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Looking ahead to – and preparing for – a bright 2021
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What to Look for When Choosing a POS Management Tool for your Beverage-Alcohol Distributorship
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February 3, 2021 | Blog
Looking ahead to – and preparing for – a bright 2021
Surveys indicate the consumer wants to spend some of those trillions – and one of the top activities consumers have said they’re looking forward to spending money on is dining out. The US consumer, suffering from COVID-fatigue, is looking forward to patronizing both fast-food and gourmet-fare establishments alike and every type of restaurant in-between.
October 20, 2020 | Blog
What to Look for When Choosing a POS Management Tool for your Beverage-Alcohol Distributorship
For many BA distributors over the past couple of years, automating POS ordering, they discovered, wasn’t enough. The time savings and even the inventory accounting were helpful but POS, they reasoned, should also be about increasing sales (revenue) and profit (income).
August 18, 2020 | Blog
Can We Please Get Back to Work? Yes, Yes We Can!
Americans are getting back to work, earning, and, you guessed it, we want to spend. Now’s the time to start (or restart) or accelerate your point-of-sale (POS) marketing engine.
July 13, 2020 | Blog
The New Normal Shopper — Post COVID-19
To address shoppers’ fragmentation, measuring your POS initiatives effectivity and efficiency — i.e., your POS Campaigns’ ROI — is critical. Knowing the impact of your fragmented POS programs is difficult, perhaps impossible, without a system that can track your POS from ordering to placement to ROI.
April 24, 2020 | Blog
Guest Blog: What Is Shopper Marketing? An Alternative Shopper Marketing Definition
Shopper marketing is the process of understanding shoppers and using that understanding to develop a marketing mix which influences shopper behavior in such a way as to positively impact consumption of the brand and or category
April 10, 2020 | Blog
WSJ: Coronavirus Closed the Bars. America Stocked the Liquor Cabinet.
In today’s blog, we take you “behind the paywall” to share some interesting data about beer, wine and spirits sales.
March 22, 2020 | Blog
Can Off-Premise POS Play a Positive Role in the Current Crisis?
We in the beverage distribution industry have access to a unique messaging system that can help spread the word — and help slow the spread of the virus: In-house print shops.
January 31, 2020 | Blog
11 Alcohol Trends to Watch in the Year Ahead — And the Value of Monitoring Analytics
Beverage-alcohol industry analytics are increasingly being used to identify and forecast market trends for 2020. Distributors, as they formulate their POS marketing initiatives, can greatly benefit from an understanding of an increasingly dynamic market.
December 6, 2019 | Blog
3 Observations About Winning at-Retail in Today’s Changing Market
To make sure your advertising is most effective, it's important for your branding to be as unique as your brand itself. You can no longer rely on the “price sells” approach and focus your POS on telling the shopper yours is the least expensive fill-in-the-blank beer.
October 11, 2019 | Point-of-Sale Marketing
Three Strategies for Standing Out in an Increasingly Crowded Retail Environment
If you’re selling beer, wine, and spirits, you know the retail landscape at all but the smallest of retail stores is already crowded and getting more so every day. Here are three approaches beverage-alcohol wholesalers working with retailers can adapt to stand out in a crowded market.
