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While the company would still trail Walmart, Amazon, and Costco in terms of grocery market share, its expanded footprint would give it a huge in-store retail media advantage. That said, given the weight of public opinion against the deal and vocal opposition from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, it seems increasingly unlikely the merger will take place.

This is where I'll do a shameless plug for the Costco episode that we did a few weeks ago with Susie and Zach where we talked more about Costco and more about their hot dogs.

We expect Carvana鈥檚 sales to continue to grow and its share to surpass Best Buy and Costco in 2024 to reach the No. 7 slot. Lowe鈥檚 will maintain its share as Wayfair falters. The home improvement retailer will solidify its position in the No. 12 slot in 2024, while struggling furniture retailer Wayfair loses share and falls to No. 13. Already-dominant Amazon will gain most market share.

Costco Wholesale tested curbside pickup in 2021 but ultimately decided not to move forward. And Kohl鈥檚 recently discontinued its curbside option, instead focusing on automated in-store pickup.

Its share of recent digital grocery buyers is similar to Instacart鈥檚 and larger than those of leading US grocery chains like Costco Wholesale and The Kroger Co. Amazon Fresh also has a larger online audience than Whole Foods Market. The most popular method of ordering grocery products from Amazon is via the core Amazon site, using ship-to-home fulfillment.

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Retail media will make huge gains this year in Canada. Our first-ever forecast for retail media ad spending in Canada and our joint survey of ad buyers (conducted with IAB Canada) highlight the latest developments.

And then of course, we go into Costco and spend a lot more on things we didn't know we needed and then we get a hot dog and pizza and feel better about it all because we're saving so much on that. Sara Lebow:. Love the Costco hotdogs. You're saying that your dog food, switching to private label alone paid for your Costco membership? Sky Canaves:. Yeah. I think we save about $30 a month. Sara Lebow:.

Costco Wholesale also benefited from this shift, gaining younger shoppers as they moved out of cities, he said. 4. Consider how virtual work impacts shopping. While people have returned to the office, schedules have fundamentally shifted from pre-pandemic, Chernofsky said. Retailers can tap into those shifts by altering marketing messages to capture changing shopping patterns.

蘑菇AV a quarter (24%) of adults belong to Walmart+, followed by Costco Wholesale鈥檚 membership program (23%) and Sam鈥檚 Club (21%.). Over a fifth (21%) of consumers don鈥檛 belong to any of the membership programs listed, suggesting there鈥檚 lots of room for growth. 3. Retail media networks can use data to enhance campaign measurement and attribution.

The challenge: Target is entering a highly competitive market with many retail membership programs, from Costco and Best Buy to Instacart and Uber. Amazon Prime is the leader, with 97.2 million US households holding a membership in 2024, per our forecast.

Despite its efforts to compete with Amazon, it still makes up only 1.5% of total US paid retail membership fee revenues, trailing behind Sam鈥檚 Club and Costco. 4. Search is one area where Walmart is overtaking Amazon. US consumers are increasingly turning to Walmart.com to start their online shopping searches, while Amazon, search engines, and Facebook are losing share, according to Jungle Scout.

Ulta Beauty鈥檚 focus on the in-store experience has helped the retailer consistently outpace Costco Wholesale, Five Below, T.J.Maxx, and Marshalls in monthly visits from January to April 2023, per Placer.ai.

So this is a tough one, because it has to be a retailer, again, in our top 15 that we know has the ability to do better to fill the voids, and so I went with Costco. As Blake said, we had this benchmark that studied retailer apps. Costco came in last, but it is not because they are not trying, it's because of the way that their business model is set up, so a lot of the features that we looked at.

And Costco and other big box retailers have been successful in their very simple but very effective framework, and Amazon Fresh really needs to find that. Sara Lebow:. So to you, the Costco hot dog of Amazon Fresh is a seamless omnichannel experience? Blake Droesch:. Or Krispy Kreme. Sara Lebow:. Or Krispy Kreme, either works. Blake Droesch:. Take your pick. Sara Lebow:.

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Discount warehouses (Costco Wholesale). Grocers (The Kroger Co.). Department stores (Macy鈥檚). Category specialists (The Home Depot). Delivery services that support retailers (Instacart). Retail media鈥檚 scope is expanding as networks move further into video and CTV. While most spending is tied to performance-driven product searches on retail properties, a growing percentage consists of off-site ads.

People get a Costco membership to go and buy Kirkland. And I think for some people the brand is so huge and the packaging is kind of subtle, but still people don't realize it's the private label of Costco. So that's the one we identified as one of those go-to brands that people go out of their way to purchase. 2021 fiscal year Kirkland brand, $58 billion. Sara Lebow:. Wow. Zak Stambor:. Yeah.

Yeah, so I insisted that we go to Sam's Club instead of Costco, specifically because of Scan and Go, we could get in and out quickly when the lines and everyone was going crazy.

We talked on the Costco episode about how I'm still using my Costco TV, so this might not be the season for really expensive holiday gifts. But we see food and beverage holiday sales increase by 8%. We're seeing health and personal care sales increase by 6%. That's all according to our forecast. Can you tell me more about which categories you both are watching this holiday season?

And when they're indulging, they're probably buying them in bulk to save money from a Costco, Target or Walmart. And there's the typical mother knows best adage of, we've got plenty of food at home, why do we need to stop off at the convenience store for a pack of Oreos? And that's a big thing. That's a big part of it.

Or it could be those Costco savings in bulk that you have to be a Costco member and the private label products as well, that people want to be a member to get those products or you get some discount like with subscription box programs where you continue to buy, you kind of subscribe and save. Suzy Davidkhanian:.

Costco another one. Suzy Davidkhanian (17:10):. Yes. The equivalent for Apple is the Genius Bar. Do you need a place to sit down in that white well modern designed space to have them come and help you? No, you could probably go stand in the back and do something and then move on with your life. But they have this design aesthetic that makes it feel so much more luxurious, though it's a service.

I was in the store with a Gen Z friend the other day, we were at Costco, and she pointed out that the little asterisk on the price tag meant that it was going to be moved out soon. And so she was like, "Wait another two weeks and the price will drop. So we'll come back then." And she was so savvy about it, and I'd never heard of that. Sara Lebow (14:11):. Yeah.