These days, supermarkets are under attack from a host of retail competitors looking to up their ante in the grocery business, including mass merchants, warehouse clubs, chain drug stores, dollar stores and convenience stores, among others. One emerging competitor that’s been drawing more attention lately are online grocery services, which offer the benefits of being
SHELTON, Conn. — TABS Analytics next week plans to release the results of its third annual TABS Analytics Beauty Study, shedding some light on the ever-changing buying habits of consumers in a core mass retail market. Surveying 1,000 women ages 18 to 75 in October, the study looks at what types of beauty products shopper are
SHELTON, Conn. — There has been a long-standing debate over the size of the vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) category. We started our Vitamin Study in 2005 with a simple goal: to get a more accurate measurement of the category size. With our 2016 study, we offered a broader and more robust set of data
Maybe there’s some stuff that people just don’t really want to buy online. That’s one of the undercurrents to the the TABS Analytics Fourth Annual Food and Beverage Study, which concluded that online grocery shopping hasn’t caught on. In TABS survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers ages 18 to 75, only 4.5% of respondents said they
Much has been written about the historic sluggishness of the consumer packaged goods industry. Since 2013 CPG industry sales growth has been below 2%, and that growth has been entirely driven by pricing. In response, we see companies merging, brands being sold and jobs being lost. The pundits in our industry sit on the sideline
Many retailer loyalty card programs don’t work because they’re “consumer unfriendly,” says Kurt Jetta, founder and CEO of TABS Analytics. In a blog post yesterday, Jetta spotlights several problems with current loyalty programs, namely the following: the offers are confusing, consumers have to jump through too many hoops to get the deal, shoppers often must
At long last, we have identified an area of our industry in which the reality actually matches — and indeed exceeds — the hype. I am speaking of the vaunted Millennials, the 18- to 34-year-old age group who one would think (based on the all of the articles in the press) accounted for the vast
SHELTON, Conn. — Highlighting its acumen in consumer packaged goods (CPG) analytics, TABS Group has changed its name to TABS Analytics. TABS said the new name, which goes into effect immediately, better represents its mission to simplify and improve sales and marketing analytics for CPG companies. “We are excited to announce this new chapter in
