Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/4/13: Super Bowl Ads – Bud wins Ad Meter; Ram Trucks wins Hulu

  “Budweiser’s Clydesdale wins Ad Meter by a nose” by Bruce Horovitz at USA Today.  “Anheuser-Busch climbed back into the saddle with the Super Bowl’s top commercial — a heart-tugging tale of the bond between a trainer and the Budweiser Clydesdale he raised.But it was a horse race.  This was the Super Bowl when ads […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/1/13: Union backs off Wmart protests; Costco loves Pepsi and GM

  “Lowe’s exec: Mobile represents 20% of Web traffic” by Lauren Johnson at Mobile  Commerce Daily.  “A Lowe’s executive at the 2013 Mobile Marketing Association Forum San Francisco said that mobile represents 20 percent of the company’s Web traffic, showing how the medium is increasingly becoming a bigger priority.  During the “Mobile and retail: How […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/31/13: Amazon’s growth looks like Walmart’s; Costco in Australia

  “Tupperware CEO: Our Products Are Just Too Classy For America’s “Walmart Market”” by Mary Beth Quirk at The Consumerist.  “You think you’re doing Tupperware a favor by sloshing your leftover peasant fare into its plastic receptacles? Ha! Far from it. The company’s CEO says the plastic containers are just too classy to really hit […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/30/13: Apple trademarks its stores; Amazon sales jump

  “Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $21.27 Billion”  “Net sales increased 22% to $21.27 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $17.43 billion in fourth quarter 2011. Excluding the $178 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales grew 23% compared with fourth quarter 2011. […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/29/13: Home Depot’s CEO: “A third of all retailers will be wiped out”

  “Home Depot CEO: Internet biggest challenge” by Jonathan Copsey at North Fulton.  “Blake spoke Jan. 24 to members of the Roswell Rotary Club about his company and how he saw the coming years…The most significant challenge facing the company, he said, was the threat of losing sales to Internet companies…”Retail is a detail-oriented business,” […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/28/12: Target Announces Canada Brands; Shoppercetion

  “How Walmart and Heineken Will Use Shoppercetion to Put Your In-store Experience in Context” by Shel Israel at Forbes.  “Retailers are installing 3D sensors directly over the area where customers stand in front of a retail store section. Let’s assume that its breakfast cereals. The sensors will see when a shopper picks up a […]