Panic buying at supermarkets peaked in mid-March as the pandemic turned shoppers into hoarders emptying shelves of toilet paper, disinfectant wipes and paper towels. But Walmart, which gets more than half its U.S. revenue from grocery sales, didn’t benefit much from the early buying as...
For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. An awful lot...
Hoarding is never pretty, and rationing goods in response to hoarding is never pretty either. The eventual impact to manufacturers and retailers’ bottom lines? Well, that may be less that picturesque, too, if the laws of economics, supply and demand hold up. (And they will.)...
Despite policy banning coronavirus ads, Google is still showing them. The ads, including ones advertising hand sanitizers, gloves, masks and other such products, are hard to ban because of their prevalence. Google showed many of them as recently as Wednesday afternoon, in spite of the...
April 13, 2020
For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. An awful lot of other things have changed all around that core, however. […]
March 16, 2020
Hoarding is never pretty, and rationing goods in response to hoarding is never pretty either. The eventual impact to manufacturers and retailers’ bottom lines? Well, that may be less that...
May 18, 2020
Panic buying at supermarkets peaked in mid-March as the pandemic turned shoppers into hoarders emptying shelves of toilet paper, disinfectant wipes and paper towels. But Walmart, which gets more than half its U.S. revenue from grocery sales, didn’t benefit much from the early buying as shoppers went elsewhere, according to a Reuters analysis of U.S. […]
March 06, 2020
Despite policy banning coronavirus ads, Google is still showing them. The ads, including ones advertising hand sanitizers, gloves, masks and other such products, are hard to ban because of their...
