Channel Blurring, That Is
Retail and hospitality companies are venturing beyond their core competencies and traditional sales channels to acquire new customers, increase share and grow their overall revenues. Consider these examples:
- To offset shrinking in-store sales, some fast-casual restaurant chains like Panera are offering home delivery of fresh grocery items.
- Large format retailers like Kroger and Target are building small formats to emphasize convenience and appeal to urban shoppers.
- Retail foodservice has long been a focal point for the U.S. grocery industry. Wegmans has taken it one step further by creating dine-in restaurants branded as Market Café.
- Some urban Walgreens stores serve prepared foodservice items, including sushi.
- Led by 7-Eleven, Sheetz and Wawa, the U.S. convenience store industry offset declining tobacco sales by growing its foodservice business over 30% in the past decade.
- Often called “Next-Generation Retailing,” some luxury hotels are adding small retail spaces to generate new revenue and build deeper engagement with their guests.
The Retail & Hospitality Hub is a B2B media brand that showcases cross-channel innovation and emerging trends that enable the entire industry to better serve its customers and grow.
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Our content syndication services allow technology solution providers to share their thought leadership content with consumer goods manufacturers/brands, retailers, foodservice and hotel/hospitality operators and receive a guaranteed quantity of leads that match their ideal customer targets.
The Retail & Hospitality Hub is spearheaded by its Principal, Korry Stagnito. Over his three-decade career, Korry has led and had ownership in dozens of B2B media brands including Progressive Grocer, Convenience Store News, RIS News, Consumer Goods Technology, the Path to Purchase Institute, Drug Store News, Store Brands, Chain Store Age, Hospitality Technology, Canadian Grocer, Beverage Industry and many others. He was previously the Chief Business Development Officer for EnsembleIQ where he had P&L responsibility for the company's media brands and events, and also led their M&A activities. Prior to that, he was President of Stagnito Communications, the leading business media company serving consumer goods manufacturers.
