Safeway Aims To Gobble Up Thanksgiving Market Share
Friday, October 7th, 2011I started noticing Safeway’s Thanksgiving television ads while watching Sunday NFL football back on September 22nd and thought it was innovative for the chain to try to “own” an important family eating event, second only to Christmas – I imagine. It is a pretty good fit with the Safeway brand, and the television ads consist [...]
Target Store List Gets A Little Clearer – And Muddier
Friday, September 23rd, 2011On Friday, Target announced the final list of 84 Zellers leases that they would purchase from HBC. These locations are in addition to the 105 stores announced back in May and the one purpose built store slated for Toronto that was announced in June. However, the story is more complicated. Included in the 84 stores [...]
Cross Border Price Audit: Costco / Walmart
Thursday, September 8th, 2011There has been a lot of attention paid to the issue of cross-border price differences lately, which appears to be triggered by the opening of J. Crew’s operation in Canada which had prices higher here than in their US stores. As outlined in a recent Globe & Mail article, J. Crew backtracked after the consumer [...]
The Future Of Retailer-Supplier Data Sharing
Friday, July 22nd, 2011The big news out of the US this week is the announcement that Walmart will start sharing scan data with AC Nielsen for the first time in a very long time. According to an article in Retailing Today, the deal between Nielsen and Walmart, was negotiated by Cindy Davis – Walmart’s EVP of Global Customer [...]
SINS Market Visit Report: Walmart Small Store Formats
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011Walmart Canada has announced it will start rolling out a smaller format store called “Urban 90” designed to be build on about half the land of a traditional Walmart Canada location. What will Urban 90 look like? We don’t really know at this point but our thought is that it will take a lot of [...]
Updates: SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review
Friday, May 20th, 2011We are pleased to announce that updates are now available for 16 Canadian Retailers in our SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review. In this popular report we feature 23 of the largest publically traded retailers in Canada in concise one-page snapshots which highlight the key achievements over the past year and a glimpse at their [...]
Has Zellers Goose Finally Been Cooked?
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011Reports are circulating that the US real estate magnate that owns Hudson’s Bay Trading Co., is in talks with several US chains to unload its Zellers properties. This chain has been the focus of more rumors and speculation over the past decade than any other Canadian chain. It definitely comes as no surprise that Zellers [...]
SINS E-Newsletter – Top 10 CPG /Retail Stories of 2010
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010Well, with the exception of a few more days, 2010 is officially in the books and it definitely has been a year with plenty of interesting developments. Since we launched our weekly e-newsletter in February, the response has been phenomenal and we are happy that we are adding value to our retailer and supplier subscribers. [...]
Wal-mart & P&G Take Collaboration To The Next Level
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Last Saturday, my wife and I sat down to watch a little bit of television on a gray and rainy night with not much hope of finding new content in the depths of mid-summer. We settled on a “new to us” movie called “Secrets of the Mountain” on NBC – which turned out to be [...]
More Bad News for #3 and #4 Brands
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Our very first post on this blog highlighted an Ad Age article about Wal-mart’s move in the US to eliminate all but one brand of lunchbags (Ziploc), in favor of creating space and sales opportunity for their PL brand – Great Value. The idea was that reducing choice would actually increase sales in the category, [...]
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