Digital transformation delivered a big blow to impulse purchasing. The rapid rise of online grocery shopping means less frequent trips to the store, and for fewer items. The rising popularity of self checkout, smart carts, and smartphone scan-and-pay technology means less time waiting in line and therefore less temptation to buy fizzy drinks, sugary snacks, and tabloid news magazines. This does not mean the end of the lucrative impulse section, but it might require rethinking impulse—both on and offline.

A recap of our Top 10 Stats from a changing Grocery world and how Halla’s Taste Intelligence can help grocers with the changing grocery industry.

COVID-19 has brought the imagined omnichannel retail world of the future careering into the present day. Once a plucky underdog, online grocery has moved abruptly into prime-time, planting some very interesting challenges in grocers’ laps. In this article, Halla’s CEO, Spencer Price, takes a look at what those challenges are and offer some ideas for how grocery can adapt to the new normal.

Halla joined 2,300 exhibitors and 94,000 attendees at Euroshop 2020, including almost 400 speakers from leading international retailers and retail suppliers. Here are our biggest takeaways from last week’s five-day conference in Düsseldorf!

In a world where online grocery shoppers now expect personalized recommendations, having an online recommendations engine is key to increasing both basket size and customer loyalty. But it isn’t good enough to simply make very generic recommendations or to avoid outrageously bad ones. To move the needle, you need to make precisely the right recommendation to the right shopper at the right time. And that requires combining three machine learning techniques simultaneously. Here is what they are.

You are grocery shopping online. One by one, you type in keywords for the items you need and compare the images, descriptions, and prices that are suddenly laid out before you in backlit splendor.

A typical grocery retailer stocks more than 30,000 SKUs, yet the average shopper purchases fewer than 300 of them over the course of any given year.