Retail News Insider

For years, experts have been predicting that mobile wallets—the ability to pay with the swipe of your cell phone—will be the next big thing. But for nearly just as long, they remained largely a novelty, or sometimes even a nuisance. Now their time has finally come. Mainstream mobile wallet solutions that consumers actually want to use—and retailers can actually synchronize with their systems—are finally here. And they’re set to become even more popular than many retailers may be ready for.

More and more shoppers are focused not only on how food tastes, but how it can improve their health and the way they feel. March is National Nutrition Month—and the perfect time to feature healthy choices for shoppers.

Supervisor/Lead Advisor Nia Zimmer is the self-proclaimed “Singing Sample Lady,” which perfectly captures her light, fun—and highly successful—approach to demonstration events.

When you’re a brand with multiple locations, one of the keys to capturing and retaining consumer loyalty is delivering a consistent, quality experience. Consumers want to know that when they see your name on a storefront, they can go inside and get the same great product quality, service and overall experience they’ve come to expect […]

Once demonized as a source of unhealthy saturated fat, coconut has seen an impressive resurgence in the last five years. From coconut water to oil to chips, consumers now seem ready to snatch up nearly anything with coconut in its name. According to Packaged Facts, coconut water alone netted over $100 million in 2012. And […]

Brett Barcelona, President and General Manager Retail Services Accountability in Action We all spend time at the beginning of each year defining the results we need to achieve in the year ahead. Those goals and related action plans, if executed successfully, ultimately lead to the realization of the strategy we are pursuing. We are well […]

In the five years Retail News Insider has been in production, we’ve covered a lot of up-and-coming trends. Some have become part of the mainstream, some have fallen flat and some, it turns out, we had to wait just a little longer to see them really take off. That’s what seems to be the case […]