- 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.
- by Daniel Granderson
- October 2 2017
- Amazon
- food and beverage
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- Trader Joe’s
- Whole Foods
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.
- by Noah Miller
- September 13 2017
- Amazon
- food retail
- grocery shopping
- natural foods
- Whole Foods
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.
- by Noah Miller
- September 11 2017
- Amazon
- pet food
- pet market
- pet products
- pet supplies
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.
- by Daniel Granderson
- August 22 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food and beverage
- food retail
- online retail
- Whole Foods
Whole Foods and the Transformation of Amazon Fresh
Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods should push product choices higher in relatively short order. And that is just the beginning.
- by Noah Miller
- June 19 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food retail
- food retailing
- groceries
- grocery shopping
- Whole Foods
With Whole Foods, Amazon Goes for the Grocery Gold
Even before the acquisition, it was hard to escape the sense that time was on Amazon’s side rather than Walmart’s, especially in terms of growth.
- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- November 12 2014
- Walmart
- Amazon
- grocery delivery
- food retailing
- food and beverage
- food research
- ecommerce
- groceries
- online retail
- online grocery shopping
Online grocery services: Ready to rocket to over $100 Billion?
For more than a decade, the notorious failure of Webvan scared many potential entrants away from the online grocery business. Now, the field is swiftly becoming crowded with trials by competitors and new operating models, with online grocery services apparently poised to take off on a high growth trajectory, according to Online Food Shopping and Grocery Delivery in the U.S.: Future of Food Retailing by Packaged Facts.
Meeting at the crossroads of technology and service, online grocery shopping...
