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Walmart Monitors Consumer Appetite; Amazon Bags More Grocery Aisle Space 
Retail // December 08, 2023

As Walmart is observing a reduction in customers’ grocery expenses due to the use of appetite-suppressing medications, Amazon is exploring opportunities with third-party grocery providers to enhance its presence in the grocery market.  These actions come as both retailers, like everyone else, grapple not only...

Online Grocery Customers Spend 32% More Per Purchase Than In-Store
Retail // June 07, 2023

Online grocery may only account for a small fraction of total grocery purchases, but those who have adopted digital channels represent grocers’ biggest spenders. By the Numbers According to data from PYMNTS’ study “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Catching the Coming eCommerce Wave,” created in...

Kroger: Shoppers Continue to Seek Discounts as Inflation Concerns Decline
Retail // June 02, 2023

Grocery shoppers’ anxieties around food price inflation may be easing somewhat, but they continue to pinch pennies wherever possible. In an interview with PYMNTS, Barbara Connors, vice president, strategy and acceleration at 84.51°, Kroger’s retail data science, insights and media company, spoke to how consumers’ grocery...

Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
Amazon // August 28, 2017

Fanny Fern was the highest paid journalist in the country in 1855 because of her “witty and irreverent” tell-it-like-it-is style. Fern — a native of Portland, Maine — was paid $100 a week by The New York Ledger to produce columns about life in America to keep...

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Walmart Monitors Consumer Appetite; Amazon Bags More Grocery Aisle Space 

December 08, 2023
As Walmart is observing a reduction in customers’ grocery expenses due to the use of appetite-suppressing medications, Amazon is exploring opportunities with third-party grocery providers to enhance its presence in the grocery market.  These actions come as both retailers, like everyone else, grapple not only with inflation but also with how it is influencing consumers’ […]