Month: April 2018

IRI® today announced findings from two recent studies into the shopping attitudes and behaviors — and the emotional drivers — of Generation Z (aged 21 and under), providing manufacturers and retailers valuable insight into how to effectively communicate with this generation of consumers. In partnership with The Family Room LLC, these studies surveyed a cross-generational sample of this emerging population segment and shows that a brand’s authenticity is more important to Gen Z than preceding generations. …

By the end of the month, nearly 60 Target stores in five major cities—Boston, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.—will offer guests in-store, at checkout, the ease of having their store purchases delivered right to their doorstep. …

CHEP, a Brambles company, announced today that its 40×24 inch pooled (shared and reused) half pallets have achieved carbon neutral status. This makes CHEP’s half pallet the first and only CarbonNeutral® certified pooled platform in North America. The announcement came during a retailer-manufacturer session on retail merchandising strategies, featuring executives from a regional supermarket company and CHEP, at the FMI-GMA Trading Partner Alliance (TPA) Supply Chain Conference in Orlando. …