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Discount Decades—US Grocery Discounters: Poised for Growth Amid Inflation and Economic Uncertainty

As part of our new, forward-looking Discount Decades series, we discuss the future of the main players operating in the US grocery discounter landscape, namely Aldi US, Save A Lot, Grocery Outlet and Lidl US. We discuss their revenues, profitability, store expansion, demographic profiles and success strategies, and assess their potential for future growth.

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Retail Shrink and ORC: Self-Checkout and Store Closures, the INFORM Consumers Act, US Retailer Commentary

In this first report in our new monthly series on retail shrink and organized retail crime (ORC), we discuss the size of the inventory shrink challenge in the US and present developments in theft and related incidents in the US and the UK from the past few months. We also provide commentary on the topic from US retailers’ recent earnings calls. This report covers the INFORM Consumers Act, Target’s store closures, Walmart’s self-checkout closures and more.

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