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Convenience Store Customers and Sustainability: The Journey

Building a business case for sustainability requires understanding shopper concerns and recognizing the challenges and opportunities that environmental and social issues present. This new study examines how shoppers feel about sustainability, what actions they want local convenience stores to undertake...

North America NACS, 2021

Sustainability and Food Retailing: A Practical Guide to

U.S. consumers are largely aligned on two sustainability issues. First, shoppers from all demographic groups — across age, income, education, region and even political leaning — agree that sustainability is an important issue. Second, these...

North America, 2021

Embracing Modern Convenience: Responding to Shopper Needs

Recent reports from the NACS/Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council have examined the changing face of the convenience retail industry. With that in mind, the most recent council embarked on a study to better understand the evolving...

North America NACS, 2019

The Store of the Future: An Exploration &

The weakening or collapse of traditional supermarket strengths was possibly the most chilling finding from Surviving the Brave New World of Food Retailing, a 2017 report from the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council of North America....

North America, 2019

Small is the New Big: Understanding and Leveraging

Small self-service stores are growing in Europe. Between 2011 and 2017, 100,000 new small self-service stores opened in the 44 countries of Europe. The growth of small self-service stores is partly a response to five...

Europe, 2018

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Supporting “Deciders” on the Shopper Sustainability Journey

January 13, 2022

As convenience store operators look to better understand and serve consumer desires for socially responsible, it pays to understand the modern shopper sustainability journey. Convenience Store Customers and Sustainability, the newest study from the NACS/Coca-Cola...

Winning Tomorrow’s Shoppers

January 13, 2022

The success and growth of food retailers often rest on the ability to focus on current and future challenges or, more specifically, to satisfy the customers you need today and tomorrow. For that reason, supermarkets...

The Power of Third Place

December 16, 2021

As c-store operators continue to navigate new variants of COVID-19, it’s important to understand what is motivating frequent shoppers.

Cleanliness Rules for Supermarket Shoppers

December 16, 2021

As COVID-19 variants emerge, grocery stores must employ safety measure to ensure consumers continue to feel comfortable while shopping.

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Featured reports

Convenience Store Customers and Sustainability: The Journey

Sustainability and Food Retailing: A Practical Guide to

Embracing Modern Convenience: Responding to Shopper Needs

The Store of the Future: An Exploration &

Small is the New Big: Understanding and Leveraging

Blog

Supporting “Deciders” on the Shopper Sustainability Journey

Winning Tomorrow’s Shoppers

The Power of Third Place

Cleanliness Rules for Supermarket Shoppers