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Both retailers used generative AI to improve employee productivity in Q2鈥擶almart leveraged the tech to improve its product catalog and Target used it to enhance in-store employee tools. Target鈥檚 curbside pickup service helped it grow digital comparable sales 8.7% YoY, while Walmart鈥檚 marketplace and sales of GLP-1 drugs contributed to its 4.2% comp sales growth YoY.

And then I think the conversation becomes, which is a different one, so I know we don't want to go down that path, but is Amazon truly going to be a grocery place, the destination where people are going to go grocery shopping? So once we take that out of the equation and we don't even think about it in that term, we just think about the technology. I don't think it's the end of just walkout, right?

On today's podcast episode, we discuss what's driving online store sales for Amazon, its outlook on brick-and-mortar, and how its ad business is continuing to outperform the market. Tune in to the discussion with host Marcus Johnson, director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman and analyst Rachel Wolff.

I think online shoppers frequently cite difficulty finding things. Finding the products that they're looking for as the top challenge of shopping online and maybe one of the reasons why people prefer to shop in stores. They can see what's in front of them and figure out what they want a little faster. And I think books are a great example.

KDDI sees an opportunity to integrate its digital capabilities with the convenience store's 15,000 sites, to provide logistics bases to support online shopping services to the country's aging population. Good move, Man-Chung? Man-Chung Cheung:.

On today鈥檚 episode, we discuss what bank CMOs want, the types of customers they are looking for, and if the marketing teams they lead are shifting focus from brand messaging and corporate communications to the middle and lower marketing funnels their product teams target. In our "Headlines" segment, we discuss how bank marketers are building campaigns to reach Gen Zers across the digital ecosystem. In "Story by Numbers," we review bank CMOs' acquisition strategies and their focus on the marketing funnel. And in "What鈥檚 Next," we chat about banks strategies to acquire new customers. Join the conversation with host Rob Rubin and Joseph Pagano, vice president of marketing solutions consulting services at TransUnion.

Will it be like when you get your groceries delivered and they present different alternatives to what you initially bought, maybe you can move it to 8:00 PM, they've got an 8:00 PM or it's not a history museum, but there is a cool art gallery nearby. But that concept I think is fascinating in terms of the changing way that we might start booking things. Oscar Orozco:. Oh, we're seeing it.

On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how pet care is moving online, the best pet services retailers are offering, and how recession-proof the category is. Then, for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank the top four loyalty drivers from pet retailers that other businesses can emulate. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman.

But the plan backfired after influencers started posting their trip videos online, where commenters began speculating that influencers weren鈥檛 shown the whole picture and that Shein was 鈥渦sing them鈥� for damage control.

And you know Walgreens as the pharmacy, you know Amazon for shipping you things in 30 seconds, you know Kroger for buying groceries.

Walmart's low prices omitted an attractive destination for groceries among wealthy households. So, groceries are a sector where I think any level of income will be very happy to cut costs, but the fact that it's made such a dent with wealthy consumers or more affluent consumers, is pretty interesting because it's interesting that that is what has attracted this demographic.

People need that money for groceries, potentially. Yeah. The reasons behind this fascinating. So it'd be worth digging a little bit deeper to figure out why but yeah, a lot of those rates. Overall, it had gone up a bit when you look at just playing any sports. So that's positive. But when you look at people playing sports teams and certain groups of people, it is down.

Many retailers are predicting that consumer spending patterns in 2024 could be similar to 2023鈥攑ulling back on discretionary categories and sometimes essentials like groceries. So far, discount and dollar stores have benefited from tightened consumer spending, but that success isn鈥檛 guaranteed in the new year. Here鈥檚 how three low-price retailers are planning to appeal to consumers and keep sales up in the months ahead.

They're trying to move into grocery and CPG. And I haven't seen the evidence yet that it's working out particularly well. I don't know if consumers are looking at DoorDash and thinking, I'm going to use that for grocery delivery. But they will do it for Gopuff. That's what Gopuff is known for. So why not just buy your way into that market?

You already get discounts on groceries at Whole Foods. I realized that not many companies can launch an everything bundle, but there are a handful that are big and powerful enough that they're going to try and I think that that's what we're staring down the barrel at. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah, interesting.

A lot of digital retail media spending is hand in hand with these more traditional forms of marketing.

Part of that is a result of higher prices for things like groceries that are bringing in consumers making more than $100,000 a year to shop at Walmart for groceries. But while they're there, they might look to other categories that they regularly buy.

This chart here shows Americans preferred grocery store checkout method. This is from last year. Just Walk Out was a distant third place with just 10% versus around 40% of people who said self-checkout with a kiosk or the traditional checkout with a human. The survey was from Progressive Grocer and RIS News.

Jennifer King of Stanford University, she had a slide deck that I was looking at and it discusses dark patterns and manipulative design and in it she was outlining manipulative design in the physical world, grocery stores, and points to a few examples.

Apparel, and though what surprised me and may be a little bit sad too, was groceries is the number three thing people are going to splurge on over the holidays. Paul Verna:. I guess there's no option for using buy now, pay later, and forgetting to pay. Suzy Davidkhanian:. There was. Oh, not the forgetting to pay.

I don't know if this is exactly true, but if it's not, soon enough Instacart will be showing you carrots for your favorite grocery of the year and spinach is number two, stuff like that. Marcus Johnson:. You know what?

On today's episode, we discuss what to make of Amazon's 2% decline in online store sales, how to interpret its advertising service's 19% revenue growth, and why the company is rethinking its Amazon Fresh strategy. "In Other News," we talk about how Pinterest views the future of shoppable video and how malls are resurging. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Andrew Lipsman.

This is also how groceries get delivered, at least in the UK. If Waitrose comes to your door, it's a supermarket, they bring all the items in a plastic crate and they bring them to your door. You take the crate, you put it in your house, you take the things out, you give them the crate back. Now admittedly, you have to be there for that, so you could argue that that's a problem.

And the other thing that goes with this is that for private label, according to supermarket news, around 20% of sales in grocery are from private label. And that grew 11% at outpaced regular eCommerce growth last year, and definitely retail growth last year.