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How Brands Can Achieve Shopper Loyalty: It’s All About Caring

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The food and beverage industry, all CPG for that matter, faces trust issues in 2025, and it presents competitive risks for national brands. WSL shopper surveys show that most consumers feel manufacturers care less about quality now than they used to. Shrinkflation and higher prices add to trust issues. Here’s how we can help. Big-Brand ... Read more

4 Households, 9 Channels: The ‘New’ Population Shopping Path

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Today’s average household is leaning toward a new population of Hispanics, Boomers, multigenerational dwellers and singles. What retail channels do these demographic segments prefer to shop, and which retail brands? We dug into our 2024 How America Shops® population survey to find out. Are You Merchandising for These New Consumer Households? Forget about the “nuclear” ... Read more

Millions of Shoppers Take Diet Drugs. What’s In Their Shopping Carts?

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By 2030, an estimated 15 million people are expected to be using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. We wanted to know: What opportunities does this present for food retailers and brands? If people on weight-loss programs buy less food, how do they compensate for nutrition? We’re asking users of weight-loss programs how changes in diet ... Read more

If You Can’t Make It Cheaper, Then How About Easier?

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More than eight in 10 shoppers prioritize price over convenience when choosing where to shop, our How America Shops® research shows. So how do they choose where to shop when prices are high everywhere? Ease could provide that competitive advantage, but shoppers tell us retailers have to get better at it. When All Prices Are ... Read more

Shoppers are Buying More Store Brands, But Brands are Muddy and May Not Know It!

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Private label goods, or store brands, have become so sophisticated in packaging and quality that shoppers might not even recognize they’re store-exclusive. As our How America Shop® research into rising prices continues, we find up to 45% of shoppers are now buying more of these store labels. Are national brands taking this brand “muddying” seriously ... Read more
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