Archive for April, 2011
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011Tweet
Extreme Couponing: Why Sales & Marketing Need To Better Coordinate Discounts
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Tweet American specialty cable channel TLC started reruns this week of “Extreme Couponing” which highlights the lifestyle and couponing tactics of shoppers who dedicate huge amounts of time and resources to using supermarket coupons to deliver huge savings (up to 98%) for their family. It is intriguing television, but for those of us in the [...]
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 21, 2011
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Tweet
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 15, 2011
Saturday, April 16th, 2011Tweet
SDM’s Confusing Private Label Food Offering
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Tweet Last week in my mailbox I received a SDM flyer that included a four-page insert for grocery items which are featured in our local neighborhood store. Everybody and their dog is getting into food these days (including Canadian Tire) and I wanted to see just how SDM was highlighting food in their large format [...]
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 8, 2011
Friday, April 8th, 2011Tweet
Target Looks To Reach $6 Billion in Canadian Sales
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Tweet Reuters reported this week that Target will be looking to achieve $6 billion in turnover at its Canadian operations as it looks to grow to a $100 billion company in six or seven years time. Target CFO Douglas Scovanner also seemed to give the first indication that the store count in Canada could reach [...]
Coconut Water – Canada’s Next Big Food Product?
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Tweet We are always on the look-out for new ad exciting products at retail around the world and assessing them for their potential in the Canadian market. In recent visits in Europe and the United States we have found that coconut water based drinks to be an emerging new product category that has some interesting [...]
SINS Flashback: SDM TV Commercial 1987
Monday, April 4th, 2011Tweet
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 1, 2011
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011Tweet
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