Summary: Customer trends are constantly changing, making it important to make the best buying decisions for your store. By paying attention to trends, using your stores' data effectively, and using automation, you can optimize your decision-making. Use IT...

Major retailers have been offering grocery delivery for a few years now, with Amazon and Walmart being just a couple of examples. But some retailers are taking it a step further by offering driverless car grocery delivery. How does this work, and what are the...

With the surging popularity of fidget spinner toys, grocers can now capitalize on the explosive trend by offering organic cage-free fidget spinners in their stores! Okay, not really...but food trends can change as quickly as toy trends do and grocers must stay up to...

Grocers Get Ready for Fourth of July, is one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year for grocers. Crowds are a common feature of Independence Day weekend due to people stocking up on food for picnics and barbecues. Grocers Get Ready for Fourth of July is one of the busiest times of the year for grocery stores. With people stocking up for barbeques and picnics, crowds are a staple of Independence Day weekend.

Many grocery stores these days have adopted self-checkout stands to help speed up and enhance customers' shopping experiences. Self-checkout stands certainly benefits the customers, but perhaps more than the company would like them to. A new wave of self-checkout...

Many retailers’ years are made or broken during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and while these spikes of activity don’t hold as true for grocers (people need to eat, right?) it’s still pretty clear that seasonal products are key to our market. After all, is...

In recent weeks I have been trying to get my head around how to really and truly employ social media to effectively promote grocery stores specifically. There are a lot of “Social Media Scientists”, “Marketing Guru’s”, and “Social Expert’s” on the web but I’ve found that none of them say anything that is related directly with how to market grocery stores. I’ve touched on this before in a previous blog, but I would like to draw from some very helpful statistical data that I came across earlier this week at The Science of Social Media webinar.

SuperMarket Sweep TV show uses IT Retail POS

How many of you hate having to push your grocery cart around the store while you look for the items on your grocery list? I don't mind, but I know that some people have trouble doing these tasks. That's why Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International...

1. The Cloud is Everywhere Most of us are aware that the cloud is all around us and has a ton of benefits. Salesforce put together a comprehensive list of 12 benefits of the cloud. In short, the cloud has seeped into every facet of our lives. Our phones are backed up...