Amazon Prime Day 2019 - Wiest & Co. Analysis By any measure, Amazon Prime Day, July 15 & 16, 2019, was a huge event and consumer success. Global Amazon Prime sales reached $7.16 Billion, up from $4.19B in 2018. But what should it mean for brands and for competing retailers? In brief, here [...]
New formats, new merchandising for Williams-Sonoma There has never been a more compelling time for retailers and manufacturers to experiment with their retail consumer space. McKinsey advocates for an innovation process in this article -- as shared on LinkedIn. While online coding is cheaper and faster than opening a whole new store, [...]
Can Amazon actually make money on selling groceries? Clearly it is innovating with new formats and services. Yet, Amazon's cashierless stores, Echo or 2-hour delivery don't deliver profits, yet. In recent post, the folks at Nutrition Business Journal and New Hope Media catalog several of these Amazon innovations, but I believe miss a couple [...]
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Karenann Terrell, CIO of Walmart. For anyone who's interested in Big Commerce and Big Data, the article is a good read on how to use information to increase customer satisfaction, sales and profits. Karenann Terrell, CIO, Walmart Stores - Wall Street Journal How's it work? While there are [...]
No matter if you have a dollar, a million or a billion bucks in the bank, you want to make sure you have more tomorrow -- or at least don't lose it. Launching for Success, Viral Adoption So, how do you decide where to put your money and time in launching a new product -- [...]
As a marketer, you need to stay abreast of changes in advertising. But with all the froth that usually accompanies advertising news, you can't be faulted for simply tuning it out. But really, there are important "sea changes" in the ad world that affect your business. Here's my distillation of big impact changes -- and [...]
In our Paleo era with its abundance of bacon-flavored everything, can a vegetarian restaurant be successful? Let alone can it be fast and delicious? Amy's Drive Thru - healthy vegetarian messaging Andy Berliner, vegetarian, organic food proponent and entrepreneur of Amy's Kitchen, Santa Rosa, California, certainly thinks so. Amy's Drive Thru opened July [...]
If you conduct international market research, you not only want to measure local attitudes and behavior, but also must comply with local practices, like the European Union’s Directive*on “Safe Harbor” for data privacy. While this is important for researchers, it now appears that the EU is also using its privacy laws to trip up US-based [...]
Sunny start to Natural Product Expo 2015 at Anaheim Convention Center If there were any doubts, lay them aside: Expo, with emphasis on Natural Product Expo, is mainstream. On my visit last week to Anaheim, I met and mingled with the throng of exhibitors and attendees. "Throng": yes, an expected 60,000 metastasized into [...]
More than 15,000 food professionals met and mingled with 1,300 exhibitors who presented their wares at the San Francisco International Fancy Food Show, January 11-13, 2015. And what did they see? What was new and trending? Here are my impressions. Paleo / Meat Proteins / Salumi - While there have always been many specialty [...]
