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It would not be in the same boat this time. Kroger is building its capabilities so that it can cut the Instacart cord one day. Instacart saved its Kroger relationship with minute delivery. To keep it, Instacart would have to stay one step ahead.

This is likely the reason for the battle in Miami with Publix where Kroger will start minute delivery in South Florida. Customer service more white glove is a major focus of its owned delivery, which is the priority over speed at the moment. Walmart still needs a third party. Both Kroger and Albertsons are using Vevee for smart carts.

At the end of last year, I wrote how Instacart needed to gain dark warehouses and become a player in rapid grocery delivery immediately. Instacart must turn to its Micro-fulfillment as a Solution. I noted that Instacart needed to acquire a couple of players in micro fulfillment to build an ecosystem offering. It has not used its Fabric relationship or looked to build an ecosystem offering for its nano fulfillment.

Orders are still siloed by retailer rather than aggregated so that shoppers can get all their needs met across Publix, Sephora, Petco, and Costco in one online basket.

I noted stand-alone MFCs are key there. I thought it could build dark store micro fulfillment for retailers to expand its entry into other markets, creating digital-only offerings similar to what Kroger is doing with Ocado in Florida. Instacart connected the IPO filing to its 10th anniversary. Was this simple PR buzz? Given this climate, replicable model, and nonleader assets, it is unclear if companies will risk the acquisition. Talks with DoorDash and Uber failed.

Both Walmart and Amazon are already offering delivery services to other retailers and getting bites. Watch Consumer Engagement I suggest watching consumer demand for Instacart. Few retailers last year saw stellar digital growth and did not see digital sales boom in Q1 of this year either, although more will be known when Walmart, Target, and Kroger report their Q1 earnings.

I also want to watch Instacart Express subscriber rates. Instacart is still a top platform in online grocery. Instacart is aiming for Canada to offset US losses.

If it loses Kroger, it may fall fast. If DoorDash moves faster on retail partnerships, that will accelerate the burn. Will all these factors be the ones to push Instacart over the cliff?

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We heard many times how the retail pharmacy is the most accessible segment of healthcare in the country. As we emerge from the pandemic, many drug chains are riding real momentum from the surge in traffic and sales over the past two years. Moreover, most drug chains learned many lessons from the pandemic and greatly accelerated their capabilities during this time.

However, consumers still seem ahead of the industry, and the winning retailers will be the ones that quickly reallocate capital and talent to growth areas, such as digital and a more convenient, contemporary drugstore experience.

Both NACDS and suppliers can play a pivotal role by permanently redefining how to better serve retail drugstore customers. One key to success for everyone will be moving urgently to make the needed changes. Global conflicts are having an immediate and dramatic effect on commodity prices. In the upcoming months, shoppers will see their favorite products at significantly higher prices.

What does this trend mean for retailers and shoppers? Barry Thomas, Senior Thought Leader 21 April The pandemic has brought massive changes to the pharmacy industry and drugstore chains. Yet the pandemic demonstrated the resiliency of the industry, pharmacists, and their staff. Clearly, drugstore chains and their pharmacy teams have demonstrated that they are an effective and lifesaving force.

However, drug chains will continue to experience challenges on many fronts, including shopper concerns about prescription costs and health insurance complexities that seem to grow more each year. Moreover, drugstore chain shoppers increasingly demand that the pharmacy and in-store shopping experience mirror their other retail experiences, which are omnichannel and convenient.

With the pandemic stabilizing, chains like CVS, Walgreens, and others will have to carve out a new position to convince shoppers to visit their stores.

We know that more chain drug shoppers are turning to online pharmacies like Amazon or telehealth startups like Hims to have prescriptions delivered directly to the fastest-growing channel in the world — the home. For that reason, traditional drugstore shoppers may make fewer trips to local drugstores, which would also mean shoppers are less likely to buy essential household goods from these stores since they can often get better deals at Amazon, Target, and other retailers.

As such, drugstore chains will have to make material shifts in strategy to remain viable and competitive in the years ahead. Here are five opportunities that drugstores and their supplier partners should experiment with to drive more growth and relevance with shoppers.

In-Store Experience A trip to a local chain drugstore is often like visiting a typical convenience store in the s, which as some of us remember was not a best-in-class experience.

Since then, Wawa, RaceTrac, QuikTrip, and other c-store chains have reinvented their stores to provide a better experience. These retailers and others are capturing more breakfast occasions with quality coffee and offering variety and fresh meals for all dayparts, including new assortments of produce and healthy snacks.

Disciplined capital investment into store remodels to improve the experience can help draw shoppers back to drug chains, which would have the added upside of boosting the back-end pharmacy business as well. Drive-Thrus Drug chains have an enormous asset in their convenient store locations.

However, many drugstores have another possible asset — their drive-thrus — that seem severely underutilized. As we saw with the restaurant industry over the past two years, QSRs thrived during the pandemic on the strength of their drive-thrus, which allowed for safer and more convenient transactions. Drug chains should follow the QSR drive-thru playbook to modernize and fully leverage this capability to drive more retail category transactions and make the drugstore more convenient for shoppers.

Vastly improved drive-thrus could serve as a moat for the chain that figures this out first. Meal Occasions More shoppers are looking for on-demand meals for key dayparts like lunch and dinner, and drugstores can help meet that need. Progressive drug chains could partner with meal-kit providers, FMCG companies, and others to build more fresh meals and healthy solutions for busy shoppers.

Chains that modernize their drive-thrus and expand their contemporary meal offerings would give shoppers another reason to visit their stores. Even if a chain targeted just one daypart and meal occasion in a pilot, this seems like a plausible growth opportunity to test. Ecommerce The growing ecommerce sales of both pharmaceutical and healthcare products are expected to continue as more shoppers migrate online.

Furthermore, other drug chains like Superdrug in the UK are launching ecommerce marketplaces to capture long-tail SKUs and provide health technology wearables and premium beauty assortments. It would seem that shoppers, who are more omni-centric than ever, would welcome drug chains making a more decisive shift to ecommerce. Moreover, more Americans are worried about the pounds they gained during the pandemic, and nearly 2 in 3 US adults plan to change their diet this year to lose weight, according to a new Harris Poll Health Day survey.

Other chains should launch similar programs and market them aggressively to play a more visible leadership role in an area more shoppers are struggling with today. Ultimately, the chain drug sector is facing many structural changes while still dealing with the effects of the pandemic. Yet, as always, crisis brings opportunities, and drug chains have the opportunity to reallocate capital and talent to these five areas with more test-and-learn initiatives. These growth vectors include the pharmacy and retail front store that establish the image for so much of the entire drugstore shopper journey.

Now is the time for more test-and-learn drug chain initiatives that we can all help support. Continued supply chain disruptions and a big step up in commodity prices will pressure retailers and suppliers even more this year than last year to raise prices. There was a glimmer of hope early in that the global and domestic supply chain was finding some breathing room after it was completely overwhelmed in the fall of by high demand that had persisted since spring These disruptions will not only snarl supplies of summer products but will also likely keep the system out of sync and struggling through the holiday.

Additionally, the cost of producing and transporting retail goods will go from bad to worse in The war in Ukraine has exacerbated already high energy and agriculture commodity prices.

Higher commodity prices will affect consumers directly at the pump and eventually in the grocery aisle. Amazon is one example of how this dynamic is trickling down to consumers when it announced that it will increase fees on third-party online sellers whose orders it fulfills. Traditional suppliers and retailers will also face higher delivery fees that they will at least partially pass on to consumers in the form of higher prices.

The higher wages many consumers are earning are a mixed bag for the inflation outlook. Even with higher wages and some inflation adjustments to government programs such as Social Security, less government support in will cause more shoppers to struggle with affordability and pull back on discretionary spending. The baseline inflation outlook calls for prices to level off in and then start to decrease in for an unwelcome reason — an eventual decrease in consumer demand.

Higher interest rates and prices outpacing recent wage increases will cool the economy in and Both were large parts of the inflation crisis in the s and likely contributed to a vicious cycle of self-fulfilling inflation expectations from consumers and businesses.

Kantar Retail IQ clients can view all the retail sales, inflation, and demand forecasts on the macro data page. Inflation Forecasts. The current forecast projects retail inflation in to reach 5. Exceptional inflation will be broad based, led by home goods retailers that are being most squeezed from supply chain woes.

Still, apparel and consumables retailers will also struggle to keep inventories at healthy levels in , which will trigger prices increases and out-of-stocks. Food and some durable goods retailers, such as appliance retailers, will raise prices due to higher commodity prices by the end of and into The expected decline in demand in most retail channels will eventually put a cap on price increases in most goods by early both by giving the supply chain more breathing room and pressuring retailers to invest in prices to attract or keep shopper loyalty.

For more information, please contact:. Doug Hermanson, Principal Economist doug. On April 19, Netflix reported its first ever loss in subscriptions and hinted at a crackdown on password sharing.

This drop reflects how shoppers have been assessing the number and value of the streaming and subscription plans they currently have. Typically, B2B and B2C models have been separate with well-established differences between the two.

Yet, given the rise of new tech stacks and digital transformation sped up by the pandemic, the boundary between B2B and B2C is disappearing. For example, more native direct-to-consumer DTC brands like Allbirds, Bark, and Caraway are moving to B2B to expand their brand reach while capturing more profitable sales from larger wholesale order sizes.

Therefore, the number of pure DTC brands is dwindling given the profitability challenges arising from higher digital marketing costs and slower sales growth. At the same time, established B2C retail grocers are expanding into the B2B sector to expand their brand and sales.

As we all know, the grocery channel is a low-margin business. B2C grocers incur higher costs due to ecommerce growth with profit margins under pressure.

B2C retailers can use their online operations to secure incremental revenue with the wholesale vertical. As such, a growing number of supermarkets are moving into the B2B space. Woolworths in Australia expanded into the B2B sector in when it offered business customers a new solution for everyday supplies. Woolworths provides 10, products, plus easy reordering shopping lists, online and live phone support, and a nationwide delivery network with multiple delivery choices.

Kroger announced this week that it is launching a restaurant supply business offering next-day delivery to companies in the Dallas area.

The new Kroger Restaurant Supply B2B brand offers competitive wholesale pricing by the case to restaurants seven days a week. Many small independent restaurants will welcome this new offer as another way to cope with the supply chain challenges most operators face. Many supermarkets like Woolworths and Kroger have built sophisticated ecommerce sites, fulfillment networks, and digital capabilities, so grocers are looking for new ways to boost demand by leveraging existing capital and digital infrastructure.

While supermarkets moving into the B2B vertical is a logical step for the industry, the move presents new challenges for CPG firms. Many supermarket suppliers are concerned that they could miss out on higher margins from their existing wholesale customers who will lose business to Kroger, for example.

Many suppliers will need to review, adjust, and develop new trading terms now that B2C grocers are moving into the wholesale business. For their part, supermarkets expanding into B2B would be wise to hold proactive discussions with their trading partners to ensure this new channel expansion provides value for new wholesale customers along with its supplier base.

Ultimately, B2E presents new growth and challenges for supermarkets and CPGs, adding an increasingly dynamic and exciting context for the industry. Carrot Ads: Provides retailers digital ad network capabilities. Instacart advertising technology, products, engineering and sales talent, and data insights are offered to retailers owned and operated e-commerce sites.

Participating retailers have digital storefronts powered by Instacart. Currently piloting with small and regional grocers, Schnuck Markets Inc. Expanding later in Carrot Warehouses: Instacart will work with retailers to enable end-to-end fast delivery solutions, with minute ultrafast delivery capabilities. This includes supporting retailers to build new nano-fulfillment centers NFCs , devising floor plans, establishing automation services, and running ongoing operations.

Carrot Warehouses will power minute ultrafast delivery for Publix customers in Atlanta and Miami over the coming months. Extended Instacart retailer services were to start with micro-fulfillment In February , it was first speculated that Instacart would get into micro-fulfillment. I had thought a of couple paths they would consider were: 1. Create warehouse model and white label to retail partners 2. Partner with micro-fulfillment companies to integrate with retail partners’ evolving operations.

At the end of last year, it was clear that Instacart would need to gain dark warehouses to become a player in rapid grocery delivery immediately, and Instacart must turn to its Micro-fulfillment as a Solution MaaS. While Fabric was announced eight months ago to partner for these solutions, now there is a new nano fulfillment strategy that appears not to include Fabric. Carrot Ads and Carrot Insights Instacart is a major player in retail media revenue. Because of their vast retailer network, their contribution to CPG digital sales is quite large.

Ad networks are a huge growth area, and Instacart has pivoted the model to offer it as a service competing with companies such as Criteo. Smaller, regional grocers need this help if they can consolidate services with Instacart and make incremental revenue, that is a win. The important part of maintaining these retailer relationships is data sharing, a goal of Carrot Insights. Data sharing will be a way to keep these smaller retailers happy.

It is important to think about the CPG data connection. These small retailers may capture different budgets and will need to offer CPG advertisers data value in ad exchanges. Carrot services opportunities and threats For now, the new Carrot services are focused on large-to-small regional grocery retailers.

As Instacart learns how to smoothly integrate these services and optimize for success, down the road, it is very likely Instacart would expand these services to non-grocery retail partners. GoPuff uses CitrusAd to power its retail media. GoPuff could be poised to bring this service to the US. DoorDash has many last-mile partnerships, and a big one is Walmart delivery. DoorDash already noted entering the minute delivery space and could offer this to their partners.

Overall, the new Carrot services are a bold, aggressive, and impressive move by Instacart. This will be a catalyst for further change in retailer services and acceleration of retailers moving deeper into retail media and rapid delivery. In our latest video miniseries, our industry experts walk through the latest inflation-related news.

In part 1, Kantar leaders J. Walker Smith, Doug Hermanson, and Julie Craig analyze the global, regional, and local effects of inflation on retailers and consumers. Shoppers’ decision-making and store loyalty, supply chain disruptions, and increasing costs are also discussed.

Part 2 discusses the industries that have been the highest sources of inflation. Part 3 explains how brands can remain innovative in a disrupted economy.

She has developed and implemented data insights at and for global retailers for more than 20 years. Karen holds a B. While companies must comply with government sanctions against Russia, they are well aware of the potential reputational risk if they continue to do business there. Also, many companies are leaving Russia simply due to their own corporate responsibility standards. Nations and businesses are increasingly concerned about the plight of Ukrainians as the crisis takes a tragic toll on innocent civilians, turning millions into refugees.

Subsequently, countries have been imposing sanctions against Russia, with punitive measures coming from the US, the European Union, Great Britain, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, and others. Sanctions imposed after Russia occupied Crimea in had already weakened the Russian economy. Here are just some of the industries and companies suspending business with Russia:. Restaurants are also finding ways to boycott Russian products while supporting the Ukrainian people.

Restaurants across North America and Europe have stopped selling Russian-made vodka and signature Russian meals. Beyond companies boycotting and suspending business in Russia, brands, retailers, and organizations are stepping up in meaningful ways to support Ukraine:. To date, over companies have stopped doing business in Russia.

You can find an ongoing list of companies boycotting Russia on the Yale School of Management site. The near-term and long-term impact of these actions are still unclear. Ultrafast delivery has penetrated New York City. These companies have aggressive customer acquisition campaigns. Ultrafast couriers are seen all around the city. City officials are pressuring to block dark stores and eliminate minute messages in advertising. Kantar tried Gopuff and Gorillas and found a couple of surprises.

Retailers are being placed under the spotlight as shoppers hold them accountable with higher expectations that support values. Target does a great job at understanding its shoppers and goes beyond in order to create product selections that reflect its values. Target recently forged a new partnership with Black-owned Bridgeforth cotton Farms. Want to know more? Download your complimentary infographic below.

Shoppers find themselves juggling multiple layers of stress as the pandemic nears its two-year anniversary in the US. In addition to ongoing health and wellness concerns, shoppers have been navigating saving and spending in a tumultuous economy, made even more uncertain by the rise in prices due to inflation.

Most recently, shoppers have had to grapple with the unexpected stress of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. While the future impact on the supply chain and prices is still unclear, shoppers will no doubt reach back into their money-saving toolkits in the short-term, stocking up on essential household items and leveraging different fulfillment methods to find the right products in the right quantities — and at the right price.

Recovering from the pandemic will continue to be challenging for the restaurant industry in As we reflect on the past two years, it’s clear that the foodservice industry has addressed many complex issues with innovative strategies and a growth mindset.

Restaurants that have survived the pandemic have done so by embracing robust innovations to reinvent their business models and economics. We have seen that successful foodservice brands are futureproofing themselves through digital investments, flexibility, new partnerships, imagination, and new revenue pools.

Restaurants emerging stronger from the pandemic have innovated with new revenue acceleration initiatives and business practices. We have identified six emerging growth platforms that restaurants have pivoted to and will continue with this year and ahead:. While foodservice brands will remember the pandemic for the monumental challenges it created, they will also regard it as a time of incredible innovation for restaurants and their suppliers.

We have built out detailed slideware content for Kantar clients on the six restaurant business models you can access here. Not yet a subscriber? Last mile delivery has long been a challenge for retailers and suppliers alike. Getting the product into the hands of the shopper in a cost effective and efficient manner requires a comprehensive fulfillment strategy, often involving partnerships in the last mile.

The evolution of the last mile space has brought about several last mile delivery providers along with last mile services from major retailers Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, etc. Channels like Grocery and Drug have found last mile delivery particularly important in their omnichannel strategies.

The COVID pandemic fast tracked the online grocery sector, and many more shoppers began using grocery delivery services in and The Drug channel found last mile delivery helped get products to shoppers without them having to come into stores while sick.

Quick commerce players like Gopuff, Gorillas, and Getir have also entered the market in the last few years. These players promise delivery in under 30 minutes and drive impulse purchase behavior from shoppers.

Quick commerce is already a massive business in Europe and is making inroads in the U. These players have led other last mile delivery providers like DoorDash and Uber Eats to move into the convenience and grocery delivery market as well, as these last mile delivery providers see massive revenue opportunities in both.

Quick commerce players will become a bigger part of omnichannel retail in the U. They cannot be ignored or pushed off for later. This can help a supplier determine how much of their assortment, marketing spend, and overall budget to allocate to each player.

It is difficult to determine which last mile providers and retailer services will prevail and which will be acquired or fail to achieve long term profitability. Suppliers must keep tabs on the changes in the last mile delivery market and update strategies accordingly.

Meanwhile, on the retailer side, it is difficult to determine whether a partnership with a player like Instacart is sufficient, or whether an in-house last mile delivery service may be a worthwhile addition, or even alternative. Retailers must weigh the tradeoffs here and ensure they are taking advantage of revenue streams that the last mile delivery providers offer.

If you would like a more in-depth look at the impact of last mile and hear thoughts from my knowledgeable colleagues and myself, please attend the Kantar Last-Mile Evolution virtual event on March 3, The recent developments in Ukraine will have immediate and potentially lasting effects on global retail.

From distribution industries, including fuel, plastics, and packaging to an already disrupted supply chain, we expect far-reaching implications. In this three-part series, our industry experts Rachel Dalton, David Marcotte, and Amar Singh discuss retail ramifications and implications for shoppers.

Part 3 exposes the potential logistical impacts on the retail industry. Parts 1 and 2 discuss pricing and inflation concerns. Target made waves this week when it announced that guests will soon be able to add Starbucks orders to their Drive Up orders and complete returns without leaving their car.

So What? Target is bringing the Target experience to your car, eliminating current pain points with returns and unfulfilled items and bringing unbridled joy to Starbucks fans in select cities who can now drive up and caff up at the same time. Beyond these customer-level improvements could be hints at struggles Target is looking to solve:.

We expect Target to report on its performance within the next several days. Join David Marcotte, Amar Singh, and Rachel Dalton as they discuss the lasting implications in this 3 part mini series.

The pandemic exposed just how tightly the US is integrated into the global economy given the huge level of products, support services, and investments that come from overseas.

But that integration is highly vulnerable to the growing proliferation of global cyber threats, meaning that cybersecurity should be a top industry concern.

Cybersecurity became critical for all industries in with the rise of ransomware that directly impacted just revenue but also future profits.

These attacks have evolved from single-tier demands for payments to release data to second-tier threats of releasing sensitive data in increments while waiting for payment and even third-tier attempts to extort individuals associated with the data. Most of these attacks were directed at stressed and poorly defended healthcare companies in that clearly could not afford to be offline for even a few hours during the pandemic.

Since then, the attacks have expanded to the equally stressed and fragmented logistics industry. However, the real threat now is the high potential for collateral damage from cyberwarfare that has already escalated in Eastern Europe.

Russia has a long history of actively using these weapons in the region, but so does Ukraine though arguably more so in self-defense. On June 27, , malware was activated on multiple government and financial systems in Ukraine. First thought to be Petya ransomware, it turned out to be a weaponized version called NotPetya that prevented users from accessing their hard drives and offered no way of recovery, effectively destroying the data. Directly aimed at Ukraine to severely disrupt IT support infrastructure, it rapidly spread to other connected systems, which was likely part of the intended disruption.

Within a day, more than 1, businesses, airports, power grids, and financial management systems were damaged. Global data integration meant the destruction did not stop at national borders. Most companies cut access to common communication trunks to isolate themselves from infection, but that meant cutting themselves off from business as well.

The infected organizations spent weeks in test-and-recovery mode, further limiting their return to productivity. Attacking IT systems and infrastructure offers a far higher ROI with considerably less risk to the original aggressor. Moving armies, engineers, or equipment is expensive. Software is decidedly cheaper and already has an extensive landscape dedicated to concealing identities while ensuring results. This landscape is a competitive matrix of experts for hire, mostly based in Russia and Eastern Europe.

The early internet marketing via spam of gray market pharmaceuticals created a loose infrastructure of specialists. One group found and stored working email addresses. Another managed payment.

Still another managed messaging, while others captured computers for use and delivered the product. Their success drove others to improve their craft. It also attracted the funding and attention of criminal gangs tied to governments in the s. A gray cooperative of profitable mischief makers — the Spam Nation of coders, finance, gangs, and often compromised security agencies — emerged. Turning Point At the same time, nations started leveraging the internet and digital devices to build espionage capabilities.

Implementing keystroke readers, monitoring communications, and tracking users were the basics. Its success led to an international arms race to create better, more effective, and harder-to-detect code.

The Spam Nation was often the ideal conduit to expand into the serious criminal activities of stealing financial information and selling credit data. Ransomware emerged around for criminals to drive illegal income. However, due to lack of predictable results and ransom payments, it was not very cost effective. The NSA leak, combined with an effective Stuxnet reverse-coding, made ransomware far easier to build and execute on a large scale. But it also meant that governments could outsource coding and execution of weapons to relatively unknown groups.

Resulting attacks were not as narrowly targeted as they were with NotPetya, which is the code developed from that NSA leak. Collateral Damage Risk Retailers live with daily cyberattacks, such as spear-phishing, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and active and passive monitor taps within supposedly secure systems.

Those in the C-suite understand that a breach can cost them their leadership positions. But it is decidedly harder to measure the collateral damage to processes and procedures that is a byproduct of this new form of warfare. It is difficult to overstate how integrated retail and the surrounding ecosystem is today, resulting in reduced costs and improved customer engagement, inventory, and financial technology, all of which are competitive requirements.

Retailers invest to protect the integrity of their systems from hackers, blackmail, and wandering viruses. Data and process hygiene are essential to integrate with third parties. Risk mitigation is a mature planning tool for all of retail, including IT. However, asymmetrical warfare is not a normal part of that planning, which makes future collateral damage to a retailer likely.

IT must be more aware of new threats not aimed at the industry, but that can easily damage it. This means it must have a high degree of threat awareness and work with security firms that specialize in identifying these threats in real time. And it means reassessing current preventive tools that have performed well to date, but that can often be altered into weapons as a means of stealth access.

Interested in learning more about our take on global impacts to the US market? The primary objective of the metaverse and Web 3. A mass-market platform like the 3. In , metaverse building blocks will continue to emerge for an immersive future from games, business applications such as logistics, and, ultimately, shopping and dining. Nike has led the charge with patents and acquisitions to have virtual goods and build virtual retail environments to sell those goods. Think of the metaverse like the early stages of online shopping.

Still, it will be a place where continued improvements in augmented reality AR , virtual reality VR , nonfungible tokens NFTs , and cryptocurrency will lead to virtually immersive environments that will change online experiences and commerce. This emerging context has considerations for how brands, retailers, and restaurants enter the metaverse.

How Brands Can Enter the Metaverse. Learn from other brands. Create metaverse learning circles within your organization and among noncompeting brands to generate insights and learnings within your company and with an outside-in lens. Document winning use cases and catalog the lateral learnings for your metaverse marketing. Some companies are already moving assertively in this direction. Identify your target cohort. Who is the target consumer?

Gen Z will be an early adopter and should be a prime demographic to recruit to your brand. Start with e-gaming and virtual ecommerce. Gaming is the most mature platform for metaverse immersion, with Fortnite offering the closest experience to the metaverse. Launching new marketing campaigns, extending brand engagements, and connecting to in-app purchases support the capabilities you need before you dive into the metaverse.

Launch and learn. Leverage your metaverse learning circles, key agencies, and Gen Z consumer insights to develop a launch plan for your brand. Keep calm and market in the metaverse. New areas present risks and rewards, especially with few standards and rules in the early adoption cycle. But taking a wait-and-see approach is the bigger threat to brands since marketing in the metaverse likely carries a first-mover advantage, especially with the No.

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Newly Jan However, very real practicalities can present themselves on January 1, the primary being grocery stores’ truncated New Year’s Day opening hours. Historically Germany has enjoyed relatively low energy rates that have averaged about half those compared with the rest of Western Europe.

We are suffering a global inflationary phenomenon. The cause of this inflation was the global printing of money by central banks the world over. This period we are experiencing is more analogous to the post war when the US was moving from war financing to business financing. We all printed money while fighting the war on the pandemic.

When that happens the price of those commodities gets bid up and that causes the producer price index to rise, the consumer price index to rise, and just about every price index to rise. You couple the money printing with very low interest rates and easy credit, and you get asset price inflation in the stock market, in real estate and even the bond market. But the monetary system does rely on central bank collaboration. If you look back over the period of the pandemic, central banks largely acted in unison.

That might have been coincidence, but I believe that the European central bank and the Bank of England and the federal reserve and the bank of Japan were all in communication. Fast forward to today and we have a major divergence in central bank policy.

The federal reserve is tightening monetary policy and raising interest rates while the European central bank is now in a massive stimulus. The ECB had been raising interest rates slowly but in collaboration with the Fed to fight inflation.

This question comes from John who writes: “I listen to your show all of the time. I have been studying macro economics hard for about 5 years. I feel very well informed and knowledgeable regarding the macro economic picture most of the time, Then I listen to you and I feel like a brand new apprentice. You are one the smartest people I have listened to.

And I listen to a lot, including all rich dad advisors. My question is this. I am a business owner in the United States teaching martial arts, with a primary focus on teaching children ages years of age. I have several full time and part time team members. I am looking to expand my operation as we are very busy at our 1 location, to the point where we are busting at the seams. We have received top notch mentoring and they have provided us top notch systems.

We have all of our systems down and are able to duplicate them with more locations and provide more opportunity. My concern is the constant attention on recession. I owned the business in and rode out the last major recession, but I was a business of 3 employees then. Today we are This is the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger and providing more opportunity and more jobs. Should I just go for it knowing that we know how to expand and duplicate our systems, or should I wait for a year and see what happens?

I would love to know your thoughts. Chris Rawley. Chris is the founder and principal at Harvest Returns, a Fort Worth based venture capital firm that specializes in agricultural investments. The company is an early adopter of new agricultural technologies and they have grown the company to the point where they are investing in advanced production methods that can apply equally in the warehouse environment as in the field.

To connect with Chris and to learn more, visit harvestreturns. Inaky Strick. Inaky Strick is based in New Braunfels Texas. But before moving back to Texas, he specialized in selling investment properties in Belize at the amazing Mahogany Bay Village Resort. It was this experience that built both comfort and expertise in international investing. On today’s show, we’re talking about owning short term rentals in Tulum Mexico. Zoning Variances. But I have a little experience on the topic and think it could be valuable to talk about some of the nuances.

Goal Setting For Q4. Most business owners set goals at the start of each year. You had an intended plan back in January, a fresh start of a new year. In our company, we do our goal setting in December. So much has happened in the world in We had two more waves of the pandemic.

The world watched in horror as Russia invaded the Ukraine and brutalized the population and traumatized the world. We experienced a runaway inflation, and rising interest rates.

Many real estate investors had projects underway that got derailed by the increase in construction prices or higher interest rates or both. So here we are, coming up against the start of the fourth quarter. You have 90 days left in the year. Now would be a great time to ask yourself some insightful questions.

Dangerous Deals. On today’s show we’re talking about the dangerous updraft of rising market conditions. Auto Repossessions on the Rise. Whenever interest rates rise, we often see the impact in auto repossession six to eight months before we see foreclosures in the housing market. Foreclosures are a judicial process in most jurisdictions which involves a much longer process than an auto repossession. When researching this episode, I learned some pretty shocking statistics about the auto industry.

Europe’s Energy Crisis. On today’s show we are taking a look at what’s happening to energy prices in Europe. We are very insulated in North America from the energy shock in Europe.

Sheltering Capital Gains with Scott Saunders. Scott Saunders has been working on capital gains tax sheltering and is extremely active in influencing the legislative process. To connect with Scott or to learn more, visit exchange. Paul Moore is the head of Wellings Capital where the company has launched its sixth diversified fund.

To learn more, visit wellingscapital. Emerging Market Central Bank Intervention. This naturally has an impact on countries that have needs for foreign reserves. The strength of the US dollar makes the cost of imports denominated in US dollars more expensive.

It makes exports denominated in US dollars more profitable for local manufacturers. A few weeks ago we reported on the problems in the European central bank and in the EU in general with sovereign debt starting to suffer a crisis of confidence. Central banks all over the world are known to intervene and inject liquidity when needed to solve problems for their domestic banks when they run short of reserves, and in some cases foreign reserves.

But when central banks do intervene, like the Federal Reserve has been known to do, it sets off alarms through the global financial markets. Interventions are an indication of the central bank attempting to fix a problem that has already happened. There is an increasing trend among central banks to perform these interventions in a clandestine manner so as not to cause panic in the financial markets.

That means performing the transactions off balance sheet. This is not a new book. It was first written in and has been on Warren Buffet’s recommended reading list for much of the past decade. Getting Back To Normal. After two years of absolute insanity in the world of construction, lead times and inventory seems to be much more sane.

Only a few weeks ago I was quoted 14 weeks for glass patio doors. Yesterday I was quoted weeks lead time. I can tell you that we are approaching construction projects with a renewed sense of confidence. We are still shopping around for bargains. This is necessary at any point in the economic cycle. But in all cases you need to make sure you are ordering products that meet your local building code. Is Your Project Feasible? It turns out there are several other conditions that need to be met in addition to the basic zoning.

Parking ratios Traffic load Utilities load for water, sewer, electric, gas and internet School capacity Fire code and access You might have enough land to build your proposed building, and you might meet the zoning for your building.

Of course you need to meet all the constraints for that particular building in terms of density, height, setbacks from the property line at the front yard, rear yard and side yards. But there is so much more. We see so many projects being held up by cities much to the frustration of property owners. This is where a comprehensive understanding of the complete set of engineering constraints is so important. Balkanization Not Globalization. Trevor Oldham is the owner of podcastingyou.

Trevor brings the experience of being a show host, a show producer, and a show editor. The breadth of experience in all these roles makes for a good agent, knowing how to provide value to both the guests and the show hosts.

To connect and to learn more, visit podcastingyou. On today’s show we’re taking a case study out of George’s law school course on negotiation from when he was teaching at NYU. It’s a case where he was negotiating on behalf of his client Sol Goldman with Bill Zeckendorf a well known and highly respected name in New York real estate.

Well Intentioned Catastrophe. Today and every day this week we are looking at some aspect of food security and the major shifts that are putting enormous strain on our global food supply. We are already experiencing acute shortages all over the world. We start to see the rise of food nationalism. We are looking specifically at Sri Lanka and the major impact it had on their national economy.

I love the idea of organic farming. I personally buy organically grown fruits and vegetables whenever I can. His goal was an ambitious one: to transform Sri Lanka into the first nation with percent organic agriculture. Less than a year later, the country is left in an economic and supply shortage crisis as a result.

Food Nationalism. There are numerous examples. Some countries produce far more than they need domestically to serve their population. Other countries have very little in the way of domestic production of certain foods and rely almost entirely on imports for their daily food. A case in point is Malaysia which has halted its chicken exports in an effort to safeguard its domestic supply, which leaves people in Singapore struggling to find chicken as authorities suggest the public opt for frozen poultry alternatives.

Fertilizer Crisis. That decrease in yield is in addition to the other factors that are already putting pressure on food supply.

So we have not one, not two, but three factors negatively affecting our food supply. Over the past 30 years, the carbon neutral movement has been pushing the oil industry to an increasing proportion of bio fuels. Despite all this government support, ethanol is often a money losing proposition for farmers. It is also one of the least efficient ways to generate energy.

If you covered an acre of land with solar panels instead of growing corn, you would win by a landslide. An acre of Solar panels produce 70 times more energy than an acre of ethanol from corn. Global Food Insecurity and Food Preference. You might be wondering what food and real estate have to do with each other.

Successful investing, just like in team sports requires a strong offence. But equally important and far less exciting is a strong defence. That conservative defensive posture requires an understanding of the risks. We are hearing about how the war in the Ukraine is leading to food shortages all over the world. In fact, the conditions have been building for many years.

Our demand for agricultural grains has also been growing at about 1. But since , the global demand for grain has been growing at about 2. So the question is why? Are we all just eating more? Are we all just going to get fat? But in the most developed countries, we find that diet is largely based on animal protein. The good news is that we have made dramatic steps to erase poverty in a number of countries.

Raising animal protein requires much more resources than growing plant based food. The remainder consists of grains. It takes 2. So as people in developing countries change their dietary preference to consuming more meat, the demand for grain is rising faster than the population.

Jonathan Cattani. Jonathan Cattani got his start as a stock broker in Salt Lake City. That lead to eventually reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and pivoting into the world of real estate investing. On today’s show we’re talking about how to talk to investors in today’s environment given all of the uncertainty that has been injected into the environment since the end of the first quarter. To connect with Jonathan, visit investwithcattani. Jorge Newbery. Jorge Newbery is based in Chicago Illinois where he runs a series of businesses connected with distressed loans.

You can connect with Jorge and learn more about their platform at prereo. RVs Everywhere. The requirement to social distance and limit contact to those in your immediate household during the pandemic made camping vacations an ideal choice for many families. The industry has struggled to keep pace with demand during the pandemic. The combination of material shortages and labor shortages has left many manufacturers unable to keep up with demand.

Some customers were left waiting for more than a year to take delivery of their new RV. The Next International Crisis. On today show we were talking about whether we are about to experience another repeat of the and sovereign debt crisis having a ripple effect through global financial markets. There are clues of an impending crisis when you listen to the words of Christine Lagarde head of the European central bank.

This next crisis will also precipitate a change in foreign exchange markets. When countries experience a crisis of confidence, the release valve is the value of the currency in international markets. Some currencies are free floating.

Some currencies are pegged to specific assets. Still others are pegged to other currencies. For example, we have 66 countries pegging their currencies to the US dollar.

There are 25 countries pegged to the Euro. This is designed to stabilize exchange rates between trading partners. We have some very powerful lessons in the financial crisis. Many people think that you thousand and eight was only about subprime mortgages. But there had to have been much more to than just subprime mortgages. Why were banks in Ireland failing? Europe is a funny collection of individual countries each being held together for a common monetary and economic system.

But each of these countries are not created equal. It makes sense if you look through out history that bonds issued by one country are not necessarily of the same credit quality as the bonds issued in another country. We often hear about the north south divide in Europe.

Italian credit is not of the same quality as German credit. Yet somehow we see that a very large percentage of the collateral being used in the repo market at the European central bank is comprised of Italian sovereign debt.

Christine Lagarde recently went on record stating that she has anti-fragmentation tools at her disposal and she intends to use them. Conservation Easements. These are a poorly understood and rarely used asset type. My friend Tom Wheelwright is fond of saying that the tax code should be viewed as a series of incentives.

The portion of that tax code that extracts money from business, employees and the population at large can be described in a very small number of pages. The thousands of other pages enshrined in the legislation can be thought of as a series of incentives. Conservation easements are one such incentive. The idea is that governments like to see land protected in its natural form. This can sometimes be done through zoning. But zoning is not perpetual, and zoning can be changed.

If you truly want to preserve land for ecological purposes in perpetuity, then you need a land use mechanism that is even stronger than zoning. Enter the conservation easement. With a conservation easement, land is donated in perpetuity to conservation through a land trust. Inflation is Structural. On today show we are looking at whether the most recent economic figures are an indication of a trend, or a false flag?

We are going to be looking at the inflation metrics and looking at the constituent elements to determine whether inflation has peaked. Will the Fed succeed in breaking the back of inflation or is inflation systemic at this point? Finally we are going to look at Europe and ask whether we are experiencing a global phenomenon and can the USA separate itself from the rest of the world in this regard?

The latest inflation numbers suggest that inflation in the US cooled from 9. There are two variables that the government will be able to influence. The first is energy prices.

Or can you? AMA – Differentiated Digging. Last Friday Joseph from Boulder Colorado asked a question about systems and software for his company that almost accidentally got into the excavation business. For a complete context, you may want to listen to that episode first before listening to this one.

I was thinking some more about your question related to how you got into the excavation business. This episode is a bonus. Joseph, if you want to be in the excavation business, I would recommend that you consider having a differentiated offering. There is a concept in business called intentional congruence. Intentional congruence means offering products and services that are clearly distinct, but actually go together.

People who do excavation are merely digging holes. Digging holes is a commodity. Commodities are interchangeable and the winning bid always goes to the lowest bidder.

You calculate the machine time and multiply by the hourly rate. But you want your offering to be differentiated in the market.

Mark Pattison. Mark Pattison is based in San Diego where he is engaged in development projects and a growing portfolio of multi-family apartments. On today’s show we’re talking about opportunity zones that can be a diamond in the rough. Mark also hosts a podcast called the “Mark Pattison Show” which can be found on Youtube.

Brett Swarts. Brett is based in Sacramento California where he helps investors nationwide with tax deferral strategies using the Deferred Sales Trust. To connect with Brett or to learn more, visit capitalgainstaxsolutions. AMA – Software and Systems. Joseph in Boulder Colorado writes: Thank you for all you do. Your podcast is a real treat and we get so much from it. At the beginning of the year, I wrote you an AMA about how to best serve our community, as an investor, after the devastating fires near Boulder Colorado.

The advice you gave in that podcast really spark my efforts towards helping the most amount of people and becoming a solution for the bigger problem. Instead of worrying about the market and rents etc. I decided to go out and create a private fire cleanup company using excavation equipment my partner and I had.

From this, we helped clean over 65 home lots and made a direct impact on getting our neighborhood back on its feet. Now that the fire cleanup efforts are over, this company, created basically from thin air is in a unique position to transition into digging and building foundations for the residential builders in the area. Out of this sad event we are experiencing massive growth and booking several foundations already.

My question is as we are growing our organizational capacity is being strained, what kinds of software do you as a developer use to keep it all together?

Our current systems are clunky and often leave us wanting more integration and streamlining. Thanks again for your advice and how much you put out for the real estate investment community. Selective Statistics. Is the government lying? But the conclusions being drawn are definitely the result of spin being put on the numbers.

In the July report it was reported that the economy added , job and , jobs in June. These are impressive numbers. The White House proudly claimed that all of the job losses from the pandemic had been officially erased from history. The unemployment rate was down to 3. It turns out that the Bureau of Labor and Statistics actually publishes two different employment survey reports at the same time and they have significantly different methodologies and therefore different results.

Walking Away From The Deal. The typical scenario with a new home or condo purchase involves signing a purchase agreement, several months, sometimes a year in advance of the actual delivery date of the finished product. There are a number of real estate closings scheduled for August and September this year when the actual agreement was made in the fall of last year. In some cases, the agreement was signed over a year ago.

So fast forward to today. Interest rates have increased. Appraisers are taking a much more conservative approach on the valuation under direction of the lenders. When they got to the closing and many buyers did not have a rate lock on their financing. Inflation Reduction Act. The first thing you notice when you read the page document, is that it has almost nothing to do with inflation.

In fact, out of the pages, the word inflation only appears 35 times in the entire document. Will The Dollar Survive? On today’s show we’re talking about the steps and implications of China’s rise to commercial dominance and the possibility of international transactions being subject to Chinese central government oversight.

Kim Hopkins. Kim is one of the principals at Iron Peak Properties where they specialize in multi-tenant industrial buildings.

This is a narrow segment of the industrial space and one that offers strong resilience against economic cycles. To connect with Kim and to learn more visist ironpeakproperties. Dave Dubeau. Dave Dubeau is a real estate investor who also owns a boutique digital marketing agency. He has two different podcasts aimed at two different audiences. He uses a podcast to maintain a conversation with his clients and prospective clients. His latest podcast is focused on training aspiring capital raisers in real estate how to raise funds.

To connect with Dave visit raisecapitalshow. Six Months From Now. There are a lot of mixed signals happening in the market. There are those who are acting as if nothing has changed in the last days. On the other hand, there are those who absolutely know something has changed. We have entered into a completely different set of market conditions in the past 90 days. What’s your experience in this? I have more land banking experience than land developing experience, but how hard can it be and is it worth it?

This is a great question. Counter Party Income Risk. When we speak about counter party risk, we are usually having a discussion about the balance sheet. The quality of the asset is strictly linked to the ability to service the liability. But there is a second form of counter party risk that is not often talked about in the same terms.

This form of counter party risk applies to the income statement. This leads to the question of which assets have the greatest income risk in this stagflation environment. Energy Mirage. On today’s show we’re talking about the mixed signals we’re getting from energy markets. The narrative in the mainstream media concerning energy is outright misleading. Since the economy is tied to energy, you need to pay very close attention to energy markets.

In their book, William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history.

The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras—or “turnings”—that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order.

George Ross on Market Cycle. On today’s show George Ross and I are talking about negotiating in today’s turbulent environment. He brings a perspective that few others have after many decades in real estate and having lived through numerous market cycles. Preparing For The Downturn. Today’s show is a live talk on how to prepare for the upcoming downturn. Handling Sticker Shock. I still experience an emotional reaction. It takes some time to work through all of the second guessing that happens when you experience sticker shock.

Am I out of touch? Is my budget at risk? Did I make a budgeting mistake? All of those self doubts are normal. Dealing with the uncertainty can be stressful and anxiety provoking. Do I work through the budgeting problem, or share it as a risk with the project stakeholders?

Through the process of value engineering, you will discover the true cost of the most efficient solution. These high quotes happen with alarming regularity. The New Definition of Recession. Chairman Powell said some things in his press conference that were astounding. But the most stunning statement from Jerome Powell was the flat statement the he does not believe the US is in a recession. The official GDP numbers for the second quarter will be released today. But J Powell also went on to say that GDP numbers are complex and they take a long time to get right because the US economy is so huge.

They have a history of being revised a lot, and therefore we should take the initial numbers announced today with a grain of salt. To help us all make sense out of this complexity, the White House put out a new blog post a week ago. The timing was excellent. Skewed Metrics. The Wall Street Journal published an article this week in collaboration with realtor. The purpose of the ranking is somehow tied to their prediction of those communities offering the best rate of return on investment using a set of criteria that they applied to their methodology.

The Wall Street Journal is widely read, and I have no doubt that this piece is going to be widely referenced by other reporter and perhaps your own investors as well. Census Bureau. Those two areas comprise eight key indicators and the Wall Street Journal applied a weighting to each of the 8 indicators to come up with a metric and therefore a ranking.

We’re looking at whether this ranking makes any sense. Crisis of Confidence. What happens if the Fed was to loosen monetary policy before actually beating inflation? This is a realistic scenario that many investors have been predicting. The hope of many investors, those who are addicted to the loose monetary policy of the last decade, is that we return to the way things were.

Asset bubbles feel good on the way up, and they feel terrible on the way down. The past decade has represented a market distortion that has been promoted by central banks in Europe, the US, Canada, Japan. The list goes on and on. If the central bankers decide to pivot and lower interest rates, the likelihood is that investors in the bond market will not accept to lower interest rates. You see interest rates are based on one principal factor and that is risk. The bond market ultimately determines the yields in the market.

If the Fed was to slow down their rate of interest rate increases before actually beating inflation, the bond market is likely to respond with a loss of confidence in the Fed. Emotional Investing. We are emotional creatures who often make emotional decisions. The old adage is to buy low and sell high. But left to our own emotional devices unchecked, humans are inclined to buy high and sell low.

Humans are motivated by both fear and greed when it comes to investing. These two emotions are naturally designed to protect us in the wild. But these two emotions are rather ineffective in protecting us against what happens in the market. If you look at the statistics of what is actually happening in the market, the majority of investors buy high and sell low.

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Should I wait another 90 days for things to stabilize before holding any any investor conversations? What are your thoughts? Why The Numbers Don’t Work.

It will clearly show why so many projects are getting cancelled in the current rising interest rate environment. These numbers are coming directly out of our own underwriting tools and they are the result of what-if analysis that we have performed on several projects. But we’re seeing these interest rate changes and inflation as a math problem. We are entering a dangerous period.

Notice that in this discussion, we have not even discussed whether market cap rates change. We have performed so many of these analyses over the summer that we can almost do the math in our head.

Energy, Manufacturing And Interest Rates. The availability of skilled labor at an acceptable wage. A plentiful low cost energy supply. A favourable tax structure Access to major transportation routes by rail, ship, and highway. If you eliminate one or more of these four requirements that is enough to disqualify a location for manufacturing.

The latest geopolitical energy crisis as a result of the war in the Ukraine has caused factories in Europe to close. Some will not reopen. Germany has been a manufacturing powerhouse in Western Europe, despite its relatively high labour cost. The labour force is highly skilled with a strong work ethic. Historically Germany has enjoyed relatively low energy rates that have averaged about half those compared with the rest of Western Europe.

We are suffering a global inflationary phenomenon. The cause of this inflation was the global printing of money by central banks the world over.

This period we are experiencing is more analogous to the post war when the US was moving from war financing to business financing. We all printed money while fighting the war on the pandemic. When that happens the price of those commodities gets bid up and that causes the producer price index to rise, the consumer price index to rise, and just about every price index to rise. You couple the money printing with very low interest rates and easy credit, and you get asset price inflation in the stock market, in real estate and even the bond market.

But the monetary system does rely on central bank collaboration. If you look back over the period of the pandemic, central banks largely acted in unison. That might have been coincidence, but I believe that the European central bank and the Bank of England and the federal reserve and the bank of Japan were all in communication. Fast forward to today and we have a major divergence in central bank policy.

The federal reserve is tightening monetary policy and raising interest rates while the European central bank is now in a massive stimulus. The ECB had been raising interest rates slowly but in collaboration with the Fed to fight inflation.

This question comes from John who writes: “I listen to your show all of the time. I have been studying macro economics hard for about 5 years. I feel very well informed and knowledgeable regarding the macro economic picture most of the time, Then I listen to you and I feel like a brand new apprentice. You are one the smartest people I have listened to. And I listen to a lot, including all rich dad advisors.

My question is this. I am a business owner in the United States teaching martial arts, with a primary focus on teaching children ages years of age. I have several full time and part time team members.

I am looking to expand my operation as we are very busy at our 1 location, to the point where we are busting at the seams. We have received top notch mentoring and they have provided us top notch systems. We have all of our systems down and are able to duplicate them with more locations and provide more opportunity. My concern is the constant attention on recession.

I owned the business in and rode out the last major recession, but I was a business of 3 employees then. Today we are This is the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger and providing more opportunity and more jobs. Should I just go for it knowing that we know how to expand and duplicate our systems, or should I wait for a year and see what happens? I would love to know your thoughts. Chris Rawley. Chris is the founder and principal at Harvest Returns, a Fort Worth based venture capital firm that specializes in agricultural investments.

The company is an early adopter of new agricultural technologies and they have grown the company to the point where they are investing in advanced production methods that can apply equally in the warehouse environment as in the field.

To connect with Chris and to learn more, visit harvestreturns. Inaky Strick. Inaky Strick is based in New Braunfels Texas. But before moving back to Texas, he specialized in selling investment properties in Belize at the amazing Mahogany Bay Village Resort. It was this experience that built both comfort and expertise in international investing. On today’s show, we’re talking about owning short term rentals in Tulum Mexico. Zoning Variances.

But I have a little experience on the topic and think it could be valuable to talk about some of the nuances. Goal Setting For Q4. Most business owners set goals at the start of each year. You had an intended plan back in January, a fresh start of a new year. In our company, we do our goal setting in December.

So much has happened in the world in We had two more waves of the pandemic. The world watched in horror as Russia invaded the Ukraine and brutalized the population and traumatized the world. We experienced a runaway inflation, and rising interest rates. Many real estate investors had projects underway that got derailed by the increase in construction prices or higher interest rates or both.

So here we are, coming up against the start of the fourth quarter. You have 90 days left in the year. Now would be a great time to ask yourself some insightful questions. Dangerous Deals. On today’s show we’re talking about the dangerous updraft of rising market conditions. Auto Repossessions on the Rise. Whenever interest rates rise, we often see the impact in auto repossession six to eight months before we see foreclosures in the housing market.

Foreclosures are a judicial process in most jurisdictions which involves a much longer process than an auto repossession. When researching this episode, I learned some pretty shocking statistics about the auto industry. Europe’s Energy Crisis. On today’s show we are taking a look at what’s happening to energy prices in Europe.

We are very insulated in North America from the energy shock in Europe. Sheltering Capital Gains with Scott Saunders. Scott Saunders has been working on capital gains tax sheltering and is extremely active in influencing the legislative process.

To connect with Scott or to learn more, visit exchange. Paul Moore is the head of Wellings Capital where the company has launched its sixth diversified fund. To learn more, visit wellingscapital. Emerging Market Central Bank Intervention. This naturally has an impact on countries that have needs for foreign reserves. The strength of the US dollar makes the cost of imports denominated in US dollars more expensive.

It makes exports denominated in US dollars more profitable for local manufacturers. A few weeks ago we reported on the problems in the European central bank and in the EU in general with sovereign debt starting to suffer a crisis of confidence. Central banks all over the world are known to intervene and inject liquidity when needed to solve problems for their domestic banks when they run short of reserves, and in some cases foreign reserves.

But when central banks do intervene, like the Federal Reserve has been known to do, it sets off alarms through the global financial markets. Interventions are an indication of the central bank attempting to fix a problem that has already happened. There is an increasing trend among central banks to perform these interventions in a clandestine manner so as not to cause panic in the financial markets. That means performing the transactions off balance sheet.

This is not a new book. It was first written in and has been on Warren Buffet’s recommended reading list for much of the past decade. Getting Back To Normal. After two years of absolute insanity in the world of construction, lead times and inventory seems to be much more sane. Only a few weeks ago I was quoted 14 weeks for glass patio doors. Yesterday I was quoted weeks lead time. I can tell you that we are approaching construction projects with a renewed sense of confidence. We are still shopping around for bargains.

This is necessary at any point in the economic cycle. But in all cases you need to make sure you are ordering products that meet your local building code. Is Your Project Feasible? It turns out there are several other conditions that need to be met in addition to the basic zoning. Parking ratios Traffic load Utilities load for water, sewer, electric, gas and internet School capacity Fire code and access You might have enough land to build your proposed building, and you might meet the zoning for your building.

Of course you need to meet all the constraints for that particular building in terms of density, height, setbacks from the property line at the front yard, rear yard and side yards. But there is so much more. We see so many projects being held up by cities much to the frustration of property owners. This is where a comprehensive understanding of the complete set of engineering constraints is so important.

Balkanization Not Globalization. Trevor Oldham is the owner of podcastingyou. Trevor brings the experience of being a show host, a show producer, and a show editor. The breadth of experience in all these roles makes for a good agent, knowing how to provide value to both the guests and the show hosts.

To connect and to learn more, visit podcastingyou. On today’s show we’re taking a case study out of George’s law school course on negotiation from when he was teaching at NYU. It’s a case where he was negotiating on behalf of his client Sol Goldman with Bill Zeckendorf a well known and highly respected name in New York real estate.

Well Intentioned Catastrophe. Today and every day this week we are looking at some aspect of food security and the major shifts that are putting enormous strain on our global food supply.

We are already experiencing acute shortages all over the world. We start to see the rise of food nationalism. We are looking specifically at Sri Lanka and the major impact it had on their national economy. I love the idea of organic farming. I personally buy organically grown fruits and vegetables whenever I can. His goal was an ambitious one: to transform Sri Lanka into the first nation with percent organic agriculture. Less than a year later, the country is left in an economic and supply shortage crisis as a result.

Food Nationalism. There are numerous examples. Some countries produce far more than they need domestically to serve their population. Other countries have very little in the way of domestic production of certain foods and rely almost entirely on imports for their daily food.

A case in point is Malaysia which has halted its chicken exports in an effort to safeguard its domestic supply, which leaves people in Singapore struggling to find chicken as authorities suggest the public opt for frozen poultry alternatives. Fertilizer Crisis. That decrease in yield is in addition to the other factors that are already putting pressure on food supply.

So we have not one, not two, but three factors negatively affecting our food supply. Over the past 30 years, the carbon neutral movement has been pushing the oil industry to an increasing proportion of bio fuels. Despite all this government support, ethanol is often a money losing proposition for farmers. It is also one of the least efficient ways to generate energy. If you covered an acre of land with solar panels instead of growing corn, you would win by a landslide.

An acre of Solar panels produce 70 times more energy than an acre of ethanol from corn. Global Food Insecurity and Food Preference. You might be wondering what food and real estate have to do with each other. Successful investing, just like in team sports requires a strong offence.

But equally important and far less exciting is a strong defence. That conservative defensive posture requires an understanding of the risks. We are hearing about how the war in the Ukraine is leading to food shortages all over the world. In fact, the conditions have been building for many years.

Our demand for agricultural grains has also been growing at about 1. But since , the global demand for grain has been growing at about 2.

So the question is why? Are we all just eating more? Are we all just going to get fat? But in the most developed countries, we find that diet is largely based on animal protein. The good news is that we have made dramatic steps to erase poverty in a number of countries. Raising animal protein requires much more resources than growing plant based food. The remainder consists of grains. It takes 2.

So as people in developing countries change their dietary preference to consuming more meat, the demand for grain is rising faster than the population.

Jonathan Cattani. Jonathan Cattani got his start as a stock broker in Salt Lake City. That lead to eventually reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and pivoting into the world of real estate investing. On today’s show we’re talking about how to talk to investors in today’s environment given all of the uncertainty that has been injected into the environment since the end of the first quarter.

To connect with Jonathan, visit investwithcattani. Jorge Newbery. Jorge Newbery is based in Chicago Illinois where he runs a series of businesses connected with distressed loans. You can connect with Jorge and learn more about their platform at prereo. RVs Everywhere. The requirement to social distance and limit contact to those in your immediate household during the pandemic made camping vacations an ideal choice for many families. The industry has struggled to keep pace with demand during the pandemic.

The combination of material shortages and labor shortages has left many manufacturers unable to keep up with demand. Some customers were left waiting for more than a year to take delivery of their new RV.

The Next International Crisis. On today show we were talking about whether we are about to experience another repeat of the and sovereign debt crisis having a ripple effect through global financial markets.

There are clues of an impending crisis when you listen to the words of Christine Lagarde head of the European central bank. This next crisis will also precipitate a change in foreign exchange markets. When countries experience a crisis of confidence, the release valve is the value of the currency in international markets.

Some currencies are free floating. Some currencies are pegged to specific assets. Still others are pegged to other currencies.

For example, we have 66 countries pegging their currencies to the US dollar. There are 25 countries pegged to the Euro. This is designed to stabilize exchange rates between trading partners.

We have some very powerful lessons in the financial crisis. Many people think that you thousand and eight was only about subprime mortgages. But there had to have been much more to than just subprime mortgages. Why were banks in Ireland failing? Europe is a funny collection of individual countries each being held together for a common monetary and economic system. But each of these countries are not created equal.

It makes sense if you look through out history that bonds issued by one country are not necessarily of the same credit quality as the bonds issued in another country. We often hear about the north south divide in Europe. Italian credit is not of the same quality as German credit. Yet somehow we see that a very large percentage of the collateral being used in the repo market at the European central bank is comprised of Italian sovereign debt. Christine Lagarde recently went on record stating that she has anti-fragmentation tools at her disposal and she intends to use them.

Conservation Easements. These are a poorly understood and rarely used asset type. My friend Tom Wheelwright is fond of saying that the tax code should be viewed as a series of incentives. The portion of that tax code that extracts money from business, employees and the population at large can be described in a very small number of pages.

The thousands of other pages enshrined in the legislation can be thought of as a series of incentives. Conservation easements are one such incentive. The idea is that governments like to see land protected in its natural form.

This can sometimes be done through zoning. But zoning is not perpetual, and zoning can be changed. If you truly want to preserve land for ecological purposes in perpetuity, then you need a land use mechanism that is even stronger than zoning. Enter the conservation easement.

With a conservation easement, land is donated in perpetuity to conservation through a land trust. Inflation is Structural. On today show we are looking at whether the most recent economic figures are an indication of a trend, or a false flag? We are going to be looking at the inflation metrics and looking at the constituent elements to determine whether inflation has peaked. Will the Fed succeed in breaking the back of inflation or is inflation systemic at this point?

Finally we are going to look at Europe and ask whether we are experiencing a global phenomenon and can the USA separate itself from the rest of the world in this regard? The latest inflation numbers suggest that inflation in the US cooled from 9. There are two variables that the government will be able to influence. The first is energy prices. Or can you? AMA – Differentiated Digging. Last Friday Joseph from Boulder Colorado asked a question about systems and software for his company that almost accidentally got into the excavation business.

For a complete context, you may want to listen to that episode first before listening to this one. I was thinking some more about your question related to how you got into the excavation business. This episode is a bonus. Joseph, if you want to be in the excavation business, I would recommend that you consider having a differentiated offering.

There is a concept in business called intentional congruence. Intentional congruence means offering products and services that are clearly distinct, but actually go together. People who do excavation are merely digging holes. Digging holes is a commodity. Commodities are interchangeable and the winning bid always goes to the lowest bidder.

You calculate the machine time and multiply by the hourly rate. But you want your offering to be differentiated in the market. Mark Pattison. Mark Pattison is based in San Diego where he is engaged in development projects and a growing portfolio of multi-family apartments. On today’s show we’re talking about opportunity zones that can be a diamond in the rough. Mark also hosts a podcast called the “Mark Pattison Show” which can be found on Youtube. Brett Swarts. Brett is based in Sacramento California where he helps investors nationwide with tax deferral strategies using the Deferred Sales Trust.

To connect with Brett or to learn more, visit capitalgainstaxsolutions. AMA – Software and Systems. Joseph in Boulder Colorado writes: Thank you for all you do. Your podcast is a real treat and we get so much from it. At the beginning of the year, I wrote you an AMA about how to best serve our community, as an investor, after the devastating fires near Boulder Colorado.

The advice you gave in that podcast really spark my efforts towards helping the most amount of people and becoming a solution for the bigger problem. Instead of worrying about the market and rents etc. I decided to go out and create a private fire cleanup company using excavation equipment my partner and I had. From this, we helped clean over 65 home lots and made a direct impact on getting our neighborhood back on its feet.

Now that the fire cleanup efforts are over, this company, created basically from thin air is in a unique position to transition into digging and building foundations for the residential builders in the area.

Out of this sad event we are experiencing massive growth and booking several foundations already. My question is as we are growing our organizational capacity is being strained, what kinds of software do you as a developer use to keep it all together? Our current systems are clunky and often leave us wanting more integration and streamlining. Thanks again for your advice and how much you put out for the real estate investment community.

Selective Statistics. Is the government lying? Amazon Fresh store openings are likely to increase heavily in the second half of the year. Analysts failed to ask Amazon executives about physical store plans in the past quarterly earnings calls.

Kantar forecasts Amazon US E retail sales at This estimate assumes stronger retail sales in the second half of the year with Prime Day, Prime membership value, and shoppers looking for good holiday deals to offset inflation. Forecasts will continue to be balanced with guidance by Amazon, competitor performance, and watching the macroeconomic conditions. QSR chains are embracing five growth strategies in this more competitive context: Drive-thru and pickup innovation: QSRs are adding drive-thru lanes and piloting mobile-only lanes to serve customers quicker.

Farmers markets have exploded in popularity throughout the US. The appeal for many shoppers is connecting directly with the farmers who grow and harvest the products they will consume. Farmers market shoppers know they can often find the freshest foods at a local farmers market rather than at a large supermarket chain. Shoppers also value knowing that the money they spend at a farmers market goes directly back into their communities.

Small farmers are no longer relegated to selling at neighborhood markets or roadside stands. Today, more family farmers are leveraging technology to reach new markets and shoppers and stay competitive despite being minor players. In addition, the pandemic has caused many farmers to adopt new tech stacks and online skills to sell their products.

This partnership is powered by Market Wagon, which operates an online farmers marketplace intended for food producers to thrive in their local and regional markets.

Besides reinforcing the importance of buying local, the Kroger-farmer partnership is a win-win for farmers and the retailer alike. The Atlanta-area farmers who belong to the program get access to Kroger shoppers, while Kroger captures a new shopping occasion and channel. Barn2Door grew out of the idea that farmers should profit more from the products they sell without a middleman taking a cut.

The company provides software and digital services to help farmers grow and manage their businesses. Barn2Door powers the experience shoppers expect when purchasing from farmers online, including one-click access to orders anytime, anywhere across the web, social, mobile, and email. Farmers are responsible for fulfillment and delivery. Mobile Farmers Markets Mobile markets are unique because they deliver local fresh fruits and vegetables to underserved communities where options to purchase such food are limited or nonexistent.

Many of these players accept government subsidy programs like SNAP. Urban Growers Collective is one such farm. This Black- and woman-led nonprofit farm in Chicago is working to build a more just and equitable local food system. In addition to growing food, the nonprofit aims to cultivate environments that support health, healing, creativity, and economic development through urban agriculture.

While these farms are oriented around production, they also offer staff-led education, training, and leadership development opportunities. Farmers Food Hubs Many farmers are thinking about selling their products beyond their local neighborhoods and moving toward a regional sales strategy via food hubs. Food hubs are firms that aggregate, store, process, advertise, and distribute farm products.

However, these distribution networks can help farmers build a deeper regional supply chain that can help develop their farm brand and provide more long-term financial stability. Planting the Seeds We should also overtly recognize that farmers markets provide essential opportunities and learnings for brand marketers, retailers, and restaurants. Here are four ways farmers markets can help our industry.

A roadshow for growth: The popularity of farmers markets creates many avenues for new product exposure, awareness, and trial. Selling and experimenting with fresh products at these locations can help startup brands ignite. Brand buzz and communities: As startup brands sell their products regularly at farmers markets, they build loyalty and communities to fuel sales as well as online audiences that can create a potent social media presence.

Farmers markets can be perfect for helping new brands drive grassroots and person-to-person marketing connections. Unique and high-value insights: Entrepreneurs and FMCG leaders can pick up new learnings from direct interactions with these markets and in-the-moment engagements between farmers and shoppers. Farmers markets provide authentic and unfiltered feedback on how fresh products should smell and taste.

Yet, this creativity is what so many shoppers value at their local market. Partnership potential: Larger grocers, restaurants, and farmers markets have an opportunity to partner to reach new audiences. Many shoppers would value seeing a supermarket or national restaurant chain support the local farmers market.

Also, supermarket chains and restaurants could host a farmers market, giving those who might not be farmers market shoppers an incentive to stop by. Farmers markets are undoubtedly innovating and growing.

The markets can provide new insights, inspiration, and potential opportunities for FMCG brands, retailers, and restaurants. Take time one weekend to visit one or two farmers markets in your area and see the compelling fresh vegetables, fruits, and other products on offer. Also be sure to notice the robust local ecosystem that many consumers prefer shopping, one that promotes the local economy, health and wellness, and bringing local people together.

To me, the anti-trust scrutiny is simply an added outcome of what Amazon is aiming to do, which is private label rationalization. The word on the street is that Amazon is not alone in needing to offload inventory.

They are likely too deep in private label brands and SKUs, having them reassesses the strategy and value of private label brands. It is noted that Amazon has at least 88 confirmed private brands, but some sources state there are or more than Amazon private brands. They recently launched Amazon Aware, a new carbon neutral and climate-friendly pledge brand, also available at the new Style store.

I do believe Amazon will likely reduce private label SKUs and consolidate brands, but they will use them where they play a strategic role.

In an article I posted yesterday from The Grocer, a comment noted an opportunity for Amazon to leverage Deliveroo for delivery from Fresh stores. Yesterday, Deliveroo expanded its partnership with Waitrose for its rapid delivery service Hop. This is an interesting thought. Amazon does have its own delivery for Amazon Fresh in the US, which includes stores. Amazon could trial incremental rapid delivery through a third-party, namely Deliveroo.

Grubhub in the US could test third-party strategy, and perhaps rapid delivery, but that would have to be built. Many retailers continue to partner with third parties simply for the incremental reach and quick delivery, despite having their own operations. US grocer Albertsons has a third-party diversification strategy for same-day and minute delivery, partnering with DoorDash and Uber. The goal is to be accessible to shoppers wherever they choose to shop.

However, while Amazon has a stake in Deliveroo and Grubhub companies, I think they would be more interested in owning these companies and leveraging the full retail partnership network.

They could use them as a test always Day 1 to evaluate rapid delivery operations. The UK may be a more open ground for Amazon to try a third-party, rapid delivery strategy. In its inaugural Ecommerce Retail Preference Index RPI , dunnhumby highlighted five primary drivers that influence where people prefer to shop online:. Having launched curbside pickup in , H-E-B steadily grew its omnichannel ecosystem and was fully prepared when COVID accelerated the shift to online shopping.

Since then, H-E-B has continued to improve its ecommerce presence. Thus, ease and reliability of service rank higher with these shoppers who have busy lives and look to save time any way they can.

H-E-B has kept its app focused on making omnichannel shopping simple and easy. For instance, the app lets shoppers quickly add products to online baskets by scanning bar codes on their phones.

Amazon is currently expanding its ecommerce grocery market share, offering Prime members free delivery and in-store pickup options. However, unlike traditional grocery retailers such as H-E-B, Amazon lacks an extensive network of brick-and-mortar stores to fulfill pickup orders. H-E-B has proved that midsize, regional retailers can compete with global ecommerce giants like Amazon and large national grocers.

How so? By meeting the unique needs of omnichannel shoppers with easy, time-saving online basket-building features and reliable delivery and curbside services.

By catering to these needs with easy and reliable omnichannel tools and services, retailers can drive more online sales and create strong emotional ties that build shopper loyalty. In , more shoppers will shop based on loyalty, and retailers will want to retain the shoppers they gained during the pandemic as well as improve their online profitability.

H-E-B is a great case study in how retailers can incentivize the use of online grocery to maintain and retain shoppers. As retailers look to capitalize on the rise in grocery ecommerce, they should study how H-E-B has created omnichannel solutions that focus on primary drivers for shopping online and that cater to the specific needs of the omnichannel shopper demographic. The state-of-the-art facility utilizes ultra-high temperatures to pasteurize dairy products, a process that kills harmful bacteria and eliminates the need for refrigeration.

Think of your favorite flavored Nesquik milk that sits on a shelf. Serving nearly stores in Ohio and West Virginia, as well as ecommerce orders, the Tamarack Farms Dairy expansion opens a new market for the dairy industry, one that reduces the cost to ship products in refrigerated units and reduces the amount of spoiled product that cannot be sold.

In Q1 , Kroger launched new seasonal items, including fresh products, under its Our Brands label. As the price of goods continues to rise, retailers should look to Kroger and its innovative product developments that reduce transportation costs and extend the shelf life of perishable products.

Walmart plans to expand the AR capabilities to dorm room furniture in the coming weeks. Initially the AR feature will be available only on iOS but Walmart plans to roll it out to Android and the mobile web. Walmart is adapting these AR capabilities to other parts of the stores. The AR app will allow shoppers to scan shelves and immediately identify items that meet specific parameters. For example, shoppers can easily find items that are gluten-free, kosher, or nut-free, or that meet other dietary requirements.

They will also be able to set up specific filters, such as highlighting items on Rollback or that have instant redeemable coupons. For store associates, AR is mapping and tracking every case in the backroom about 15, of them.

Associates can scan product cartons on backroom risers to quickly identify which product is low or out on the shelves. These AR features are currently in about 3, stores. Plans call for rolling them out to all stores over the summer. The MME uses machine learning to aggregate data on product movement and predict inventory trends at the store level and throughout the chain, automatically determining when merchandise should be shipped to stores rather than waiting for a store to order.

Walmart is moving toward personalization in its digital delivery programs, with significant implications for marketing and promotions. What will the shopper need to know about your products to make a purchase decision? What other item features are important to converting shoppers to purchasers?

Walmart is moving quickly toward automation, digitalization, and machine learning across operations and supply chain. From an inventory management standpoint, be sure you understand the algorithms Walmart is using to determine product reorder points.

Visibility to when, where, and how often POs will be cut is necessary to successfully deliver product on time and in full. What factors influence these machine-learning orders?

Are there seasonal or other disruptions in the ordering process that can be predicted? What will machine learning miss? The report reviews industry trends from large multiunit restaurant brands, independent restaurants, and convenience stores. Digital orders are now one-third of restaurant and c-store transactions.

Digital orders have remained elevated while in-store orders remain down. While restaurant and c-store on-premises orders are resuming, they are still below pre-pandemic levels, with digital orders now far higher, as expected. Takeout is more dominant than delivery when it comes to online orders. The nature of digital orders has changed as well. While delivery was king before and during the height of the pandemic, more recent data indicates that takeout orders now dominate and are higher than they were before the pandemic.

Delivery customers remain significant, spending more per transaction. While customers are pivoting more to takeout, delivery customers remain strategically important. Delivery customers tip better and more often than takeout customers.

These are two fundamental differences between the order types and customers. Delivery customers are more loyal than takeout customers. Approximately one-third of delivery orders are from customers who order multiple times a month. Takeout customers order more sporadically. The study found that delivery guests are more loyal and repeat orders from the places they enjoy.

Food, service, and value indicate whether customers will return. The best indicators of whether customers return is if they receive outstanding food, service, and value. Customers who give 5-star reviews in these areas are the most likely to revisit, and the three categories correlate with the likelihood of returning almost precisely.

Coupons work to recover customers. Yet an intelligent coupon strategy and the right technology can give front-line managers more control.

Managers armed with coupons can help turn negative reviews into profitable customers and experiences. AI intelligent menu recommendations drive high check orders. Uno found that guests were twice as likely to accept AI-generated recommendations over human ones.

AI-enabled smart menu designs produce potent results. Data science continues to make its way into retail and restaurant chains, and this study included a use case on how AI is helping customers choose what to order with smart menu designs. The study included a multivariant menu test pilot with National Coney Island, which has an extensive menu.

The new AI-designed menu led to improved results, with conversion rates up 3. The pandemic has fundamentally changed how restaurants and convenience stores engage and serve customers. Customer behaviors shifted swiftly to online ordering, establishing a new normal for off-premises channels.

This study validates the impact and importance of digital orders and transactions to restaurants and c-stores. Expect to see more restaurants and c-stores adapt to the customer experience of the future, which requires more digital-centric and data science capabilities for the enterprise, including the front-line staff. Our take: Miranda Lambert is an incredibly popular and highly talented singer-songwriter.

Her unapologetic and cheeky take on Southern life will undoubtedly resonate with a large swath of Walmart shoppers. Unfortunately for Walmart and Lambert, the timing is poor and the kitchen is crowded. Walmart and other retailers are facing a glut of merchandise even as more is in transit from China, making this a less-than-ideal time to launch new products.

Lack of brand differentiation is typically the kiss of death. Barry Thomas, Senior Thought Leader 17 June Retail store associates can be a potent part of the retail media network ecosystem to boost store and brand sales. Store associates, more than anyone, understand the shoppers walking into their stores every day and provide a measure of authenticity and trust. Notably, while traditional social media influencers are still important, they generally do not connect with and help shoppers at a local level.

Retail store associates often have actual authenticity instead of stylized studio selfies. Not all store associates will embrace selling retail products as social influencers or livestreamers.

Yet, some associates are naturally good at it, offering some fantastic possibilities for retailers, restaurants, and CPGs. Retail associates who do embrace social and digital media can expand their audience beyond the store and value proposition beyond their typical front-line retail duties.

Expect more retailers to embrace store associates as digital sellers, providing a real human face and local authentic touchpoint for retail sales. Some, but not all, front-line retail associates can engage digital audiences due to their product knowledge and communication skills.

While these associates can become brilliant brand ambassadors for retailers and CPG brands, they need to be compensated fairly for the value for their sales results. These associates must have stellar selling skills — it takes a certain kind of person to engage shoppers over video and social media — but as long as they believe in the brand and product, social media is a great platform.

Here are two retailers and one restaurant chain embracing store associates as brand ambassadors and digital sellers. Tiffany Workers Take to Social Media Tiffany is embracing employees as influencers to build digital and social audiences to sell its products. A number of Tiffany employees have accounts on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook where they post photos and videos of jewelry and other product categories. These workers, who are paid on commission, have become social media personalities to boost sales.

Many employees post pictures featuring the newest products, their personal views on the brands, and how they can help shoppers. They can then schedule a consultation or styling discussion, ask for a product recommendation, or discuss another topic.

Tiffany, like other retailers, has supplied employees with tips on leveraging social media more effectively, given the rise in this trend. Walmart Associates in the Spotlight Walmart is also paving the way for a new generation of retail micro-influencers as it supports associates who promote the brand on social media as influencers.

Walmart has more than employees enrolled in its Spotlight program, a new initiative helping associates engage digital audiences as micro-influencers. Walmart began piloting the Spotlight program last year, and the retailer wants to expand it to 1. An open question is how Walmart will compensate its associate micro-influencers beyond their hourly rate as the Spotlight program progresses.

The answer could set a new standard for many retailers. Since food content is one of the most consumed content categories on TikTok, restaurant brands have a tremendous opportunity to create a win-win social communication and selling context with restaurant associates. New Front for Retail Employees The era of front-line retail employees becoming meaningful content engines and sellers for retailers and restaurants is upon us.

Thinking of retail associates as part of a retail media network can provide many new ideas to drive engagement and meaning with store personnel while creating value for local shoppers, stores, restaurants, retailers, and CPG brands. This new era of retail micro-influencers provides a powerful opportunity for CPG companies to lean in with their retail and restaurant partners to create a new strategic marketing playbook for the industry in collaboration with their front-line associates.

The question is which CPG firm will step up to lead this new type of marketing, working with retailers, restaurants, and store associates to create new marketing value across the industry. Automation is accelerating across restaurants. Robots for the back and front of the house were on full display. Server robots that take meals to tables can offset rising labor costs. Other robotic options can help cook food in back-of-the-house roles.

These robots indicate that many manual and repetitive restaurant activities are material opportunities for automation. Flexitarians are driving plant momentum.

With US consumers, especially younger adults, eating more plant-based meals, flexitarianism is becoming more accepted across the restaurant industry. Many suppliers had plant-based chicken, sausage, and beef on center stage at the show.

Other features included plant-based ice cream and animal-free dairy. The addressable market for plant-based foods and beverages is expanding for restaurants and supermarkets, especially as more consumers seek healthy, sustainable, and transparent meals. Boba beverages are breaking through. Boba drinks were another feature at the show, and we can expect to see more of them. Boba tea, which has been popular in Asia since the s, has since gained enormous popularity in Australia, Europe, and the US, with boba drinks popping up at more restaurants.

Boba drinks offer a variety of colors, flavors, and textures, which are especially grabbing the attention of teens and young adults in the US. Del Taco, Dunkin’, and Sonic already offer boba-type drinks.

Expect more chains and retailers to follow suit with ready-to-drink RTD boba brands. More off-premises occasions are driving RTD options. Traditional fountain drinks are taking a backseat as takeout and delivery fuel restaurant sales.

These occasions call for more RTD beverages instead of ice-diluted fountain beverages. In addition, consumers looking for alternatives to typical fountain beverages are embracing new RTD options like cold-brew coffees. Also, packaged RTD brands offer better quality and a more sanitary option than fountain drinks. Expect more food service operators to provide more RTD beverages to pair with guest meals. Takeout and delivery spawn more packaging options. Container options at the show were abundant, given the growth in off-premises occasions.

Many package suppliers displayed tremendous innovations with packaging materials made from various sources. Many packaging options centered on biodegradable materials because more food service brands have meaningful sustainability goals and want to provide more environmentally friendly packaging.

Food lockers are on the scene. The food locker industry is a crowded space, with many companies offering various solutions. The concept is straightforward.

The consumer or delivery person then arrives, scans a bar code to unlock the door, and takes out the food package. Restaurants are adopting to-go formats.

As off-premises occasions grow, so do physical format innovations to support these consumers. Indeed, a lot of products were on display for to-go meals like food lockers and new meal packaging. More restaurants are adopting these physical formats now that less dining space is available inside restaurants as delivery and pickup orders accelerate. QR codes continue full steam ahead. QR codes were all over the show and the topic of many discussions at the event. Restaurant operators are high on QR codes because they save labor, eliminate the need for printed menus, and collect customer data.

Yet QR codes don’t always work effectively, so food service brands need to test the codes before rolling them out nationally and conduct regular quality checks once the codes are executed. We can expect to see more widespread use of QR codes as the industry comes up with more innovative ways to apply them.

Restaurants expand ways to reduce inflation. With food and labor costs rising, battling inflation was a central theme at the show. Solutions offered at the show to curb inflationary pressures included technology programs to streamline menu ingredients and IoT sensors on large restaurant kitchen equipment and even new napkin dispensers to help monitor and lower costs. Data and advanced analytics are moving forward.

Data was a key feature across the supplier show areas with more restaurant operators highly interested in gathering data about their customers and staff to optimize operations and enhance the customer experience. Many restaurant brands still use legacy technology built 10 to 15 years ago, which does not equip them to win in today’s market. The show displayed many technologies from software, hardware, and the cloud to advanced analytics platforms that can help restaurant brands improve operations and the guest experience in real time.

The National Restaurant Association Show is a truly iconic event for the industry but other retail channels should pay attention as well. The restaurant industry — and the learnings from this event — are often leading indicators of what will influence other retail channels and suppliers in the near future. Kroger has officially entered Florida but not in the traditional way by opening brick-and-mortar stores. Instead, Kroger is implementing a home delivery service — and taking on Publix and Walmart in the bargain.

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