5 Ways Grocers are Protecting Their Store Teams Through the Pandemic
Regardless of whether the stores in your chain are 16,000 or 135,000 square feet, keeping daily operations running smoothly is a big challenge under normal circumstances. That challenge is now Mount-Everest-sized due to a pandemic that no one at any level in your organization has experienced or trained for. Necessity is the mother of invention […]
Watch the Throne: Can Wegmans Become King of New York?
Crowds at NikeTown to cop new Jordans. Queues for cancellation tickets to Hamiliton. Lines for cronuts (remember when those were A Thing?). Waiting is the bane of every New Yorker’s existence. So it came as a surprise to the uninitiated when hundreds of ‘Wegmaniacs’ waited in cold, rainy weather in Brooklyn’s remote Navy Yard for […]
Results Not Reports. Why Store Managers Love CB4.
AI is the Lebron James of retail. Both arrived with incredible hype and went on to deliver on sky-high expectations. Retailers are using AI everywhere, from supply chain optimization to shopper analytics. However, after countless conversations with retail operations leaders, we’ve found that most won’t adopt AI (or any new solution) for stores unless they’re […]
The Secret to Localizing Assortment the Easy (CB4) Way
Localizing their assortment is mission-critical to today’s best retailers. Assortment localization, i.e. tailoring a store’s assortment to reflect the demand of the community it serves, has both tangible and intangible benefits. According to a report from Retail Systems Research (RSR), “Merchandising and Pricing 2018,” 59% of retail’s top performing chains say localized assortments are “very […]
The Secret to Successful Supermarket AI Deployment
(Hint: It has Nothing to Do With Technology) Supermarket AI has not only arrived, it’s everywhere. Grocers are already using AI to stock their shelves more efficiently, optimize pricing for products on shelves, and make sure shoppers can easily find the products they want. If you’re a grocer, odds are you’ll be deploying artificial intelligence […]
9 Questions to Ask Before Paying for New Retail Technology
At NRF 2019 Retail’s Big Show, over 900 vendors vied for the attention of the retailers in attendance. Retail executives’ inboxes are filled with sales pitches from technology vendors promising to transform their business. But not all retail technology is worth its weight in gold. In fact, bad retail technology, or simply retail technology that […]
The Future of Grocery Technology: Level Up or Get Left Behind
Business is awash in digital acronyms these days and the grocery industry is no different. AI, AR, VR, ML, DL – or make that artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning and deep learning, to name but a few. The digital age has more than arrived – it’s taken over. But what does all […]
