The Roaring 20s
A glance into contextual commerce and the future of the final mile Here in Minneapolis we are now exiting a two hundred hour stretch where the thermometer didn’t reach 0 degrees. So even though we are only 48 days into the new decade, forgive us…
How your digital marketing can circumvent a $15B Grocery Out of Stock problem
CPG’s go to market strategy and digital marketing has undergone quite the transformation over the last decade going from a single channel world to an omni-channel one. In the old world a product was developed and launched, sold into customers, marketed to the masses through…
Surfing the Ecomm Wave
The three things you need to know to shred the gnar So here we are, at the tail end of 2020. The calmer waters of pre-pandemic ecommerce seem like ancient history. If you’re in the CPG ecommerce world, it’s tempting to pat yourself on the…
Introducing Basketful Atlas, An Omni-Shoppable Product Locator
Boosted brand discovery, optimized for omni-channel In our previous article we teased the benefits of a modern day product locator. Over the past few months the team here has been working hard at addressing the inefficiencies that exist in locators currently in market. Today we…
Add to Cart Chutes & Ladders
How you can finish first in bringing brands to basket With a nudge from a global pandemic, ecommerce across consumer product categories continues to balloon as witnessed by promising recent earnings and updates from Walmart and Target. Grocery in particular continues to burgeon, with overall…
The Grocery Ecomm Flywheel: Part III
The Delivery Providers In this final installment of our three part series on the acceleration of online grocery (Part 1=Consumers, Part 2=Retailers), we recap the latest developments occurring across online grocery fulfillment providers. These providers are a critical cog in the ecommerce wheel, powering some…
The Grocery Ecomm Flywheel: Part II
The Retailer Response In Part I we discussed the consumer momentum powering the share growth of online grocery in the 1st half of the year. Today we focus on the equally dramatic retailer responses to COVID-19 behavior shifts that occurred in the weeks and months…
The Grocery Ecomm Flywheel: Part I
2020 has blurred the senses a bit, and it’s easy to forget just how massive the acceleration was in grocery ecommerce that occurred over the last 6 months. Broadly speaking, from January to July, grocery ecomm doubled in size1. This was of course due in…
An Oasis for America’s Food Deserts is right in front of us
49% of Americans have low access to groceries. Grocery delivery can shrink that to 3%. With conversation the last few months centering around the explosion of online grocery and the efforts of the food industry to respond, brands and retailers have been reshaping their digital…
Online Grocery Coverage, Filling the Void
The last three months feels like a lifetime of progression for online grocery. At the beginning of the year, 26% of Americans were using online grocery weekly1. Since then the COVID-19 pandemic has applied differential pressure to the grocery industry, as consumers have flocked to…