May 16, 2024 Walmart reported another quarter of impressive results this morning, with sales and profitability outperforming expectations across all business units. According to CEO Doug McMillon, the shining stars of the quarter were: The eCommerce business Inventory management Rollbacks eCommerce continues to play a critical role to Walmart’s success, contributing 67% of the incremental […]
May 9, 2024 Instacart reported 1Q24 financial results yesterday, with gross transaction value (GTV), revenue, and profitability all coming in above expectations. The Y/Y acceleration in GTV growth (+11.4%) was driven by healthy order growth and modest transaction growth. This represents the fourth consecutive quarter of accelerating GTV growth after years of volatile peaks and […]
April 22, 2024 1 minute read A common mistake made in benchmarking Amazon’s performance is what to compare it to. The FTC, most analysts, and often retail leaders like to compare Amazon to the eCommerce channel. They limit the comparison of Amazon’s growth rate to just the digital portion of omnichannel retailers’ growth rate. At […]
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April 9, 2024 3 minute read Today we answer four common questions on Luminate, Walmart’s analytics offering that: Let’s dive in.
March 25, 2024 4 minute read The following analysis compares recent performance across Amazon, Walmart, and Target, which together make up Stratably’s Mass Index. Given their size, strategic importance to brands, and outperformance in the market, the performance analysis reveals who’s winning and losing and illuminates what’s driving success in retail today and what we […]
March 20, 2024 3 minute read Our recent retail media benchmark shows brands are allocating 15.5% of their total marketing budgets to retail media. While that figure is steadily increasing, digital leaders still view their retail media budgets (and broader resources) as limited, especially relative to the number of retail media networks (RMNs) knocking on […]
March 11, 2024 Is eCommerce front and center when consumer brands present their strategy? We were able to test that hypothesis when thirty brands presented at the CAGNY conference, a long-running industry event primarily designed for investors to assess the short- and long-term strategies of some the largest companies in the industry. The event is […]