It is a transitional moment for convenience stores and today’s decisions will shape the industry for the decades to come. Owing to three pivotal trends c-stores must embrace or reject (fresh food, frictionless checkout, and cannabis sales), a new crop of omnichannel grocery competitors, and continued concerns regarding safety, c-store operators have a lot to think about moving into the new decade.
What Convenience Stores Must Know Heading into a New Decade: 2020 Convenience Store Industry Report
Topics: Market Research, Consumer Research, Grocery, Grocery Delivery, Delivery, Consumer Insights Study, C-Store, cannabis
2019 Alcohol Industry Report: The Who, When, and Why of Alcohol Purchases
Alcohol is big business—sure, cannabis is starting to encroach on the after work ‘take the edge off’ market, but alcohol remains as American as apple pie (which is also a type of moonshine). Among changing demographics, social attitudes, and relationships to substances, we thought it was a good time to put our finger on the pulse of the drinking nation.
Topics: Consumer Insights, Grocery, Retail, CPG, Consumer Buying Behavior, Delivery, Consumer Insights Study, Food, Alcohol
2019 Cannabis Industry Report: What Retailers and Manufacturers Must Know
The cannabis industry, though becoming more accepted and mainstream every day, remains shrouded in uncertainty and even taboo. This obscures the many ways the industry will, and indeed already is, shaping retail, manufacturing, grocery, c-store, and food service.
Topics: Food Service, Consumer Insights, Consumer Research, Grocery, Retail, CPG, Consumer Buying Behavior, Consumer Insights Study, Manufacturing, Food
2018 Grocery Industry Report: Omnichannel Adoption Slower than Expected
Grocery shopping ain’t what it used to be. With omnichannel and digital-only challengers threatening legacy grocery’s status quo, operators are racing to build out their omnichannel operations, ranging from in-store pickup of digitally ordered items (click and collect) to rapid grocery delivery (Amazon’s got it down to 2 hours or less).
Topics: millennials, Consumer Insights, Grocery, Omnichannel, Digital Technology, Mobile Technology, Grocery Delivery, Consumer Insights Studies, Consumer Insights Study
2018 Food Service Industry Report: Insights at Your Service
Casual dining chains have taken a beating lately and are doing what they can to stay on their feet. From recent attention grabs—IHOP put its thing down, flipped it, and reversed it; Applebee's went to $1 happy hour drinks—to revitalized menus a-la Macaroni Grill, casual dining chains are pulling out all the stops.
Topics: Market Research, Food Service, Consumer Insights, Consumer Buying Intentions, Consumer Buying Behavior, Consumer Insights Study, Health Food