The CPG Guys

The Biggest Stories of 2023

Peter V.S. Bond, Sri Rajagopalan & Bryan Gildenberg Season 1 Episode 347

In this Recap Episode, Sri & PVSB review what they consider to be the top CPG/Retail stores of 2023:

  1. The end of Boxed.com
  2. Omnicom & Albertsons Media Collective partners with trade desk
  3. PepsiCo redesigns logo
  4. Giant Eagle circulars March no, April yes
  5. Kroger/Alb announce decision to sell over 400 stores to C&S
  6. Who owns Taco Tuesday? Taco John won over Taco Bell.
  7. No way Jose, Trade Joe’s very clear ECOMMERCE not a priority
  8. Instacart adds AI component to search to allow flexibility with ask Instacart,
  9. Amazon launches AI based PDP content populator
  10. Amazon introduces AI based review summary that summarized sentiment
  11. Food retailers spend over $13BN on tech investments in 2022
  12. Amazon touts biggest prime day $12.7 BN
  13. McDonalds launches cosmcs drink
  14. Overstock rebrands as Bed Bath & Beyond
  15. Instacart IPO
  16. Rite Aid bankruptcy
  17. Getir delivery buys Fresh direct from ADUSA
  18. Many retail media networks emerge : HyVee, gulp, DGMN, maturity is on the way
  19. IAB retail media standards


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