🐾 The Rise of Eco-Friendly Pet Care

March 13, 2025

🗃️ What’s Shaping the Shelves?

AD Retail Media is revolutionizing in-store advertising through its partnership with Inmar Intelligence. The collaboration aims to enhance how brands engage with shoppers inside retail locations by leveraging real-time data and AI-driven insights. This initiative allows retailers to deliver targeted messaging on digital screens and optimize promotional campaigns based on consumer behavior. Read more.

🧙 Retail Masterclass

The creator economy is reshaping retail, with social media influencers driving direct sales through personalized content. This Retail TouchPoints podcast explores how brands are collaborating with creators to develop unique shopping experiences. .

💡 An Everyday Market Hack

Retailers can reduce stockouts and excess inventory by using AI-powered analytics to predict demand at different locations. By analyzing purchasing patterns and external factors such as weather and local events, businesses can place products more strategically, ensuring they are available when and where customers need them.

🧐 Shopper Insights

Burlington Stores is forecasting steady sales growth of 6–8% in fiscal year 2025, driven by its value-oriented business model. The company attributes its success to strategic inventory management, cost control measures, and an expansion strategy targeting new locations.

Retail Innovation

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet is acquiring 40 store leases from Big Lots as the latter navigates Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The deal, announced on Feb. 27, involves purchasing the locations from liquidation firm Gordon Brothers, pending final bankruptcy court approval. With this latest acquisition, Ollie’s has now secured a total of 63 former Big Lots stores, reinforcing its expansion strategy in the discount retail space.

Retailers are introducing biodegradable pet waste bags, organic pet food, and sustainable grooming supplies. Consumers are increasingly prioritizing environmentally friendly choices, and brands that align with these values are seeing strong customer loyalty.

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