—including Walmart, Target, The Kroger Co., Instacart, DoorDash, and Costco Wholesale—are also monetizing consumers’ search activity with ads. Retail media search ads are a critical lower-funnel tactic for advertisers. Although display is growing faster, search will still account for nearly two-thirds of retail media ad spending this year, per our forecast.
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| Jun 17, 2024
PepsiCo and Costco take opposing approaches to inflation: The CPG giant is relying on higher prices to mitigate cost increases while the retailer focuses on retaining cost-conscious shoppers.
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| Jul 13, 2022
Costco wants to build a store 65% larger than its typical warehouse: The Fresno, California, facility would combine ecommerce and traditional retail under one roof.
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| Jul 21, 2023
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A slew of nontraditional entrants and established healthcare players—from Amazon to Eli Lilly and Company, Costco, and Dexcom—want to reach more consumers by making it fast and easy to purchase prescription drugs, medical devices, and healthcare services online. Creating a patient experience that’s personalized, frictionless, and affordable will be key factors that separate winners from losers.
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| Apr 26, 2024
I was in the store with a Gen Z friend the other day, we were at Costco, and she pointed out that the little asterisk on the price tag meant that it was going to be moved out soon. And so she was like, "Wait another two weeks and the price will drop. So we'll come back then." And she was so savvy about it, and I'd never heard of that. Sara Lebow (14:11):. Yeah.
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| Sep 18, 2024