Rassegna stampa (What’s Hot) relativa al periodo marzo – aprile 2020, con le principali novità che interessano aziende Retail e produttori.

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2. WHAT’S
HOT?
In Retail and CPG
March – April
2020
THE HOTTEST TOPICS FROM THE MOST
IMPORTANT BUSINESS MAGAZINES and
MANAGEMENT JOURNALS

3. WHAT’S
HOT?INTERNATIONAL
PRESS
March –April
2020

4. Link to the article
AMAZON WANTS TO BRING WALMART
AND TARGET INTO AN OPEN SOURCE
TECHNOLOGY GROUP (DENT)
March 2020 | Business Insider | Daniel Keyes
Amazon wants to work within others retail rivals on
in-store technology because it could: introduce its
tech to more stores and thus getting more practice
and improving its technology, increase its visibility into
the brick-and-mortar channel and offer its technology
to a cheaper price.
AMAZON

5. Link to the article
IN TEN YEARS, THE UPSTART RUSSIAN
ORGANIC FOOD RETAILER HAS GROWN
RAPIDLY
March 2020 | Financial Times | Max Seddon
Andrei Krivenko started the company in 2009 with
$30,000 and today it competes with Russia’s
oligarch-owned supermarkets. Vkus Vill’s main
innovation has been its wide assorment of cheap
organic food, working with more than 800 local
producers. The company is now considering going
public on either the New York Stock Exchange or
NASDAQ.
VKUS VILL

6. WHAT’S
HOT?THE IMPACT OF
COVID-19
March –April
2020

7. Link to the article
In China there is a company that created
masks vending machines with a prefixed
daily stock
March 2020 | South China Morning Post | Abacus
The machine has 800 masks ready to be sold every
day, each buyer can purchase just two a day. Topow
Research Institute of Virtual Reality Technology is
now planning to launch another machine able to
check individual’s temperature after scanning her/his
national ID, alerting authorities in the case it is too
high.
FACE MASKS VENDING
MACHINES

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During the Covid-19 outbreak, different
groceries stayed open by creating a
WeChat groups for local communities and
seniors especially.
March 2020 | Internet Retailing | Elena Gatti
Different grocery stores in China like Alibaba’s Hema
(now Freshippo), Tencent’s Super Species, and
JD.com’s 7Fresh, have all seen increasing orders
thanks to mini-apps on WeChat, through which they
shared videos and pictures of all their available
products.
CHINESE GROCERY
STORES AND WECHAT

9. Link to the article
CONSUMERS’ BEHAVOUR IS
CHANGING DUE TO THE PANDEMIC,
RESULTING IN AN INCREASED
DEMAND FOR ONLINE ORDERS
April 2020 | Business Insider | Gregory Magana
Even if in the US just 10% of consumers shop online,
the online grocery sector is sharply increasing. The
length of the pandemic will certainly influence the Q2
2020 online grocery penetration and it is already
impacting the strategies of companies like Amazon
which is widening its offer through the e-commerce
channel, Aldi and Kroger working with third parties
like Instacart for the delivering services and Walmart,
which is using its brick-and-mortar footprint.
ONLINE GROCERY
FORECASTS

10. Link to the article
BLUE APRON IS SEEING A REVERSAL
OF ITS MISFORTUNE, AS FAMILIES
COOK MORE AT HOME
April 2020 | WSJ | J. Kang and H. Haddon
As some are avoiding supermarkets because of the
coronavirus pandemic, the demand for packs of pre-
apportioned fresh ingredients is increasing, reversing
a period of slower growth. However, keeping pace
with the rising demand is challenging the operations
at Blue Apron, an American meal-kit company.
BLUE APRON

11. Link to the article
KRAFT HEINZ IS INCURRING HIGHER
COSTS AS THE CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMIC REQUIRES ADJUSTING THE
SUPPLY CHAINS
April 2020 | WSJ | Annie Gasparro
Miguel Patricio, CEO of Kraft Heinz, said the
pandemic will reverse the trend toward fresh foods
and niche brands as consumers are coming back to
well-known brands in this time of uncertainty. Kraft
Heinz is simplifying manufacturing and re-evaluate
their merchandising strategies, arguing that reliability
and availability will be the critical success factors in
this new environment.
KRAFT HEINZ

12. Link to the article
NEW STRATEGIES TO HANDLE
INCREASED DEMAND FOR ONLINE
ORDERS
April 2020 | Business Insider | Daniel Keyes
Amazon is already looking to hire 100,000 additional
workers to fulfill its delivery capabilities mostly toward
grocery while Kroger is increasing its stores pick-up
only, aiming to covert almost its 2,800 stores in order
to minimize the risk related to the virus exposure .
AMAZON AND KROGER

13. While stay-at-home customers are shaving less often and
apply less make-up, demand for cleaning up products and
household essentials has surged dramatically. However,
executives cautioned it was unclear how long the boom in
household essentials would last.
Link to the article
P&G SALES HAVE BOOMED IN THE
CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN
April 2020 | Financial Times | Alistair Gray
PROCTER & GAMBLE

14. Link to the article
NAISLES IN SOME OF WALMART’S
STORES ARE ONE-DIRECTION ONLY
April 2020 | Business Insider | Daniel Keyes
Walmart is adding these types of aisles at stores in
UK and Canada, and it is considering to spread them
also in the US. Shoppers can only travel in an aisle
on a predetermined path. The purpose is to help
shoppers maintaining the required social distances by
not crossing each other. It also introduced plexiglass
shields at registers and markers to show costumers
the distance they need to respect between each
other. Such measures have been introduced also at
Costco and Kroger.
WALMART

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