DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Is now the right or wrong time for grocery stores to start reopening food bars? Do you see retailers changing how they operate self-serve food bars once they are able to reopen them? Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Braintrust: If it is, then you Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Should suppliers be expected to cover some of the retailers’ costs for overhauling in-store and digital operations? What will be the net effect of these upfront fees on vendors, retailers and consumers? Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Braintrust: They truly do need each other Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Has the pandemic changed how retailers source new products? Do you see Instagram and other social media sites becoming more important in retailer searches for new products? Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Braintrust: The pandemic has accelerated how retailers source new products but the Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Do you see most corporate workers returning to offices as the pandemic eases, continuing to work remotely or shifting to a hybrid set-up? What might retail’s corporate staff lose with a strong shift to remote working following the pandemic? Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What do you see as the biggest internal and external challenges facing retail pharmacies when it comes to immunizing large numbers of people against COVID-19? Do you think that pharmacies have a significant role to play in bringing COVID-19 vaccines to underserved areas or are other paths of Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Which commercials from this year’s Super Bowl broadcast stood out for you for the most? Which one did you think was the best? Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Braintrust: With so many spots being quite a mess in terms of what they wanted to Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Is Amazon’s inventiveness the single key feature that has set it apart from other retailers and consumer-facing brands over the past 20+ years? Do you expect the company’s commitment and track record of doing “crazy things” and making “them normal” to continue with Andy Jassy as Amazon CEO? Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Why do you think Americans have been turning to small CPG brands in greater numbers in recent years? Do you expect this to continue and how will it affect how mass merchandisers, supermarkets, warehouse clubs, convenience and dollar stores make merchandise, space and other business related decisions about Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What do you think of the decision by Budweiser to skip the Super Bowl and reallocate advertising funds to COVID-19 vaccination communication efforts instead? How do you think commercials produced for this year’s game are likely to change, if at all, from those that appeared during previous broadcasts? Read more…
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: How likely are compensation offers like those from Dollar General and Trader Joe’s to raise COVID-19 vaccine compliance among workers? How should retailers manage employees who refuse to be immunized? Do you think the American Rescue Plan, if enacted as proposed, will prove a boost for the retailing Read more…