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Retailers’ Formula for Success: Use Data to Understand Shoppers

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Leading a successful retail business requires a combination of skills and resources but finding that balance can be difficult. No one knows better than Liz Williams, president and CFO of Foxtrot, and Cullen Gilchrist, CEO and founder of Union Kitchen. Both leaders have helped their respective businesses grow, build a reputation for innovation, and earn … Read more Retailers’ Formula for Success: Use Data to Understand Shoppers

Creating Health & Wellness Programs with Product Intelligence

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Key Takeaways for Health & Wellness Program Managers:  Product Intelligence helps Health & Wellness program managers (e.g., RDNs): Understand all products in a retailer’s catalog and evaluate by health benefits  Leverage custom-defined nutrition standards in program and diet development Create recommendations for shoppers based on their personal health goals  While Health & Wellness tends to … Read more Creating Health & Wellness Programs with Product Intelligence

Optimizing eCommerce with Product Intelligence

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Key Takeaways for eCommerce Managers:  Ensure all product data and images, including fresh and private label, are available.  Use attributes and badging to communicate product qualities.  Maximize product discoverability through granular, attribute-driven search and filtering to ensure no search goes unanswered. To create great experiences, retailers need to inform shoppers about how their products meet … Read more Optimizing eCommerce with Product Intelligence

Optimizing Assortment with Product Intelligence

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Key Takeaways for Category Managers Product Intelligence helps Category Managers:  Understand existing assortment and category gaps to identify new opportunities  Optimize category assortment to target values-oriented shoppers   Streamline product acquisition and onboarding timelines  Plenty of category and merchandise managers go with their gut when making decisions. They’ve spent so much time in their category that … Read more Optimizing Assortment with Product Intelligence

Choosing the Right Retail Product Intelligence Solution

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At its most basic, Product Intelligence is just logically organizing products to make it easy for shoppers to find what they’re looking for, e.g., organizing an assortment into aisles by category. However, as shoppers continue to make purchase decisions based on their values, basic categorization isn’t enough anymore. Shoppers aren’t looking for white or wheat, … Read more Choosing the Right Retail Product Intelligence Solution

How Product Intelligence Supports the Retail Shopping Experience

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Product Intelligence Supports the Retail Shopping Experience

Product Intelligence helps ensure retailers know as much—or more—about the products they stock as the shoppers that buy them. Properly applied, this helps create memorable shopping experiences that help increase shopper loyalty and frequency. This is possible because modern Product Intelligence solutions break product data into its component attributes making it easy to understand how … Read more How Product Intelligence Supports the Retail Shopping Experience

What is Product Intelligence for Retailers?

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If you’re a retailer, you probably know a lot about your shoppers. You know their demographics and values and already have a pretty good idea of what they’re buying and why. But that’s not always enough. Having the right assortment doesn’t mean anything if shoppers don’t understand which products meet their values, or worse, can’t … Read more What is Product Intelligence for Retailers?

Summer Fancy Food Show: 5 Trends We Saw At The Show

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The Summer Fancy Foods Show finally made its comeback this year after a two-year long hiatus, with the previous in-person show happening in 2019. From June 12-14, over 1800 exhibitors took over the Javits Center in New York City to display a variety of goods representing every single subcategory you can think of in the … Read more Summer Fancy Food Show: 5 Trends We Saw At The Show

Global Flavors Are Now Pantry Staples

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3 Reasons Shoppers Are Embracing Ingredients From Around the World Thanks to technology, the world is smaller—and smarter—than ever. An estimated 85% of Americans own a smartphone. That means most of us are a couple of finger taps away from finding answers to any questions we have. Watch a cooking video for any cuisine in … Read more Global Flavors Are Now Pantry Staples

Sweets & Snacks 2022: 7 Trends We Saw at the Expo

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The Sweets & Snacks Expo made its return to Chicago for the first time since 2019—just in time to celebrate its 25th anniversary. From May 24-26, thousands of manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, brokers, and exhibitors (and a plenty of fun mascots) filled McCormick place to see what exciting innovation is coming to the sweets and snacks … Read more Sweets & Snacks 2022: 7 Trends We Saw at the Expo