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On September 14, 2025, Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, delivered the opening keynote, The State of AI: What’s Possible, What’s Theoretical, and What It All Means for Retail, at the RetailClub AI Deepdive Retreat.

Drawing on Coresight’s award-winning research, Weinswig examined AI’s foundational, practical, and forward-looking applications in retail. Her keynote provided strategic insights into adopting AI technologies, showcased real-world use cases, highlighted opportunities for operational efficiencies, and explored the tangible impact of AI integration across the industry.

The RetailClub AI Deepdive Retreat—founded by the creators of Shoptalk and Groceryshop—was designed to foster collaboration, accelerate collective learning, and build the retail industry’s AI-native community at a pivotal moment in AI-driven transformation.

Coresight Research partnered with RetailClub on this initiative to advance the industry’s AI capabilities and encouraged retailers and vendors alike to help shape the future of AI in retail.

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Welcome to Analyst Corner! Every Sunday, a member of the Coresight Research team discusses upcoming or recent research and their thoughts on interesting topics in their area of expertise.

This week, Manik Bhatia of Coresight Research discusses the resilience of the US consumption economy as the broader economy grapples with sticky inflation and a stagnant labor market.

Analyst Corner also highlights our key research from the past week and upcoming reports to look out for, so you don’t miss out.

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Read previous Analyst Corner reports, including last week’s report, which discusses the recent resurgence in the US beauty retail market, with beauty retailers such as Bath & Body Works and Ulta Beauty reporting solid growth in their most recent quarters.
Sentiment Dives, Tariff Pessimism Deepens, Reactive Shopping Entrenches: US Consumer Survey Insights
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The Weekly US Consumer Sentiment Infographic series from Coresight Research provides a one-page data graphic on US consumers’ sentiment toward personal financial prospects and economic prospects.

Data in this infographic are:

US consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their own personal financial situation over the next 12 months—the latest six months of weekly trend data
Selected callouts on key changes and data points

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The full US Consumer Survey Insights reports from which these graphics feature highlights
The accompanying US Consumer Survey Databank
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Understand the latest shifts in UK retail store networks as openings remain ahead of closures for 2025.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

Which retailers contributed most to the increase in store openings and closures this week—and why?
Which brands are continuing to expand, despite a challenging retail environment?
How do 2025 store openings and closures compare to 2024, and what are the key trends behind the year-over-year changes?

Companies mentioned in this report include: Belstaff, Bensons for Beds, Bodycare, BPerfect, Columbia Sportswear, Grape Tree, HMV, Iceland, Mountain Warehouse, Pockets, Quiz, Søstrene Grene and Yours Clothing.

Data in this report include: weekly totals of UK store closures and openings for 2025 and 2024; retailer-level breakdowns of announced versus confirmed closures/openings.

Other relevant research:

The full collection of Store Tracker reports, including our US-focused series
The US and UK Store Tracker Databank is the definitive resource for information on store openings and closures by sector in the US and UK retail industries.
The Corporate and Financial Developments Databank includes details of management changes, financial guidance updates, retail and tech layoffs and capital raised by major retail companies.
The Retail Bankruptcies Databank details bankruptcies of US and UK retail companies, restaurants and gyms since March 2020.

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Uncover which retailers are driving the surge in US store closures—and who’s still expanding.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

Which retailers led this week’s spike in store closures and new openings across the US?
How do 2025 store closure and opening trends compare to 2024—and what does the data reveal about retail health?

Companies mentioned in this report include: Alimentation Couche-Tard, American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Camping World, Casey’s, Designer Brands, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, EB Denim, H Mart, J.Jill, LEGO, Miniso, Monos, Prada, Santoni, Shoe Carnival, Shoppers Food, Tuckernuck and Walmart.

Data in this report include: weekly totals of US store closures and openings for 2025 and 2024; retailer-level breakdowns of announced versus confirmed closures/openings; total store counts by retailer; total US retail bankruptcies year to date.

Other relevant research:

The full collection of Store Tracker reports, including our UK-focused series
The US and UK Store Tracker Databank is the definitive resource for information on store openings and closures by sector in the US and UK retail industries.
The Corporate and Financial Developments Databank includes details of management changes, financial guidance updates, retail and tech layoffs and capital raised by major retail companies.
The Retail Bankruptcies Databank details bankruptcies of US and UK retail companies, restaurants and gyms since March 2020.

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How are consumers shifting their purchases due to tariffs? This data graphic explores the extent of early shopping in US retail, by category, and the extent to which consumers expect to buy less later in the year. This graphic is based on a proprietary September 2025 survey of US consumers.

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Holiday Shopping Starts in the Summer: Tariffs Trigger Ultra-Early Holiday Shopping in 2025—Data Graphic
The Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.

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The Coresight Research monthly US Consumer Survey Insights Extra series offers a more detailed or specific take on trends and data from our weekly surveys of US consumers.

In this report, we dive into shopper demographics, based on our proprietary survey data. Discover shopper profiles for major US retailers in food and nonfood and explore our sector-focused findings to understand the customer bases of apparel, footwear and beauty retailers.

Discover how demographic shifts are reshaping US retail—and which retailers are winning in a polarized, fragmented marketplace.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

How are income, age and ethnicity driving diverging shopping patterns across food and nonfood retail?
Which retailers are attracting high-income vs. low-income consumers—and how do age and urbanicity influence these trends?
What are the key generational, income and ethnic skews in apparel, footwear and beauty retail today?
How do regional differences shape food and nonfood shopping behavior across the US?
What should retailers focus on now to stay competitive amid fragmentation, trade-down behavior and evolving sentiment?

Data in this research report include: Shopper age and income profiles by retailer; urban vs. rural shopper base; shopping behavior by income, age, ethnicity and region; quarterly apparel, footwear and beauty shopper data; monthly consumer sentiment and retail purchasing trends.

Companies mentioned in this report include: Academy Sports + Outdoors, Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons, Amazon, American Eagle, Converse, Costco, Crocs, CVS, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dollar General, DSW, eBay, Foot Locker, Instagram, JCPenney, Jordan, Kohl’s, Kroger, Lululemon, Macy’s, Nike, Nordstrom, Ross Stores, Sally Beauty, Sephora, Shein, Skechers, Target, Temu, TikTok, TJX, Trader Joe’s, Ulta, Urban Outfitters, Walmart, Walgreens, Whole Foods, YouTube and Zara.

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US Holiday 2025: Early Outlook—Improving Signals, But Will It Last?
Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.

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Discover how US consumers are reacting to rising tariffs, inflation, and a weakening economic outlook.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

How is consumer sentiment trending across income groups—and what does it mean for spending and confidence?
Why are shoppers increasingly pessimistic about tariffs, and how are their behaviors shifting in response?
What are the top concerns and perceived benefits of new US tariffs, according to consumers?
How are inflation and price awareness shaping consumer trade-down behaviors in food and nonfood?
Which retailers and product categories are consumers turning to in light of economic pressure?

Data in this research report include: Consumer sentiment by income and time; perceptions of tariff impacts; inflation-driven trade-down behaviors; pull-forward and reduced spending by category; and retailer and category-level shopping data.

Companies mentioned in this report include: Albertsons Company, Amazon, Costco, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, eBay, Kohl’s, Kroger, Macy’s, Target, The TJX Companies and Walmart.

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US Holiday 2025: Early Outlook—Improving Signals, But Will It Last?
Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.

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Discover which private companies are transforming retail marketing—and how AI is reshaping MarTech strategies.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

Which companies are categorized as Challengers, Emerging Players, Disruptors, and Future Leaders in the retail MarTech space?
What market forces are driving the complexity and urgency around MarTech adoption for retailers today?
Why are flexible, AI-powered platforms key to solving fragmentation in retail marketing stacks?
How does each featured company’s innovation and market potential position them for long-term success?
What metrics define innovation and market power in the Coresight Research Innovator Matrix?

This Innovator Matrix is a counterpart to our recent Retail-Tech Landscape: MarTech, which presents a segmented longlist of innovators in this space.

Companies mentioned in this report include: Amperity, Bloomreach, Bluecore, CleverTap, Insider, Iterable, MoEngage, Optimove, Skai and Smartly.

Data in this report include: Global retail MarTech market size forecasts; Coresight Research’s MarTech Innovator Matrix quadrant; descriptions of company-level product innovation and market positioning.

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Learn the key plays necessary for successfully deploying an intelligent inventory platform. Readers will understand how to view strategy, technology, operations, resilience and ethics in selecting technology, vendors and other essential criteria to enjoy a leading-edge inventory-management and optimization platform. The report’s Playbook format clearly lays out each category with a recommended action.

This report answers the following questions:

How should retailers and brands prepare for the journey to a modern inventory platform?
What kinds of data repositories are available and what are their relative advantages?
What do retailers and brands need to consider once an inventory platform has been deployed?
How can intelligent inventory platforms help retailers recover quickly from inevitable supply-chain shocks?
What types of inventory platforms can help retailers address their unique ethical concerns?

Companies mentioned in this report include: Afresh, Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Badger Technologies, Bamboo Rose, Board International, Blue Yonder, Centric Software, Inc., Guac AI, Impact Analytics, Infor, Inc., Invent.ai, Manhattan Associates, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, RELEX Solutions, Revionics, a division of Aptos Retail, SAP SE, SAS Software, Simbe Robotics, Snowflake Inc., Upshop, Zebra Technologies Corporation

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Welcome to Analyst Corner! Every Sunday, a member of the Coresight Research team discusses upcoming or recent research and their thoughts on interesting topics in their area of expertise.

This week, John Mercer and Madhav Pitaliya of Coresight Research discuss the recent resurgence in the US beauty retail market, with beauty retailers, such as Bath & Body Works and Ulta Beauty, reporting solid growth in their most recent quarters.

Analyst Corner also highlights our key research from the past week and upcoming reports to look out for, so you don’t miss out.

Other relevant research:

Read previous Analyst Corner reports, including last week’s report, in which John Harmon, Director of Technology Research, discusses the fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding the use of electronic shelf labels to implement surge pricing in grocery, and considers whether those concerns are justified.
The Beauty Conversion Architecture: From Discovery to Purchase—Powering Beauty Companies’ Growth in 2025 and Beyond
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Transforming Beauty Retail: AI Across the Value Chain, from Innovation to Personalization
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Coresight Research is a research partner of Groceryshop 2025, an annual conference that helps businesses navigate the evolving grocery landscape, exploring the latest business models, advanced technologies and shifting consumer behaviors.

The conference will take place from September 28 to October 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada, US.

Plan your time at Groceryshop 2025 with this essential guide to key sessions across four themes in grocery and CPG retail, from AI-powered operations to retail media.

Don’t miss out on opportunities to drive growth and innovation in your business! We look forward to seeing you at Groceryshop 2025.

Executive Summary

Coresight Research is a research partner of Groceryshop 2025, an annual conference that brings together global retailers, brands and technology leaders to discuss trends, innovations and strategies shaping the future of grocery and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Taking place in Las Vegas, US, from September 28 to October 1, 2025, the conference will cover four major themes in CPG and grocery retail.

Coresight Research Insights

Notable Themes

Efficient and AI-Powered Grocery Operations: Efficiency is the backbone of modern grocery retail, and AI is driving the next wave of operational transformation. Given the continued squeeze on margins, retailers are under pressure to control costs, streamline supply chains and provide a seamless shopping experience. Today, grocers and consumer brands have many AI tools to unlock efficiency and engage shoppers more effectively. These include AI agents for marketing, demand forecasting solutions, dynamic pricing tools and software to mitigate shrink.
Understanding, Captivating and Retaining Shoppers: Grocery for today and tomorrow requires staying ahead of consumer trends and delivering engaging and personalized shopping experiences. This means paying close attention to the way shoppers’ values, lifestyles and expectations are shifting, and translating those insights into strategies that make customers feel understood and valued.
The Next Frontier for Retail Media (and New Revenue Streams): Retail media is a fast-growing market that is gaining share of overall ad spending globally and outpacing ad formats, such as linear TV and search. Retailers are building retail media networks (RMNs) with differentiated value propositions, while advertisers are working to integrate retail media into their larger marketing and media plans.
Building Unified and Future-Ready Organizations: Modern consumers effortlessly transition between brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms to shop. Retailers must therefore strive to craft a cohesive and seamless shopping experience, moving beyond “omnichannel” to “unified commerce,” which entails integrating all channels and touchpoints onto a single platform with the shopper at the center of thinking, rather than the industry construct of retail channels.

Introduction

Coresight Research is a research partner of Groceryshop 2025, which will take place from September 28 to October 1 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Groceryshop is an annual conference that helps businesses navigate the evolving grocery landscape, exploring the latest business models, advanced technologies and shifting consumer behaviors.

The Coresight Research team will be in attendance and looks forward to meeting you at Groceryshop 2025. Coresight Research CEO and Founder Deborah Weinswig will be the emcee and lead judge for the Shark Reef Startup Pitch on September 29 (more details below).

In this essential guide to the event, we highlight notable sessions for attendees across four major themes, as identified by the Groceryshop team. All times in this report are Pacific Time (PT; local time of the event).

To ensure you don’t miss out on critical insights during the conference, we will provide daily coverage of Groceryshop 2025 on coresight.com.

Your Guide to Groceryshop 2025: Coresight Research Insights

Groceryshop 2025 will bring together more than 5,000 senior executives from leading retailers, brands and technology companies across over 50 countries to connect, strategize and shape the future of grocery retail. With over 150 global speakers, the event will deliver critical insights on digital commerce, consumer engagement, operational excellence and breakthrough innovations transforming the industry.

Reflecting the ongoing mission to explore the very best of grocery globally, prominent international retailer and CPG speakers (across the agenda) include:

Tim Steiner, CEO, Ocado Group
Neil Reynolds, Global Chief Customer & Digital Commerce Officer, Mars Snacking
Lauren Steinberg, EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Media & Loyalty, Loblaw
Manuel Queiroz, Partner, Bright Pixel Capital (Sonae)
Wassim Makarem, Chief Retail Officer, talabat
Oliver Vogt, CEO, Transcend, Tesco
Alejandra Restrepo, Head of Mercado Ads Mexico, Mercado Libre
Mustafa Bartin, Retail CEO, Migros Turkey
Anders Mittag, Chief Commercial Officer, Lobyco, Coop Denmark
Sjeord Holleman, Chief Product Officer, Albert Heijn
Shaoming Yang, VP, Dingdong Fresh

New to this year’s program is the “Test Kitchen”, an immersive series of 40-minute sessions curated by analysts and executives to show use cases for deploying new technologies, especially AI, across the grocery ecosystem. Attendees will explore specialized applications, including preparing data and tech stacks for agentic AI, enhancing product recommendations with GenAI, optimizing store layouts and shelf space and improving forecasting and negotiations through predictive analytics.

The Test Kitchen joins other interactive experiences such as the Store of Tomorrow, which will highlight next-generation in-store technologies, and the event’s signature Meetup program, which connects participants with other attendees who align with their goals and objectives to maximize the quality of meetings scheduled across the event.

Notable Sessions Across Four Major Themes

Below, we present the four major themes and related notable sessions shaping Groceryshop’s 2025 agenda.

1. Efficient and AI-Powered Grocery Operations

Efficiency is the backbone of modern grocery retail, and AI is driving the next wave of operational transformation. Given a continued squeeze on margins, retailers are under pressure to control costs, streamline supply chains and provide a seamless shopping experience. Today, grocers and consumer brands have many AI tools to unlock efficiency and engage shoppers more effectively. These include AI agents for marketing, demand forecasting solutions, dynamic pricing tools and software to mitigate shrink.

At Groceryshop, sessions under this theme will explore new strategies and technologies that unlock efficiencies across retail and consumer brand organizations, from store operations to marketing to loss prevention.

Coresight Research Insight: AI, ML and GenAI underpin Coresight Research’s retail technology trends for 2025, for their ability to quickly and accurately mine vast datasets for relationships, anomalies and growth opportunities. Coresight Research has developed the CORE framework for AI in retail to give retailers and brands a head start in strategizing around AI deployment. The framework classifies the applications of AI within four main categories that can help retailers win new business, run their operations more efficiently and create stronger relationships with their customers.

Agentic AI is one of the top technology trends that Coresight Research predicts will impact retail in 2025 and beyond. Coresight Research expects that agentic AI will revolutionize retail, as well as many other industries, over the next five years. We estimate that just over half (51%) of enterprise software applications will be “agentified,” meaning that they will use AI agents to some degree, by 2029.

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Groceryshop Sessions

Time	Session	Track	Speakers/Panelists
Sunday, September 28
1.45 p.m.–2.25 p.m.	Test Kitchen: New SEO Strategies in a Generative AI World	Kitchen A	Elena MacGurn, SVP, Search, Digitas (Interviewer)
1.45 p.m.–2.25 p.m.	Test Kitchen: Preparing Your Data and Tech Stack for Agentic AI	Kitchen B	Brian Bell, VP, Strategy & Planning, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Jason Cottrell, CEO & Founder, Orium (Presenter & Interviewer)
3.25 p.m.–4.05 p.m.	Test Kitchen: Effective AI Use Cases for Alcohol and Spirits	Kitchen B	Nathan Mansperger, VP, Digital Account Execution, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
3.25 p.m.–4.05 p.m.	Rapid Fire: Technologies Poised to Transform Grocery and CPG	Unbottled Stage	Greg Zeh, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Weis Markets Manuel Queiroz, Partner, Bright Pixel Capital (Sonae) Anne Mezzenga, Co-CEO, Omni Talk (Interviewer)
Monday, September 29
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	Stores of the Future: Maximizing Efficiency and Engagement	Moptimization Stage	Kim Anderson, VP, Store Operations Support, Schnucks Neil Stern, CEO, Good Food Holdings Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures, IGD (Presenter & Interviewer)
9.50 a.m.–10.30 a.m.	Tech-Enabled Associates: Boosting Productivity and Satisfaction	Moptimization Stage	Mustafa Bartin, Retail CEO, Migros Turkey Raghu Mahadevan, EVP, Logistics & Chief Digital Officer, 7-Eleven
Tuesday, September 30
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	Track Keynote: Scaling Online Grocery	Ripe Ideas Stage	Lauren Steinberg, EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Media & Loyalty, Loblaw Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures, IGD (Interviewer) Justin Weinstein, EVP, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Giant Eagle Inc.
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	AI-Powered Pricing and Promotions	Moptimization Stage	Sebastian Bak, Managing Director & Partner, BCG Prabash Coswatte, Chief Operating Officer, Heritage Grocers Group
9.50 a.m.–10.30 a.m.	Agentic AI Solutions Boosting Efficiency	Greenlight Stage	Vic Miles, Region Business Leader, Americas, Microsoft Lori Schafer, CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Wave Technology Rahul Choraria, CEO, Pacvue Matt Nichols, Partner, Commerce Ventures (Interviewer)
Wednesday, October 1
9.30 a.m.–10.10 a.m.	Test Kitchen: Effective AI Use Cases for Independent Grocers	Kitchen A	Bruce Hatch, Chief Information Officer, Harmons Grocery
9.30 a.m.–10.10 a.m.	Test Kitchen: Agentic AI and Predictive Analytics for Sales Negotiations	Kitchen B	N/A
10.20 a.m.–11.00 a.m.	Strategies for Perfecting Fulfillment and Delivery	Moptimization Stage	Wassim Makarem, Chief Retail Officer, talabat Dennys Guillermo Espinoza Torres, Head of Omnichannel, Chedraui Tony Ward, Partner/Principal, Retail & Supply Chain, Ernst & Young (Interviewer)
11.10 a.m.–11.50 a.m.	Test Kitchen: Enhancing Product Recommendations with Generative AI	Kitchen A	Benjamin Thompson, CEO, AytonLeigh Consulting (Interviewer)
11.10 a.m.–11.50 a.m.	Test Kitchen: AI Tools for Precise Forecasting and Inventory Levels	Kitchen B	N/A

2. Understanding, Captivating and Retaining Shoppers

Grocery for today and tomorrow requires staying ahead of consumer trends and delivering engaging and personalized shopping experiences. This means paying close attention to the way shoppers’ values, lifestyles and expectations are shifting, and translating those insights into strategies that make customers feel understood and valued.

At Groceryshop, sessions under this theme will cover the latest consumer preferences and tactics that will help brands and retailers drive volumes, grow basket sizes and build stronger loyalty.

Coresight Research Insight: After several years of food-at-home inflation—and with the added risk of new tariff-driven price increases—shoppers are becoming more cautious at the grocery store. According to a proprietary Coresight Research survey conducted on August 4, 2025, more than half of consumers (56.1%) list higher prices for goods among their top three concerns related to new US tariffs. This concern is already manifesting in behavior: rising prices are prompting many shoppers to adjust their grocery shopping habits. According to the same survey, three in five consumers (60.8%) who have observed inflation in retail said they are trading down, whether by switching to cheaper brands, shopping at lower-priced retailers or choosing private-label products.

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Groceryshop Sessions

Time	Session	Track	Speakers/Panelists
Sunday, September 28
2.35 p.m.–3.15 p.m.	Balancing Wide-Ranging Consumer Behaviors and Shopping Habits	Unbottled Stage	Jennie Bell, Managing Director, Snacks & Beverages, NielsenIQ Sonya Gafsi Oblisk, Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer, Whole Foods Market
Monday, September 29
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	Appealing to Value-Obsessed Shoppers	Unbottled Stage	Louise Fritjofsson, Founder & CEO, Martie Ryan Draude, Head of Loyalty & Digital, Giant Food Adgild Hop, Partner, European Retail Market Lead, Deloitte (Presenter & Interviewer)
10.40 a.m.–11.20 a.m.	GLP-1’s Lasting Impact on Consumer Preferences	Unbottled Stage	Leigh O’Donnell, Head of Shopper & Category Insights, Kantar Linda Bethea, CMO, North America, Danone
2.10 p.m.–2.30 p.m.	Keynote	Keynote Stage	Joel Rampoldt, CEO, Lidl US Ben Miller, VP, Original Content & Strategy, Groceryshop (Interviewer)
2.50 p.m.–3.10 p.m.	Keynote	Keynote Stage	Jack Sinclair, CEO, Sprouts Farmers Market Chris Walton, Co-CEO, Omni Talk (Interviewer)
Tuesday, September 30
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	New Approaches to Brand Building and Storytelling	Unbottled Stage	Benoit Vatere, Chief Media Officer, Liquid Death Sarah Bakx, President, BOLD Brands (Treasury Wine Estates) Julie Bowerman, CMO, Kellanova Sarah Engel, President, January Digital (Interviewer)
Wednesday, October 1
9.30 a.m.–10.10 a.m.	Reimagining Search And Discovery	Unbottled Stage	Simon Rodeiro, Vice President Digital Commerce & Omni-Channel Marketing, PIM Brands Alicia LeBeouf, Head of Industry, Retail & Grocery, Meta Sam Tomlinson, EVP, Warschawski (Interviewer)
10.20 a.m.–11.00 a.m.	Channels Blending Engagement and Commerce	Unbottled Stage	Amanda Parker, Head of Food, TikTok Shop Toby Espinosa, VP, Ads & Growth Services, DoorDash Ekta Chopra, Chief Digital Officer, e.l.f. Beauty Jason Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer, Publicis Groupe (Interviewer)
11.10 a.m.–11.50 a.m.	Leveling Up Loyalty with Gamification and Personalization	Unbottled Stage	Whitney Johnson, SVP of Marketing, EG America

3. The Next Frontier for Retail Media (and New Revenue Streams)

Retail media is a fast-growing market that is gaining share of overall ad spending globally and outpacing ad formats, such as linear TV and search. Brand advertisers are increasingly realizing the potential of retail media in delivering personalized product experiences that drive both awareness and conversion, fueling brand interest in niche and differentiated RMNs in addition to established RMNs.

At Groceryshop, sessions will explore how retailers build successful retail media networks that offer a differentiated value proposition, and how advertisers best integrate retail media into their larger marketing and media plans. Additionally, retailers and consumer brands will share how they are pursuing new revenue streams to supplement their core business.

Coresight Research Insight: Coresight Research estimates that the global retail media market will reach $179.5 billion in 2025, up 15.4% year over year, and grow at a CAGR of 14.1% from 2023 to 2028. Although still a relatively new channel for advertisers, retail media is steadily taking a larger share of ad spend. We calculate that retail media accounted for 20.6% of the $752.8 billion global advertising market in 2024, and we expect its share to rise to 23.2% of the projected $772.4 billion market in 2025.

Retail media can help retailers monetize their data and generate additional revenue while offering brands alternative channels to influence shopper behavior effectively. Advances in data collection, storage and processing will continue to drive the effectiveness of retailers’ first-party data, which will benefit the expansion of the retail media market. Solving challenges like limited in-store ad units, attribution issues and a lack of standardization through innovation and automation should propel retail media to even greater heights.

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Groceryshop Sessions

Time	Session	Track	Speakers/Panelists
Sunday, September 28
2.35 p.m.–3.15 p.m.	Test Kitchen: Advanced Data and Measurement Capabilities for Retail Media	Kitchen A	Liz Roche, VP, Media & Measurement, Albertsons Media Collective Manish Sharma, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Think Blue (Presenter & Interviewer) Mike Glaser, VP Commerce Media, PepsiCo
3.25 p.m.–4.05 p.m.	Next-Level Collaboration: How Retailers and Brands Drive Growth Together	Ripe Ideas Stage	Eric Skae, CEO, Carbone Fine Food Joe Sta-Romana, Chief Customer Officer, US, Haleon Heather Hughes, Group VP, General Merchandise Manager of Health, Wellness & Nutrition, Walgreens Keith LaFrance, Partner, The Partnering Group (Interviewer)
Monday, September 29
9.00 a.m.–9.40 a.m.	Designing Best-in-Class Retail Media Networks	Ripe Ideas Stage	Bobby Watts, SVP AD Retail Media & Digital Merchandising, Ahold Delhaize USA Christine Foster, SVP, Kroger Precision Marketing Abi Subramanian, Group VP, Loyalty, Walgreens Advertising Group & Owned Asset Monetization, Walgreens Michele Roney, EVP, Retailer CX, Mars United Commerce (Interviewer)
9.50 a.m.–10.30 a.m.	Integrating Retail Media into Broader Marketing and Sales Plans	Ripe Ideas Stage	Danielle Sporkin, SVP, Media & Marketing Services, Ferrero Katie Neil, Head of Connected Commerce, The Coca-Cola Company Ajay Sharma, VP, eCommerce & OmniChannel, Target & Emerging Platforms, North America, Bayer Consumer Health Molly Hop, EVP & North American Lead of Havas Market, Havas Media Network (Interviewer)
10.40 a.m.–11.20 a.m.	Full-Funnel Retail Media: Embracing Offsite and In-Store	Ripe Ideas Stage	Cristina Marinucci, VP, Global Growth & Omni Commercial Insights, Mondelēz International Ali Miller, General Manager, Advertising, Instacart Alejandra Restrepo, Head of Mercado Ads Mexico, Mercado Libre Sarah Marzano, Principal Analyst, Retail & Commerce Media, EMARKETER (Interviewer)
Tuesday, September 30
9.50 a.m.–10.30 a.m.	Thinking Beyond the Core: Investment in B2B Services	Ripe Ideas Stage	Oliver Vogt, CEO, Transcend, Tesco Anders Mittag, Chief Commercial Officer, Lobyco, Coop Denmark Sean Ransenberg, Managing Director & GM, Retail Media, H-E-B Jennifer Conklin, VP, Retail Technologies, Capgemini (Interviewer)
10.40 a.m.–11.20 a.m.	New Strategies and Models that Drive Additional Revenue	Ripe Ideas Stage	Brett Matthews, Chairman & CEO, Kate Farms

4. Building Unified and Future-Ready Organizations

Modern consumers effortlessly transition between brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms to shop. Retailers must therefore strive to craft a cohesive and seamless shopping experience, moving beyond “omnichannel” to “unified commerce,” which entails integrating all channels and touchpoints onto a single platform with the shopper at the center of thinking, rather than the industry construct of retail channels.

At Groceryshop, sessions will cover topics ranging from leveraging data across their organizations to restructuring digital teams, offering detailed examples of how retailers and brands are driving digital transformation and preparing for the future.

Coresight Research Insights: Today’s consumers increasingly blend multiple channels—such as online, in-store and mobile apps—in their shopping journeys. According to a July 2024 Coresight Research survey of 404 US consumers, 65.8% of respondents used multiple channels, such as online, in-store and mobile apps, to some degree when shopping, indicating a strong consumer preference for flexible shopping options.

By seamlessly integrating a range of platforms—such as online stores, mobile apps, physical retail locations and social media shops—retailers can engage buyers wherever they are most active, create new touchpoints and increase the likelihood of shoppers completing a purchase. According to the same survey, nearly one-quarter of respondents reported that their overall spending has increased either significantly (8.2%) or slightly (16.6%) as a result of engaging with retailers across multiple channels, highlighting the potential for retailers to boost sales with a seamless and unified approach.

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Groceryshop Sessions

Time	Session	Track		Speakers/Panelists
Sunday, September 28
2.35 p.m.–3.15 p.m.	Test Kitchen: Optimizing Store Layouts and Shelf Space		Kitchen B	Jill Wang, Managing Director & Partner, BCG (Interviewer)
3.25 p.m.–4.05 p.m.	Test Kitchen: Building Personalized and Dynamic Product Detail Pages		Kitchen A	N/A
4.30 p.m.–4.50 p.m.	Keynote		Keynote Stage	Susan Anderson, Global Head of Delivery, Uber
4.50 p.m.–5.10 p.m.	Keynote		Keynote Stage	Tim Steiner, CEO, Ocado Group
Monday, September 29
10.40 a.m.–11.20 a.m.	Seamless and Secure Stores: Minimizing Friction and Deterring Theft	Moptimization Stage		Gaurav Pant, Co-Founder & Chief Insights Officer, Incisiv (Interviewer)
Tuesday, September 30
10.40 a.m.–11.20 a.m.	Track Keynote: Crafting Unified and Seamless Shopping Experiences	Unbottled Stage		Neil Reynolds, Global Chief Customer & Digital Commerce Officer, Mars Wrigley Ben Miller, VP, Original Content & Strategy, Groceryshop (Interviewer)
Wednesday, October 1
9.30 a.m.–10.10 a.m.	Embracing Agility and Innovation	Ripe Ideas Stage		Emily Xu, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Republic National Distributing Company Alastair Dorward, CEO, Dropps Alice Ponti, SVP of Innovation & Strategy, VentureFuel (Interviewer)
10.20 a.m.–11.00 a.m.	Unifying Data and Teams Across the Organization	Ripe Ideas Stage		Alan Wizemann, Chief Digital Officer, Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits Deepak Jose, VP & Head of Data & Decision Intelligence, Niagara Bottling Shweta Prabhu, VP, Digital, MarTech, Enterprise Systems, Data & Analytics, Giant Eagle

Notes and Methodology

Groceryshop 2025 agenda details are accurate as of August 29, 2025.

Informing the data in this report are two online surveys of US consumers aged 18+, conducted by Coresight Research on August 4, 2025 (403 respondents) and July 8, 2024 (404 respondents). The results have a margin of error of +/-5%, at a 95% confidence level. Visit our Methodology page to read more context for understanding the results of Coresight Research surveys.

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Notable Themes

Introduction

Your Guide to Groceryshop 2025: Coresight Research Insights

Notable Sessions Across Four Major Themes

1. Efficient and AI-Powered Grocery Operations

2. Understanding, Captivating and Retaining Shoppers

3. The Next Frontier for Retail Media (and New Revenue Streams)

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4. Building Unified and Future-Ready Organizations

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