Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/25/13: Acosta Partners for Walmart Demos | Amazon the Ad Giant Stirs

    “Acosta Partners for Wal-Mart Demos” at Supermarket News.  “Acosta Sales & Marketing here said its integrated marketing division has formed a partnership with Out Front Marketing to provide custom experiential marketing for products outside Wal-Mart stores…Out Front Marketing creates and executes experiential solutions and events at Wal-Mart parking lots and store exteriors. The […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/24/13: Walmart’s Vegetable Battle | Costco’s Free Lunch | Top Online Coupon Sites

  “Wal-Mart Vs. Amazon: World’s Biggest E-Commerce Battle Could Boil Down To Vegetables” by Clare O’Connor at Forbes.  “What else can Wal-Mart possibly do to win the web? Nielsen’s Todd Hale has one answer. “E-commerce is growing at 11% a year, but sales for consumer packaged goods online — food, groceries, everyday items — are […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/23/13: Walmart Releases Shareholder Materials | New Internet Tax on Fast Track

    “DIY chain Menards bets bigger is better” by Karen Dybis at The Detroit News.  “According to marketing-research firm IBISWorld Inc., Home Depot and Lowe’s accounted for about 73.4 percent of industry revenue in 2012, making home improvement a highly concentrated industry.  IBISWorld estimates that Menards generated revenue of $7.6 billion during 2012, accounting […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/22/13: Amazon’s Russian Offensive | Kids Increasingly Make Buying Decisions

  “The Store Is Media And Media Is The Store” by Doug Stephen at Retail Prophet.  “You see, what’s actually evolving is a new and far more complex role for the store, and online brands like Google, Bonobos and Warby Parker are affirming it, as they each embark on creating their own, branded, physical stores. […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/19/13: Food Lion Takes Price Battle to Walmart | New Geotargeted Promoted Tweets

  “Twitter Lets Advertisers Target Keywords In Tweets – But It’s Still No Google” by Robert Hof at Forbes.   Here’s how Twitter describes the way it will work: For example: let’s say a user tweets about enjoying the latest album from their favorite band, and it so happens that band is due to play […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/18/13: Orch. Supply loses fight vs. H. Depot; IRI’s top CPG brands

  “Orchard Supply Loses Fight Against Home Depot” at Courthouse News Service.  “A California hardware chain cannot pursue claims that Home Depot’s exclusive supplier deals with power-tool manufacturers illegally restrained trade, a federal judge ruled…Orchard sought to hold Home Depot, Milwaukee Electric Tool and Makita liable for tortious interference as well as violations of the […]