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Kantar Retail maps out CVS’s shift to a more holistic approach in driving growth. This article explains the steps CVS is taking to balance its historical focus on growing share of wallet with renewed efforts to win shoppers and drive trips through store clustering and an expanded consumables offering.
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Target’s latest moves related to the company’s credit card program—including the decision to cease issuing Visa cards and the revamping of its rewards program—reflect efforts to lower its risk profile and better leverage the segment as a retail sales driver.
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Kantar Retail recently surveyed a co-located Walmart Supercenter and a Market Basket, analyzing prices, promotions, merchandise assortment, and more. This study explains how suppliers can align with the two retailers’ positioning and how smaller retailers can compete against larger rivals.
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For companies to effectively serve new demands, their leadership must rethink how they serve customers, experiment with new solutions, and integrate the learnings into their organizations to achieve a better offering.
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Demoulas Market Basket has evolved from a single location in 1917 in Lowell, Massachusetts to become a leading regional supermarket retailer with approximately 60 stores and 2009E revenues of approximately USD 2.1 billion.
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In Part 2 of our three-part series, Kantar Retail examines key components of the impact that cloud computing has had on retailer operations: the speed of change and the enablement of true multi-channel retailing.
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Kantar Retail examines Kroger’s first quarter financial results in the context of a post-modern marketplace and assesses the retailer's longer-term strategic focus.
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Though June results are positive, the recovery in retail sales will be challenged as long as doubts grow among shoppers. The news from the Gulf to Europe is starting to affect the outlook among shoppers.
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Hardly a new concept, cloud computing has become the buzz term as of late for all things digital, Internet, or even wireless. What exactly is it? What does it do? Kantar Retail explores the questions around cloud computing.
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On June 29, 2010, Walmart announced that Bill Simon is taking over Eduardo Castro-Wright’s position as President and Chief Executive of its US stores division. In this article, Kantar Retail details its takeaways from this reshuffle and outlines implications for suppliers to consider.
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In our second annual report about the leading global retail brands, Kantar Retail confirms the resilience of brands in a tough economy and explores two instances of dramatic brand value growth, Amazon and ALDI, that illuminate major trends.
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Emerging retail markets generally are at the extremes—either leading the pack with above-average growth rates or lagging the rest of the world with big declines. Between the extremes, the mature markets mostly managed modest declines or slight gains— although the United Kingdom was a key exception.
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