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Grocery retailers such as Aldi and Sainsbury’s are ramping up their efforts in this category, while specialists Boots and Superdrug have launched online marketplaces and are investing in their in-store beauty propositions.

I just think there are still some customer friction points that we just need to solve through, but it's amazing that it's Instacart doing it because they have a much bigger view on different grocery stores versus when Walmart was doing it and they only know what you've bought from them. Sara Lebow (09:28):. Well, New York Times cooking I think is also a key here.

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For our second story, we're across Europe and Latin America with this one and looking at a new retail media venture between French supermarket Giant Carrefour and advertising group Publicis. Just a couple of weeks ago, the two companies officially launched what they're calling Unlimitail, that just six months after first announcing they were working on the project.

So again, we expect to see an uplift in grocery sales, there might be a boost to hospitality, and you'll also get some people who'll use that extra day off to visit the shops. And finally, you have all of the patriotic memorabilia and souvenirs for the coronation. Again, it's not everyone's bag, not everyone will buy that kind of memorabilia.

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.

Advertisers can use the grocery chain’s first-party data to target consumers with Snap or Story campaigns. Our Take: Snapchat is taking steps to diversify its ad offerings and branch out into adjacent areas like AR. It faces an uphill battle, as do many of its competitors, but it’s well poised to come out the other side of the economic downturn with a solid, and growing, ad business. Pinterest.

And I would move Lego in, not because of the marketing stuff you're talking about, but more in addition to, I would also say I think they're really leaning into partnering with different types of distribution channels, from grocery stores to the airports. There was a new... They're selling new things at Aldi, which I think is very cool.

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.

And it's about how younger consumers are ditching their physical wallets and relying on their digital wallets for everything from going to restaurants and bars to buying groceries and for identification. And the article points out that adoption is much stronger with Gen Z than older generations and also talks about the limitations of relying solely on digital wallets.

As soon as consumers start to tighten their belts because their costs of groceries and other essentials are eating up a bigger share of their wallet, they cut back on basically the expenditures like dining out and going to do things.

The point of the story is that all those creepy weird drones that you see in gigantic suburban supermarkets and big box stores are here to stay and it's only going to get worse. However, I think-. Marcus Johnson:. Oh, good.

Yeah, but next time I get change at the grocery store, I'm just going to drop on the floor and be like, "One second. It's legit. Okay, fair enough." Anyway, today's real topic, The Great Behind the Numbers Takeoff, Health Trends 2024. In today's episode, first in the lead we'll cover health trends for 2024. No in other news today.

You can hang out tomorrow with host Sarah Libo on the Reimagining Retail Show as she speaks with analysts Carina Perkins and Blake Droesch, all about the differences between UK and US grocery.

I've actually had this discussion pretty frequently recently because in the US you have so many different options for water when you go to the supermarket, right? Marcus Johnson:. There's too many. It's ridiculous. Jasmine Enberg:. There's so many. I mean, I kind of like it. And I missed it when I was in Finland for a year and a half because there's ... Marcus Johnson:. Jasmine's like, "One choice.