Automated “Order by Voice” Is The Next Big Thing for Restaurants
64% of Americans Interested in Ordering Food Via Voice Assistant.The MDR Group of Overland Park,...
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(PDF) RIAA - 2019 Mid-Year Music Industry Revenue Report
Total revenues grew 18% to $5.4 billion in the first half of 2019.The Recording Industry Associat...
How to Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace
To differentiate your brand, let a customer focus guide your strategy and operations.Competition...
This Startup is Ditching Plastic Waste by Bringing the Refills to You
Chilean startup Algramo initially used vending machines to sell refills of staple goods in stores...
Major Food Brands Debut Pick-Up Only Concepts
As fully explored in Cassandra’s The Retail Exchange, the way young consumers shop is becoming p...
Walmart's Direct-to-Fridge Delivery Service Now Available - Walmart...
Walmart will now put groceries right in your fridge, starting in 3 cities Tuesday.- InHome grocer...
(PDF) BCG - Global Payments 2019 : Tapping into Pockets of Growth
Lifted by the global shift away from cash, buoyed by the uptake of electronic transactions, and a...
Where the Most Groceries Are Bought Online
Amazon, with its online food delivery service Fresh, and other online vendors of fast moving cons...
(Infographic) The Big Five : Largest Acquisitions by Tech Company
The Big Five tech giants, or “FAAMG”—Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google (Alphabet)...
Chinese Designers Try Predictive Trend Analysis On For Size
Predictive trend-spotting is already a fast-growing area of investment for many major brands and...
Shipping Container-Based Market Can be Moved When Required
Stackt is located on a site in Toronto that's due to be converted to a park in the future.Shippin...
Cosmetics Companies are Leveraging AI to Alter the Face of Beauty -...
Adoption of technology by beauty and personal care companies is still at a nascent stage not just...
(PDF) Mckinsey - China Digital Consumer Trends in 2019
New research from a survey of 4,300 Chinese consumers suggests a path forward for brands and mark...
New Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Toilet Paper Brands Proliferate
As fully explored in Cassandra’s macrotrend The Direct Connection, direct-to-consumer brands (or...
(PDF) NRF - Consumer View Summer 2019 : The Robot in the Room
A bad exaConsumers’ choices in terms of where, how and why they buy are redefining retail and cr...
(Patent) Walmart Plans for Drone Delivery, Others Tackle Faster Pic...
Walmart filed two patents this week looking at drone delivery, specifically dealing with how to s...
Piper Jaffray's Generation Z Survey
Piper Jaffray Completes 38th Semi-Annual Generation Z Survey of 9,500 U.S. Teens.- Overall teen...
Ex-Amazon, Googler Reveal New Grocery Tech Startup Powered by Smart...
Veeve, founded by former Amazon and Google employees, want to bring the Amazon Go concept to the...
Idle Robocar Riders Will Be Sitting Retail Targets
Looking ahead to full, self-driving vehicles the question comes up, what to do with all that idle...
Top Brands Deploy Augmented Reality in Their Marketing
The use of augmented reality (or AR) continues to grow as brands take a more interactive approach...
Online Assortment will Drive Significant Growth of Online Edible Gr...
Amazon, Walmart will defend positions as the world's largest online retailers of edible grocery,...
(Infographic) Visualizing Social Media Use by Generation
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population is plugged into the matrix, with over 4.4 billion in...
Global Ad Spending Is Up, But You Can't Buy Loyalty in CPG
America is responsible for nearly half (48%) of the world’s advertising spending. This is follow...
Half-Mouth Toothbrush is Claimed to Clean All Your Teeth within 20...
Developed by Sonicare's former Director of Engineering. Flawlessly brush your teeth in 20 seconds...
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Steps Down as Chairman
Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999 to connect Chinese exporters to American re...
How Do Shoppers Bring Digital into Physical Stores ?
About four in ten shoppers report checking sales and promotions available to them on a retailer’...
(Infographic) Retail Spending Over Time by Vertical and Region
Just 14% of retail spend goes to apparel and footwear in America, but it accounts for 32% in Asia...
Amazon Orders 100,000 Electric Delivery Vans From the Tesla Rival R...
The first electric van will be an Amazon exclusive, and will help reduce the retailer's carbon fo...
Machine Learning Dominates AI Use for Retailers
Crystals are a mainstay in the toolkit of any spiritually woke millennial. You’ll find them litt...
Simbe Robotics Raises $26M for Autonomous Inventory Robots
Robots are coming for the grocery aisle, and that’s because they promise to save storeowners inv...
Mobile Payment Usage Is Growing, but Cash and Cards Still Have Thei...
Consumers today have more payment options than ever. Mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay, Goo...
Syte Snaps Up $21.5M for Its Smartphone-Based Visual Search Engine...
Visual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: If...
