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IGD Predicts Five Trends Set to Shape Retail In 2019

December 7, 2018

Innovative advances in technology, coupled with seamless in-store shopping experiences, are among the IGD’s top predictions for 2019’s global retail trends: Data, and particularly customer data, will offer more personalized […]

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Here Are the Latest Retail Trends in Europe

July 13, 2018

According to the latest forecasts, the European grocery retail market will add EUR377.6bn in sales to reach EUR2.3tn by 2022, with growth in the region driven by the dynamic economies […]

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Nielsen: Convenience Needs to Become a Mindset

April 5, 2018

Convenience doesn’t have to be just a store format. For consumers, convenience stores often represent a means to a need state, but operators should view “convenience” as a mindset rather […]

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Retailer Iceland to Go Plastic-free

February 15, 2018

Iceland, the UK’s leading frozen food specialist, is committing to become the first major retailer globally to eliminate plastic packaging from all of its own brand products by the end […]

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Frozen Food Retail Growth Accelerates

January 4, 2018

The frozen food retail sector finished the year on a high maintaining the impressive growth that saw it exceed the GBP6bn milestone for the first time ever in 2017. Statistics from […]

Global Retail Trend Predictions For 2018
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Global Retail Trend Predictions For 2018

December 5, 2017

The top five trends expected to shape the global retail market over the next 12 months have been unveiled by IGD, the international grocery research organization. The predictions, identified by […]

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Shopper Insight: Cashless Is King

October 5, 2017

Toby Pickard, IGD’s Senior Innovations and Trends Analyst, gives an overview of the latest developments in cashless retailing and identifies a number of key trends and disruptors to which retailers […]

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Frozen Retail Market Grows 3%

July 27, 2017

The latest frozen food retail statistics have shown that frozen food continues to excel with value growth across almost every category in the 52 weeks to 18th June 2017. The […]

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UK’s Iceland Records Strong Growth

March 9, 2017

Supermarket chain Iceland has recorded “ahead of the market” growth, with sales up 8.8%. Grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks ending 26 February 2017, show supermarket […]

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