E-commerce Grocery Sales Rise, But Quest for Profitability Persists
E-commerce Grocery Sales Rise, But Quest for Profitability Persists
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In the last 18 months, TABS Analytics has completed promotion optimization engagements in: USA, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Guatemala, Australia, India and the Netherlands. The results may or (may not) surprise you...
As executive chairman and founder of TABS Analytics, I sign a lot of papers. But recently, I signed one of the most important papers of my career:
I signed a document to sell TABS Analytics.
We were acquired by a like-minded company, Blacksmith Applications of Boston, Massachusetts.
Shelton, Conn. – August 31, 2020 –TABS Analytics today announced that for the 5th year in row it has earned best-in-class distinctions in the Promotion Optimization Institute’s (POI) 2020 TPx Vendor Panorama report. This year TABS Analytics was recognized in three categories: Post Event Analytics, Dashboard and Data Management.
Shelton, Conn. – August 17, 2020 – Despite more interest in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, eCommerce grocery saw only a slight uptick in sales from new users this year, according to the TABS Analytics Annual Food and Beverage Consumables Study. Overall, online grocery transactions increased 15% year-over-year, as existing buyers made more frequent purchases, and smaller eCommerce retailers saw massive surges in new buyers. Walmart was one of the beneficiaries of the shift to online, as it overtook Amazon in share of transactions for the first time.
Shelton, Conn. – July 13, 2020 – TABS Analytics, a Nielsen Connected Partner, announced today that it is collaborating with Brewers Advisors to launch a powerful software and analysis platform designed specifically for breweries that simplifies the use of Nielsen scan data. TABS Market Insights Connect™ clearly identifies sales problems, opportunities and indicated actions.
When consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands make changes to their packaging, they want to improve perceptions about certain product features, such as taste, health or other trending characteristics. The goal of making these significant and visible changes is typically to enhance brand equity, not to increase sales. But at the same time, you need to be aware that there’s a real possibility the new packaging will harm sales or cause the product to lose shelf presence.
TABS Analytics’ sister company, Decision Insight (DI), has extensive packaging research experience. Read on to learn more about strategies for making packaging research work for your brand.
As we enter 2020, let’s take a look at how some key grocery retailers have performed in 2019 through their first three fiscal quarters. I want to share my thoughts on what I think has worked – and hasn’t worked – for several prominent players. Below are sales and profit results from the top 4 grocery chains in the US plus Walmart Global for comparison (60% of their sales are grocery/consumables) for 2018 and the first three quarters of 2019.
TABS Analytics continues to rank among the top of vendors supporting trade promotion and loyalty programs, according to the Promotion Optimization Institute's 2019 TPx Vendor Panorama report. 2019 marks the 4th year in a row that TABS has been included as a best-in-class vendor. For 2019, TABS was cited with this distinction in two categories: Dashboard and Data Management. POI noted that the company is "highly innovative, shows the insights in very consumable formats, and has deep insights."
The TPx Vendor Panorama was developed to help guide consumer goods companies to successfully execute trade promotions at the headquarters level by identifying vendors’ strengths and weaknesses. The report examines all aspects of trade promotion – also referred to TPx, which includes trade promotion management, optimization, effectiveness and analytics.
TABS Analytics gives you a competitive advantage by simplifying the way you deal with your CPG data and giving you the power to easily extract competitive insights. We’re a technology-enabled analytics firm that’s been serving the consumer packaged goods industry since 1998.
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