For many reasons, the time is right for SKU rationalization, said Jim Hertel, managing partner, Willard Bishop, Barrington, Ill. With conventional supermarket operators under continuing pressure from ...

Grocery assortment planning has been upended by omnichannel. Grocers had been comfortable relying on broader, older models that identified underperforming products to remove from a store shelf, or ...

Kantar has launched RichMix eAssort, an assortment optimization tool designed to use transferable demand curves to measure the incremental impact of changing the items and facings in a retailer’s mix ...