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Aldi USA has launched a new ad campaign and web series featuring comedian and television host Ben Bailey, who plays up the brand’s “unique and quirky” attributes as a means of introducing it to new shoppers.
Bailey, best known as host of the t...
Food Lion on Monday announced a new round of price investments and said it has redesigned how it will communicate those prices to shoppers in its stores.
"Affordable prices and great deals are a significant part of our heritage at Food Lion an...
Metro claims to be the first Canadian grocer to create an app for the Apple Watch.
In store, app users can view grocery lists and check off items. Metro will also send weekly alerts about digital coupons and circulars that users can then view ...
Interactions’ recent Retail Perceptions survey of 2,000 consumers provides rather telling numbers about consumers and social media. A whopping 88 percent of consumers said they want to connect with retailers via social media. Of those, 73 percent...
The story line about Millennials is different now.
Until recently food retailers were a bit tentative about Generation Y, focused more on questions such as, “When will they get married, have families, and start spending more?”
There was no ...
For online grocer FreshDirect, technology is more than a means of taking orders and orchestrating delivery, but a way to build trust in food that shoppers can’t see, feel, smell or taste.
“A lot of people think this business is about home deli...
Meijer has been able to connect with Millennial consumers because much of its culture meshes well with these younger shoppers, JK Symancyk, the retailer’s president, said in a presentation Thursday.
The 218-store retailer was founded during th...
I was struck by this comment on my last IdeaXchange post (“Is your store a good neighbor?”):
The friendly atmosphere starts with the managers and filters down to the employees. An employee will treat customers only as well as they are treated...
CVS Health opened a digital innovation lab Thursday that will focus on developing digital services and personalized capabilities to support pharmacy and health experiences.
Beacon capabilities that allow customers to receive in-store pharmacy ...