Retail Execution

How The Gig Economy Can Solve Retail Grocer’s Workforce Worries A study by Intuit predicts that by the year 2020, 40% of American workers will be a part of the gig economy, or in other words: “a freelancer”. What’s the force driving the push to become a part of the gig workforce? The biggest reason is the digital age —

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Image Recognition Tech: The Solution To Solve On Shelf Availability?  When it comes to on-shelf availability (OSA), image recognition could be the technology that puts retailers ahead of their competition. The technology allows the user to quickly gather crucial OSA information and provides a variety of on-shelf availability alerts for employees to quickly take corrective action. Ultimately, image recognition aids

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Why Big CPGs are Investing in Field Sales & Retail Execution Teams The choice between investing in an inside sales force versus going with an outside sales and marketing broker is an important one for any size CPG company, but for the larger ones, the decision can be monumental. When recent CPG companies like Kraft Heinz and Kellogg’s announced hiring

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How The Center Store Is Became Popular Once Again! As shoppers have become more and more educated in what they’re consuming, their wants and needs have quickly changed and new shopper segments have emerged that retail wasn’t previously ready for. The center store used to be endless rows of food unfit to customers’ new desires for healthy options, dietary needs,

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Why Grocers Are Implementing Single-Source Retail Service Providers Not long ago, retailers relied heavily on a whole ecosystem of CPG category leaders, field teams, third party brokers, and merchandising companies to plan their layouts and execute new planogram sets in a timely manner. However, as retailers started to search for new ways to improve the in-store shopping experience for the

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The Three Best Ways to Measure Share of Shelf Shelf space is a lot like the game of Monopoly. Do you have enough real estate? Is it Park Place and Boardwalk or Marvin Gardens? Is someone parked on your property? You need to know if you’re in the best position for maximum sales, if your product is stocked and whether

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RW3 Wins Three Customer Satisfaction Awards in Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards  Austin, TX. − February 21, 2018—RW3 Technologies has been voted once again the CGT Leader in Customer Satisfaction and a Best-in-Class Retail Execution, CRM and Digital Provider for the consumer packaged goods industry in the Annual Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) Readers’ Choice

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Central Warehouse or Direct Store Delivery(DSD): Why Some CPG’s Are Making The Switch   Everybody was so excited about the possible savings and efficiencies of Direct Store Delivery (DSD) when it first came in vogue in the 1990s. And for some products, it’s still the best choice. But some leading CPG companies, like Kellogg’s, are switching back to the Central Warehouse

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Are Robots The Affordable Solution In Solving OSA Issues? It slides along the grocery store aisles, registering out-of-stocks, low stocks, price errors and misplaced items and goes by the name Tally. Tally the invention of Simbe Robotics, does the work that seems too boring, too repetitive, and too menial for humans to do, and too expensive for retailers to pay

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A Field Sales App Without Embedded Reporting Only Creates More Questions Here’s something to remember: We’re all in this together. Both CPG companies and retailers are trying to keep or gain, an edge in a market that’s evolving so fast it’s almost impossible to keep up with. The better partnerships you can build, the more you can help each other

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