Packaged Facts: Blog

What’s Next for Amazon: Expanding AmazonFresh Beyond Online Grocery and into Brick-and-Mortar Stores

Integrating AmazonFresh as a free benefit for Prime members is a masterstroke that increases the odds that the AmazonFresh brand will soon be displayed across physical storefronts, where Packaged Facts envisions that click-and-collect and home delivery will be offered for free to Prime members.

by Daniel Granderson
March 25 2019
Amazon
apps
ecommerce
pet products
pet research
pet retail
pet supplies
pet trends

Pet Market Upgrades to Brighter Future

A number of trends will reshape the pet business for years to come.

by Daniel Granderson
March 15 2019
Amazon
beverage
beverage trends
coffee
ecommerce

The Expanding Role of Online and e-Grocers in the U.S. Beverage Market

Beverages accounted for 13% of total online grocery sales in 2018.

by Daniel Granderson
December 17 2018
Amazon
food and beverage
local foods
online grocery shopping
online retail

Food Trend to Watch: Retailers Create Online Marketplaces, Collaborate with Local Producers

The best way for major retailers such as Amazon and Walmart to engage with local producers and independent grocers is to allow them to use their online grocery marketplaces for a fee in the same way they have opened up their regular online marketplaces to other sellers.

by Daniel Granderson
September 26 2018
Amazon
consumer trends
online retail
retail
retailing
Walmart

Can Today’s Amazon Consumer Become Tomorrow’s Walmart Loyalist?

Analysis provided in Packaged Facts' report, "Walmart U.S. Strategies and Shoppers", helps make a strong case in Walmart’s favor.

by Daniel Granderson
March 19 2018
Amazon
cats
dogs
online retail
pet market
pet market research
pet retail

Pet Specialty/Mass-Market Pet Food Floodgates Open

With its virtual marketplace, e-commerce is pounding away at the already cracked wall between pet specialty and mass channels.

A New Grocery Age Not Just for Natural Grocers

The Amazon/Whole Foods marriage marks the tipping point in a shift that is already underway, with the brick-and-mortar store of the future still alive and well but vastly different as a result of ever sophisticated mobile apps and new-generation brick-plus-click logistics including store remodels.

Amazon Online Grocery Sales Surge with Whole Foods Acquisition

Whole Foods’ branded product web sales reached $500,000, after Amazon placed about 2,000 items from Whole Foods’ 365 Everyday Value brand on its site.

Amazon vs. the Pet Products Competition

Online pet product sales are at a tipping point: Packaged Facts estimates online pet product sales accounting for approximately of the total U.S. pet products market.