Data Points

Consumers continue to ramp up their use of digital technologies, although grocery shoppers tend to employ such tools less than U.S. shoppers overall, according to Acosta’s “The Why? Behind The Buy” survey for spring 2013....More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted 69 to 27 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would allow state governments to begin collecting tax on online sales to consumers in their states....More

Big data is creating value for retailers in several ways, but the most important is supporting faster fact-based decisions, according to a report from Brick Meets Click....More

The combination of an improving macro-economic environment and some strong company-specific performances might have driven the stock-price gains among traditional supermarkets in the first quarter, according to Andrew Wolf, a Richmond, Va.-based analyst with BB&T Capital Markets....More