IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution)

Happy New Year! 🎉 As we enter 2025, now is a great opportunity to prioritise your #learning for the first month's of 2025! 📚 Whether you're looking to build on the #skills you've developed throughout your career or exploring new opportunities, scroll through our learning calendar below to check out our upcoming courses and workshops 💡 Secure your spot today to unlock your full #potential with us👇

Understanding the businesses we work with is critical to developing great insights and foresight. Thank you to the amazing Retail colleagues who have taught us so much this week as we have supported them preparing our Christmas shop! IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution) Sainsbury's Tesco Aldi UK Morrisons Marks and Spencer Toby Pickard Liz Clarkson Kate Sizer Tom Wakeman Andrea Fox Joan O'Connor Graham McLean Devi Rughani Sabrina J Grassi Simon Horner Gemma Little Ben Piears Ian Dunkley Matthew Stoughton-Harris Stephen Palmer Sarah Haynes Charlotte Barker Abhay Marwaha Naomi Kissman Juliet H. Abi Sandford Nishel Theophanous Natalie Burnett Emily Hore

Days like today remind me why I love retail. Our Team in Camden had the privilege of hosting the CEO of the IGD, Sarah Bradbury and some of her fabulous team. They wanted to immerse themselves in the heart of retail at one of our busiest times of the year to gain insight into ways they could continue to help industries and work more collaboratively. More importantly they just wanted to “lend a hand” to the store team and help to serve our customers. * Helping to sign up new customers to our More Card loyalty scheme, * Running our checkouts both main bank and self scan, * Jumping on to serve at our busy kiosk, * Replenishing our shelves, * Experiencing our busy multi channel online operation. Phew that sounded exhausting just listing those tasks but they did a fantastic job 👍🏾👌🏾👌🏾 The store team led by Patrick Kemeh Kimberley Williams @jimmy laing did a brilliant job looking after them and showing them the ropes 👏🏾👏🏾 We couldn’t be more proud of our team🤗🤗 To top it off our very own CEO Rami Baitiéh popped in to meet the team and couldn’t resist supporting on checkouts too 🤩 All in all a brilliant day Sarah Bradbury Matthew Stoughton-Harris Sarah Haynes Graham McLean @joan o connor Toby Pickard thank you for being great “New Members of the team” PS - If you ever want a change in career we await with open arms 😜🤣 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎄🌲🤶🎅🏾🌲🎄 Tim Leach Matt Hill Jodie Keating Stuart Kempster

As we're wrapping up for Christmas, we wanted to share with you the #learning opportunities we have for the first month's of 2025! 🎄 📚 Whether you're looking to build on the #skills you've developed this year or exploring new opportunities, scroll through our learning calendar below to check out our upcoming courses and workshops 💡 Secure your spot today to unlock your full #potential with us in 2025👇

The end of 2024 is fast approaching, and that means it's time to fill in our manufacturer benchmarking survey 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiAB_Xw2 👈 Last year, we had an outstanding response to our benchmarking survey, sparking meaningful conversations and action, so we invite you all to again share your insights in our industry-wide survey 💡 The survey results will offer you a glimpse into the operations of high-performing businesses and identify industry gaps, so have your say now 📝

✨ Happy Retail Insights newsletter day! ✨ This week's edition of Retail Insights from our Senior Insight Analyst Lucy-Annie Beaumont summarises the recent European retail #trends, such as Lidl España investing €45m into a sustainable expansion plan 🌎 Click the link below to read more on our latest retail #insights, and make sure to subscribe for expert advice to help you and your business stay informed, inspired and ahead of the competition ⬇

Our latest Viewpoint special, Hungry for growth, is now available to access on our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/d5RJ-haq 👈 This report highlights food #inflation as one of the most significant challenges for UK households in 2025, as well as: 🍏 how the UK food system contributes to the UK #economy 📈 why building food system resilience is essential to achieving economic growth  🛒 our latest #food inflation forecasts and their impacts on shoppers 🏆 the scale of opportunity that can be unlocked across the food system Visit our website to download either the executive summary or the full Viewpoint report now 📓

As we near the end of 2024, our Retail Futures team have released a report highlighting the six global retail trends they expect to see shaping our industry throughout 2025 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3qrtKb9 👈 Our Retail Analysis subscribers can view these trends, as well as our report findings, implications and next steps by viewing the full report on our website now 💻

Don't miss the chance to secure your spot in our first Complete Category Manager Course of 2025! 🥳 This comprehensive course is designed to fast-track your #learning and personal development, equipping you with the tools, techniques and processes needed to excel in category #management 👨🏫 Delivered through six 3-hour virtual sessions, spaced out to seamlessly fit into your work routine. It's a flexible way to enhance your #expertise without overwhelming your workload. Visit our website to book onto this course now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMXthdj6 👈

Tis the season... to find out shopper plans for Christmas 😉 🎄 In our pre-Christmas report, Bryony Perkins and Juliet H. analyse the impact of the budget on shoppers planning to spend what they want this Christmas, conducting a bi-weekly poll with 1000 British Christmas shoppers to collect their data set 🎅 🤶 ShopperVista subscribers can access this report on our website now and find out more about shoppers' Pre-Christmas plans 👉 https://lnkd.in/d64h3pM6 👈