Behind the Bubbles: Mastering the Laundry Aisle for Retailers
Unlocking the secrets to a successful laundry aisle can significantly impact retail success, given the laundry category's substantial £1.7bn value in the UK market. In this article, we delve into the intricacies of choosing the right laundry range, focusing primarily on detergents. From understanding shopper segments to navigating brand preferences and product formats, we unravel the key considerations that drive sales and enhance customer satisfaction. Join us as we explore the nuances of this essential category and uncover strategies to optimise your laundry offerings for maximum impact and growth.The Big Spring Clean: A Market Worth £104M
The Spring Cleaning event is well-known but, as a convenience retailer, should you be interested in it?
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Why You Need to Stock Hair Masks in 2023
A fairly recent innovation, hair masks are an essential part of a hair care routine as they provide extra nourishment and hydration to your hair beyond what conventional conditioning products offer. Accordingly, consumers expect these products within their preferred haircare brand of choice.
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How Important is it to Stock Healthier Snacking?
January is traditionally the time for ditching the fat, sugar and beer and replacing them with carrots, lettuce and water. Some people take to this more enthusiastically than others, but there’s no doubt that January is the right time to beef up your healthier snacking range.
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Follow These Tips to Avoid Losing Sales in 2023
With inflation at a 40-year high and wage rises failing to keep pace, you could be forgiven for thinking that shoppers are stripping the shelves of all the entry-level value products and leaving all the more premium lines to gather dust. BUT… you’d be wrong.
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Dental Care: The £1 Billion Market
Everybody brushes their teeth, right? Yes, they do (with very few exceptions).
Twice a day? The number drops off here, more than you might think.
Dentists recommend you change your toothbrush every three months – people do that, right? Well… not even I do that, and I’m working with this information every day. I know I should, but then I think… I’ll just push it a little longer.
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How DCS & Unilever are Working Together Towards a Strong 2023
Our relationships with our suppliers are crucial to our success as a business, and it’s important that our sales and commercial teams stay up to date with all the latest information about the products we sell. On the 21st and 22nd of September, the DCS sales and commercial teams visited the Unilever offices to do just that.
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Attract Loyal Shoppers with Baby Feeding
The baby feeding category can be easily neglected by wholesalers and retailers, but to do so would be a missed opportunity to grow sales and build a loyal customer base.
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How Household Cleaning Can Give a Huge Boost to Your Sales
We all know that Household Cleaning products got a huge sales boost during the pandemic. Stock was flying off the shelves just as quickly as it could be replaced, and manufacturers were diverting all their expertise and resources to keep up with demand. We saw a swathe of product updates too, with antibacterial capabilities added to products that were previously lacking, to help the nation stop the spread of the infection.
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