April 2011
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011Extreme Couponing: Why Sales & Marketing Need To Better Coordinate Discounts
Friday, April 22nd, 2011American 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 CPG [...]
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 21, 2011
Friday, April 22nd, 2011SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 15, 2011
Saturday, April 16th, 2011SDM’s Confusing Private Label Food Offering
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Last 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 stores. [...]
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending April 8, 2011
Friday, April 8th, 2011Target Looks To Reach $6 Billion in Canadian Sales
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Reuters 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 up [...]
Coconut Water – Canada’s Next Big Food Product?
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011We 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 potential [...]
