Author: Claire McBride

Instacart’s Q2 2024: What CPG Brands Need to Know

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August 7, 2024 8 minute read Instacart released its 2Q24 financial results, offering a detailed look into the current state of the grocery market and the effectiveness of its omni-enabler business model amidst a challenging macroeconomic environment. For CPG brand leaders, this report is crucial to: Assessing whether your outlook on Instacart and its role […]

Deep Dive: Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Program

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August 5, 2024 2 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom The Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) program (also known as Strategic Account Services or SAS) provides your brand with dedicated headcount inside Amazon called a customer success manager (CSM) to solve day-to-day issues and support a variety of operational […]

Consumer Macroeconomic Summary: July 2024

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July 29, 2024 2 minute read 2025 growth planning is underway for many brands, and a clear understanding of the macroeconomic backdrop is an important input towards arriving at a reasonable, data-backed outlook. The downloadable one-pager below includes the latest updates on 10 macroeconomic datapoints we use in our own forecasting of the retail market, […]

Retail Media Team Size and Hiring Plans Inside Brands

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July 22, 2024 3 minute read Brands want to get more sophisticated when it comes to retail media. But will they be able to? The answer largely depends on the growth of their retail media team. Anecdotally, eCommerce and marketing leaders commonly cite retail media capacity constraints as the primary reason why they can’t implement […]

Vendor Benchmark on the Amazon 1P/3P Hybrid Model

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July 18, 2024 6 minute read Around every AVN season, there’s a corner of the 1P vendor community buzzing with curiosity about 3P selling – either switching completely or, more commonly and realistically, deploying a hybrid selling strategy that leverages both Vendor and Seller Central. It’s understandable: AVNs were at least somewhat challenging for 72% […]

Amazon Pulse Benchmark: July 2024

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July 10, 2024 4 minute read Midway through the year, our longstanding Amazon pulse benchmark checks in with the industry to understand real-time sales and advertising performance on Amazon as well as promotional dynamics and inventory levels. In this edition, we place a particular focus on how digital leaders should be thinking about the ultra-competitive […]

Deep Dive: 2024 Amazon AVN Wrap-Up

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June 27, 2024 2 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom. With 2024 AVNs closed out for most brands, Stratably and Consulterce teamed up on a benchmark study to understand how the negotiations ended up, the impact to trade terms and profitability, and brands’ key focus areas going forward. […]