Identify and leverage emerging trends in digital retail, technology, supply chain, and marketing to grow eCommerce and better target shoppers across multiple channels. Topics Understanding Pure Play Retailers The Shoppers' Evolving Path to Purchase Developing Multichannel Strategies Staying Ahead of Emerging Trends Understanding Pure Play Retailers Summary Slides Amazon North America: Q1 2017 Results and Analysis 12 Jun 2017 By: Meaghan Werle. 27 Slides In addition to examining Amazon’s latest financial results, this slide summary report highlights key North America initiatives in Q1 and important themes moving forward in 2017. Followers: 11 BLOG POST If Amazon Is a Behemoth Alibaba Is a Leviathan 12 Jun 2017 By: Alvaro Morilla Alibaba is one of the most interesting business cases around at the moment. Since its inception in 1999, growth has been phenomenal and unrelenting. Now an omnipresent entity for the Chinese population, it has global ambitions, with the financial and business clout to achieve them. The ... Followers: 11 BLOG POST The Battle to Become The Voice at Home: Welcome HomePod 8 Jun 2017 By: Alvaro Morilla Voice is the natural way for us to engage and communicate with the world. However, it was not too long ago that the prospect of devices able to resemble a natural conversation was dubious. As with many things in tech and eComerce, the pace of change is rapid in voice commerce. In 2014, ... Followers: 0 BLOG POST It is Better to Be a Disruptor Than Be Disrupted? 8 Jun 2017 By: Harriet Leach On the 17th and 18th May, Kantar Retail’s team of eCommerce experts from across the globe gathered to do what we do best; advise clients on how to win in the ever-changing omnichannel landscape. Together, with a carefully selected group of leading brands, showcasing best-in-class execution, ... Followers: 11 BLOG POST When Retailers Become Technology Platforms: Ocado Signs International Deal 5 Jun 2017 By: Alvaro Morilla We are now in a new age of retail enterprises. The winners in this new age are no longer just retailers, they are platforms. Those moving fast are the ones smart enough to offer their expertise and resources for others to benefit; think Uber, Airbnb or Amazon. They are technology companies whose ... View All The Shoppers' Evolving Path to Purchase SHOPPER ARTICLE A Mobile Cause: How Mobile Apparel Shoppers Are Redefining the Store 27 Oct 2016 By: Tiffany Hogan While the U.S. market is woefully overstored and continued store count reductions are on the horizon, ShopperScape® data confirms that there is still a need for stores as part of many shoppers’ ideal shopping experience. ARTICLE Triggering the Impulse Purchase Online 20 Oct 2016 By: Alvaro Morilla Understanding the techniques available to drive this all important purchase is now essential. Impulse is possible online, if you know which levers to pull and when to pull them. Walking the Box Apparel Store Visits: Back to School, Back to New 20 Sep 2016 By: Tiffany Hogan. 24 Slides Retailers are mixing old strategies with new to drive sales and connect with shoppers as they transition into fall. Followers: 105 BLOG POST What a “Wear Now” Runway Means for Retail 9 Sep 2016 By: Tiffany Hogan Once again, it’s time for the fashion-filled, media-blitzed New York Fashion Week. The star of this year’s event so far is not a model, a designer or a collection, but the industry’s latest buzzword(s): wear now. The “wear now” seed has been germinating for a couple ... Followers: 58 BLOG POST Kaufland Scan & Pay App or How Fast Followers Turn to Leaders 17 Aug 2016 By: Tudor Popa Kaufland Romania is the latest retailer to launch a Scan & Pay App (read the news here). This wouldn’t usually be big news, everybody’s doing it, but the fact the discounters are getting in on the act highlights the broader impact of digital on retailing. The App, which amongst ... View All Developing Multichannel Strategies Followers: 426 BLOG POST Walmart Buys Bonobos—How Do All of Its Acquisitions Add Up? 16 Jun 2017 By: Laura Kennedy, Tiffany Hogan Today, at the end of a mildly busy week in retail, Walmart announced its acquisition of the men’s clothing retailer Bonobos for USD 310 million. The ten-year-old Bonobos, which Walmart describes as “built on the internet,” began as an online seller and expanded to 37 brick ... Followers: 89 BLOG POST Did Amazon Just Win the Grocery Games? 16 Jun 2017 By: Diana Sheehan, Kantar Retail Research Team In what appears to be a completely unexpected turn of events, Amazon and Whole Foods just announced what may be the acquisition of the year, at least in the grocery industry. Within seconds of the announcement, grocery stock prices dropped, social media went bananas, and speculation of what ... Webinar Digital Retailing Webinar: Amazon, Walmart, & Alibaba: Assessing Recent Initiatives and Competitive Positioning 14 Jun 2017, 11:00 AM EDT As Prime membership scales in the U.S., Amazon continues to innovate on behalf of its members to fuel growth and lock in loyalty. In turn, Amazon is fundamentally reinventing the way shoppers buy online. To combat Amazon's efforts, retailers at home and abroad are ramping up their eCommerce operations to drive their competitive positioning. Join Kantar Retail in understanding three key behemoths as they battle to win online share. As part of this discussion, we will: Assess ... Summary Slides The Developing Commercial Reach of Today’s Social Media Platforms 25 May 2017 By: Meaghan Werle, Reid Greenberg. 30 Slides With more than 70% of U.S. primary shoppers owning a smartphone, shopping is quickly moving to the small screen. In turn, social media platforms are recognizing their power to reach shoppers on their mobile devices. Summary Slides Planning Against eCommerce Platforms 25 May 2017 By: Robin Sherk. 30 Slides In three years, one in five retail dollars will be spent online. Capitalizing on this fast-evolving channel is critical to driving growth. Lead players in this channel are not retailers in the traditional sense. They operate as platforms. View All Staying Ahead of Emerging Trends Summary Slides U.S. eCommerce Outlook: Category Group Forecasts 19 Jun 2017 By: Doug Hermanson, Robin Sherk. 12 Slides This slide deck summarizes Kantar Retail’s U.S. online channel forecast and in-store versus online category spending forecasts to 2022. Followers: 82 BLOG POST A Quick Note on Jet.com Dropping Costco’s Kirkland Signature 15 Jun 2017 By: Timothy Campbell You may have seen the headlines this week—Walmart is phasing out Costco’s Kirkland Signature private label brand from its Jet.com platform. While it’s an interesting new wrinkle in one of the biggest developments in eCommerce in the last year, I’ve received questions ... Followers: 106 BLOG POST 2017 NACDS Annual Conference Takeaways: Top Five Observations, Insights and Supplier Questions 2 May 2017 By: Brian Owens Happy Spring, everyone! The weather is improving, baseball is finally back (Go Red Sox!), and I am fresh off of four, fun-filled days at the 2017 National Chain Drug Store Conference Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, April 21-25th. For those unfamiliar with NACDS Annual, it’s ... Followers: 9 BLOG POST Direct to Consumer for CPG - Building a Moat for your Brand 14 Apr 2017 By: Reid Greenberg During last year's Kantar Retail Digital and eCommerce Conference one of the major topics the audience wanted to learn more about was direct to consumer (D2C). At this year's event in April, we had the opportunity to discuss D2C in greater detail. Gaining Momentum D2C (or ... ARTICLE Six eCommerce and Retail Predictions for 2025 31 Mar 2017 By: Reid Greenberg Massive innovations in technology have undeniably started to shift shopper demand and purchase behavior from brick-and-mortar to online formats and forced uncomfortable disruptions upon traditional retailers. View All