Think about major developments in the grocery retail industry between 1940 and 2015, and by major I’m talking about advances that are truly transformational in nature. When I went through this exercise I came up with only three: The development of self-shopping, the development of UPC barcode scanning, and the development of capturing customer identified…
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Fifty-six and one-in-eight equals a huge shift for the grocery business.
As we gaze toward the future of the grocery business, two numbers might be worthy of study. Both suggest significant changes in consumer behavior – and strategic investment. The first is 56 percent. That’s the number of US internet users in the past twelve months who purchased groceries online, according to research published recently by…
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