Keith Anderson

Price competition continues to intensify as Walmart, Target and Jet.com, among others, seek to close the gap with online price leader Amazon.com. The result is a high-stakes race to the bottom. While good news for shoppers, ongoing price drops are far from good news for grocers already operating on razor-thin margins as well as their…

This year has seen a marked rise in industry chatter about a “price war” among leading online retailers, with major media outlets like Recode reporting that “ … in recent months [there] has been a high-stakes race to the bottom between Wal-Mart and Amazon.com.” Other retailers have also felt the pricing crunch, with 72 percent…

After years of rumors and innuendo, Amazon.com finally seems poised to launch a large-scale push into its own lines of consumables.

Fundamental data such as sales and category share is the lifeblood of today’s best-performing brands in the brick-and-mortar world. Their long-term strategies and everyday execution — for example, knowing which categories and retailers they should be under- or overinvesting in — are measured and closely managed by these critical indicators. However, despite the exponential growth…