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In fact, Amazon risks falling even further behind Walmart in the online grocery wars: Our forecast expects the latter鈥檚 share of online grocery sales to grow to 26.9% by the end of 2024, while Amazon鈥檚 share will fall to 18.5%.

Another 36% expected to begin shopping in July, which isn鈥檛 surprising given the broad array of July sales events hosted by Amazon, Walmart, Kohl鈥檚, and TikTok Shop. The big takeaway: The average consumer expects to spend $475 on back-to-school shopping this year鈥攁 21.8% jump over last year, per JLL. Even so, they remain focused on value.

So an example would be if you're sitting back and watching shows through your Roku at home and you see an ad for a camping stove that could conceivably have been targeted there using Walmart data and ad spending through Walmart. That's an offsite ad.

Currently, Amazon makes up the lion鈥檚 share of retail media ad spend, but companies like Walmart and Instacart are gaining traction, growing by 42% and 41% this year, respectively. Retail media 1.0: Current state. 鈥淭he 1.0 era is what got us to where we are today, which is, broadly, search advertising and sponsored products,鈥� said Lipsman.

Walmart is the largest retailer to rapidly scale its third-party sales platform, but a slew of others including Macy鈥檚, Kohl鈥檚, The Kroger Co., J.Crew, Michaels, and Lands鈥� End are leaning into the channel with varied approaches. Retail media's play with marketplaces. Retail media will continue to be the fastest-growing segment of digital advertising in the coming years.

The same dynamic explains why Dollar Tree and Dollar General are struggling as Walmart thrives, or why McDonald鈥檚 is stumbling and Chipotle is sprinting ahead. Shoppers are willing to spend, but only if they鈥檙e confident the business they鈥檙e patronizing will deliver good value.

Walmart鈥攖he No. 2 to Amazon among RMNs鈥攊mplemented a second-price auction and search algorithm changes in early June 2022 that drove down CPCs, according to Skai. Other RMNs are similarly innovating to increase the scale, relevance, and ease of use of their platforms, all of which encourage more investment from brands.

Walmart is an example of a obviously massive retailer with deep pockets to invest in this technology. They've been investing in AI for... They're really early adopters, but their generative AI, their LLM platform was still built with some collaboration from OpenAI as well. (13:13):. So I think there's really...

Walmart last year opened a dedicated pet services facility offering veterinary care and dog grooming in an Atlanta suburb. Not just retailers: Several other companies are also carving out niches in the growing market. Specialty food and treat products are ground zero for that enthusiasm.

Walmart has made headlines for higher-income shoppers trading down on groceries. Another strong area is the Walmart+ program, which has grown among younger shoppers who may have less spending power. As of December 2022, 23% of respondents to an Insider Intelligence survey conducted by Bizrate Insights said they subscribed to Walmart+, up from 11% in June.

Retail media is on the rise this year, with Walmart and Instacart growing the fastest. While Amazon鈥檚 ad business is growing slower than other retail media networks, its revenues are higher at $34.59 billion in US ad revenues. Walmart will see a fraction of that at $3.16 billion. Instacart鈥檚 ad revenues will be even lower at $1.12 billion.

It's really getting into CTV, it's putting more screens in stores, which Walmart has a massive audience in stores. Just if you think of the Walmart store as a media channel, which it is, then it has a huge engaged audience. So I'm giving Walmart most likely to make it in media.

Okay, so pivoting from that absolutely massive 40% e-commerce share that Amazon has in the U.S., in a distant, distant second behind Amazon in terms of U.S. e-commerce share is Walmart at about 6%. Walmart is a power player, especially in grocery. Why should we be watching digital grocery in particular with Walmart, and what else does Walmart have going for it in terms of e-commerce? Blake Droesch:.

Our primary research on US online beauty buyers shares insights into the evolution of consumer habits and preferences in one of retail鈥檚 most resilient categories.

We鈥檝e all seen videos of people rushing into Walmart the second the doors open on Black Friday. However, with the surge in ecommerce over the past few years, those mobs have shrunk as shoppers become more dependent on online shopping. Online sales growth was more than three times the growth rate of physical retail (8.8% vs. 2.8%) in the 2023 holiday shopping season, according to 蘑菇AV.

The Target Circle Week coincided with Prime Big Deal Days, so did the Walmart sale, and so there was a lot of head-to-head competition where when you went from site to site you saw pretty much the same deals. And that's something different than particularly last year where the sales were very much staggered throughout October with Target, I think their sales started on October 1st of last year.

Others, like Walmart, Walgreens, and Target, are focused on revamping stores to offer more convenience, both in-store and online.

The context: Since Toys R Us shuttered its stores in 2018, there hasn鈥檛 been a dominant toy retailer as sales in the category have largely been dispersed among mass merchants, including Amazon, Walmart, and Target.

Walmart and Instacart also contribute to retail media鈥檚 share of search ad spend, though their share is smaller. Why retail media search? Advertisers trust it. US advertisers will spend almost $30 billion on retail media search ads this year, and by 2027, that figure will be more than double.

Number two, Walmart, for offering a ton of back to school products under $10. Arielle, why is this one interesting? Arielle Feger (11:30):.

Walmart added this service for Walmart+ members at no extra charge. DoorDash is betting users will opt to pay a small fee for pickups rather than make a trip to drop off returns with UPS or FedEx. Transparency is critical. Costs and value to consumers need to be communicated clearly, especially when return policies are changing. Physical locations offer incentives for in-person returns.

That presents a challenge for smaller retailers that have to determine whether to fully or partially pass the higher supply chain costs to consumers, given that they鈥檙e competing with large importers such as Walmart and Target that have multiyear contracts with carriers to lock in below-spot market prices.

鈥淎尘补锄辞苍, Walmart, Target, and Kroger 鈥� everyone across this entire booming retail media space is posting incredibly strong advertising numbers. That is really driving so much of the incremental growth across our digital ad spend forecast,鈥� our analyst Peter Newman said on an episode of the 鈥淏ehind the Numbers: The Daily鈥� podcast.

The news: Best Buy is taking steps to compel shoppers to buy computers, TVs, and other consumer electronics from it rather than its broad array of online and offline competitors that includes Amazon, Costco, and Walmart.

Today's story is a March 29th story from Business Insider titled Walmart is rolling out a new perk to its $98 annual Walmart Plus membership, early access to a new Oreo flavor. The headline kind of says it all. The new flavor is called Blackout Cake and Walmart is pushing this as a sort of bonus perk to boost subscriptions. Sky, your review of this story in 60 seconds is? Blake Droesch:.