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Methodology: Data is from a November 2024 Morning Consult survey as cited in company newsletter. 2,206 US adults were surveyed online during September 20-24, 2024.

The news: Shoppers spent big over the holiday season, especially online. Deep discounts, growing optimism, and the desire to get ahead of potential 2025 price increases loosened consumers鈥� purse strings, contributing to healthy sales growth for the last two months of 2024. US online sales rose 8.7% YoY to a record $241.1 billion, per Adobe鈥攃lose to our projection for 9.0% ecommerce growth.

Rising costs across fast food and grocery staples like coffee, orange juice, and chocolate are shifting consumer spending habits. Lower-income consumers, in particular, are pulling back on QSR spending, affecting industrywide sales. Our take: Zigging when others zag is often a winning strategy, and McDonald鈥檚 decision to use the Egg McMuffin as a loss leader is already paying off.

Ecommerce hasn鈥檛 overtaken physical stores: An excerpt from our recent report explains how retail stores stack up against digital channels in driving new product discovery and conversions.

In 2025, discount grocery retailers like Aldi or Dollar General will lose their footing with consumers as other retailers offer more convenience, value, or variety. Walmart Inc. will amass $69.60 billion in US grocery ecommerce sales this year, making it the top grocery retailer by ecommerce sales, per our forecast.

The news: US retail sales (excluding automotive) grew 7.6% year over year (YoY) from November 1 to Christmas Eve, per Mastercard SpendingPulse鈥攚hich measures in-store and online retail sales including fuel, grocery, and restaurants. The numbers are not adjusted, which suggests spending slightly outpaced inflation.

Thrive Market, which specializes in organic, healthy groceries, launched its retail media network with Instacart. Instacart鈥檚 Carrot Ads solution will enable brands to run sponsored product and display ads on Thrive Market鈥檚 website and app. Self-service tools help brands set up and manage their campaigns, with optimized bidding options to drive specific business goals.

Amazon Fresh, despite failing to gain traction with its brick-and-mortar endeavors, is trying to assert itself in the grocery space. Its customer base, though much smaller than competitors like Walmart and Target, is attractive to consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers because those shoppers are open to trying new products.

Grocery run: Though grocery is further behind other categories, at 20.0% adoption, it is the fastest-growing app category in the US and has been for several years now with no sign of slowing. 鈥淭he rapid growth in grocery app users could feed the retail media craze,鈥� wrote our analyst Yoram Wurmser in his Mobile App Users 2023 report.

Just Walk Out faced hurdles in grocery, but finds other applications. "Just Walk Out just didn't work that well in [grocery] settings because there were still limitations to the tech," Canaves said. "[Amazon] has had a lot more success [with the technology] in small-format stores and retail environments with fewer SKUs and places where time is of the essence.".

Amazon dominates online beauty spend in the UK. The ecommerce giant has a 35.1% value share of online beauty sales, according to April 2023 data from NIQ鈥檚 Foxintelligence. However, pure-play generalists like Amazon have a lower share of spend among Gen Z and millennials than older generations, per NIQ. Drugstores and supermarkets also underperform with Gen Z and millennials online.

Instacart is bringing its smart Caper Carts to a number of independent retailers, including Geissler鈥檚 Supermarkets and Bowman鈥檚 Market, in addition to a partnership with Australian grocer Coles Supermarkets.

The most popular category of subscriptions among all consumers is digital media, followed by delivery services, gaming, and food and groceries, according to SurveyMonkey. Subscription OTT connected TV platform ad spending will grow 40.5% this year to reach $7.54 billion, per our March forecast.

The news: Grocery chain Hy-Vee promoted its head of retail media, Kathryn Mazza, to senior vice president and CMO, the company announced this week. Additionally, Mazza will become head of Hy-Vee鈥檚 retail media network RedMedia. She joined Hy-Vee in 2024 after leading retail media at Dick鈥檚 Sporting Goods.

However, grocery habits are tough to break, and Lidl鈥檚 strategic efforts in recent years have positioned it well to sustain its momentum. This article is part of 蘑菇AV鈥檚 client-only subscription Briefings鈥攄aily newsletters authored by industry analysts who are experts in marketing, advertising, media, and tech trends.

Having AI always on would allow it to remember what a user saw throughout the day, per The Information, and could help find lost objects or remember what鈥檚 in the fridge when grocery shopping. Zooming out: Meta isn鈥檛 alone in rolling back data privacy policies. In March, Amazon changed its policy for Alexa requests on Echo devices.

Use this chart: Marketers can use this chart to emphasize the opportunity for grocery brands to attract consumers who want to cook at home and illustrate the importance of value among restaurants and foodservice brands. Related 蘑菇AV reports:. US Grocery Ecommerce Benchmarks: Q4 2024 (蘑菇AV subscription required). Restaurant Digitization 2024 (蘑菇AV subscription required).