We’ve seen lots of headlines in the past few days after Kantar published their latest update across all the trade and retail press. Food retailers have been trying to hold back the tide of price increases as they face competition from the discounters Aldi & Lidl, but inflation is here to stay at a timeContinue reading “Time to pull out your recessionary playbook”
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Amazon fresh… till tech beware
Amazon has opened a till-less grocery store in London- it’s first ‘Just Walk Out’ shop outside the US, this is less of a threat to grocers and more of a threat to till technology companies like NCR, Wincor Nixdorf or Oracle
look at a problem from a different angle
the fisherman & genie parable shows how you need to look at problem from a different angle.
Acceleration of instore digital adoption
in-store digital adoption has accelerated in grocery shops in last 10 months, driven by safety concerns, but it’s here to stay.
too clever by half…
Long ago there lived a scholar who had the highest regard for learning. His home was packed with books on all subjects. One day he noticed that his shoes were worn and needed replacing. The scholar immediately began consulting his books to find out what to do to replace worn shoes, where to go andContinue reading “too clever by half…”
The Culture Ripple effect
The culture ripple effect… We must walk the walk and talk the talk. The way we behave drives the culture
The Roman God Janus and COVID-19
Janus was the Roman God of transitions and all beginnings so Janus is an apt as we look back on 2020 and start 2021 with Lockdown 3
1. Digital adoption in 2020
2. recessionary fears in 2021
why I set up NorthBailey
A very famous ad man (who will remain nameless) once told me why he’d started his own agency rather than continuing as CEO of his previous agency. “Andrew” he said “there were two reasons… greed and ego”