Why shoppers will want drone delivery
Like the advent of barcodes and scanning in the 70’s, retail historians will look back at this decade as the one when drones entered the mainstream as an integral component of the supply chain.
Sprouts Farmers Market stores are in for some merchandising, marketing and supply chain changes following the appointment of Jack Sinclair as CEO.
Women account for 85 percent of all consumer purchases, but not even 30 percent of today’s retail industry leaders are women.
Hand in hand with retail’s struggle to retain female employees, is the industry’s challenge to respond to its evolving shopper demands.
Anheuser-Busch InBev may not be a classic technology company, but it is innovating at the pace of a digital start-up and bringing surprising disruption to the beer and beverage industry.
Retailers have embraced the gig economy by investing in technology, automating tasks and relying on crowdsourced labor. The result is a new labor dynamic and productivity imperative for retailers coping with increased wages.
Slow growing consumer goods companies have been in the crosshairs of activists investors. Just ask Campbell Soup Company where Third Point got its wish with two board appointees.
