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Grocery Giant H-E-B Launches New Brand: How They Diversified Using Top Retail Trajectories
blaine.bowman - December 15, 2022H-E-B’s latest brand launch might be the new fore-front of customer loyalty. Building customer loyalty has never been so easy – so long as you know what you’re doing. For one supermarket chain, the answer to customer loyalty is built into their latest brand launch.
Read moreWill the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Revenue Continue Through the Rest of the Holiday Season?
Carol Spieckerman - December 7, 2022This year, retailers kicked off the holiday season early with deals beginning prior to Thanksgiving weekend. The encouragement from retailer sales to have consumers begin their holiday shopping early, has made some impact with this year breaking record revenue over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Read moreBlack Friday 2022 In-Review: How Did Supply Chain Challenges and Consumer Pessimism Turn into Record Sales?
Daniel Litwin - November 30, 2022Not only did Black Friday’s in-store foot traffic break records according to NRF, but sales numbers seem to show that Black Friday 2022 and Cyber Monday 2022 sales are setting records, with Cyber Monday becoming the biggest day of online sales in U.S. history.
Read moreOrganized Crime Targets Large Retail
Gabrielle Bejarano - November 22, 2022Theft is always a concern for retailers. Particularly for stores like Target, which carries small but valuable products on open display shelves. While there has always been an understood amount of profit lost due to stolen or misplaced items, today’s retailers are dealing with something completely d
Read moreA Perspective on Gap’s Recent Announcement to Sell on Amazon’s Marketplace
Gabrielle Bejarano - November 17, 2022Spieckerman Retail, President, Carol Spieckerman provides her perspective on Gap’s recent announcement to sell on Amazon’s marketplace. What is the impact of this on the strategy for big brand eCommerce launches of proprietary marketplaces? Amazon’s marketplace has become so popular that even big br
Read moreWalmart & Target Release 2nd Quarter Earnings Reports
Carol Spieckerman - September 6, 2022The state of the economy is a topic of daily conversation in the latter half of 2022. Is the U.S. in a recession? Is the U.S. heading towards a recession? Is the housing market finally going to burst and return to a state that is more normal? What about the rental market? And for retailers, the most
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