{"id":9922,"date":"2023-07-21T21:10:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/the-evolution-of-assortment-and-vr-with-kantars-perfect-category\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T21:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:10:12","slug":"the-evolution-of-assortment-and-vr-with-kantars-perfect-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/the-evolution-of-assortment-and-vr-with-kantars-perfect-category\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of assortment and VR with Kantar&#8217;s Perfect Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jun 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>In Episode #12 of Kantar&#8217;s Retail Sound Bites, hosts Barry<br \/>\nThomas, senior retail thought leader, and Rachel Dalton, head of<br \/>\nretail insights, discuss the rise of VR and cutting-edge assortment<br \/>\ntechnology. Also, get timely news and notes in retail, including<br \/>\nLowe&#8217;s technology, McDonald&#8217;s franchisee agreements, Canada&#8217;s ban<br \/>\nof single use plastic, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This episode also features Kantar\u2019s Eric Stenbroten, senior<br \/>\ndirector perfect category and Geoff Wissman, direct perfect<br \/>\ncategory solutions, to discuss recent innovations in assortment and<br \/>\ncategory management technology.<\/p>\n<p>Have a topic you would like to see us cover? Share your request<br \/>\nby emailing\u00a0Switchon@kantar.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/21\/canada-is-banning-single-use-plastics-by-the-end-of-the-year-.html<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ORozyNN8yv\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instacart.com\/company\/updates\/expanding-with-walmart-canada-to-launch-a-new-virtual-convenience-store-powered-by-instacart-platform\/\">Expanding with Walmart Canada to Pilot a New Virtual Convenience Store, Powered by Instacart Platform\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Expanding with Walmart Canada to Pilot a New Virtual Convenience Store, Powered by Instacart Platform\u00a0\u00a0&#8221; &#8212; Instacart Corporate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instacart.com\/company\/updates\/expanding-with-walmart-canada-to-launch-a-new-virtual-convenience-store-powered-by-instacart-platform\/embed\/#?secret=YEpCnjtLHN#?secret=ORozyNN8yv\" data-secret=\"ORozyNN8yv\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.getthegloss.com\/news\/john-lewis-botox-injectables-tweakments-cavendish-clinic<\/p>\n<p>\nMcDonald\u2019s is toughening its franchise ownership standards<br \/>\n(restaurantbusinessonline.com)<\/p>\n<p>Kantar<br \/>\nRetail Blogs<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/21\/lowes-expands-into-the-metaverse-with-a-tool-to-help-visualize-projects.html<\/p>\n<p>Barry&#8217;s contact information:<br \/>barry.thomas@kantar.com<br \/>Barry&#8217;s<br \/>\nLinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>Rachel&#8217;s contact information:<br \/>rachel.dalton@kantar.com<br \/>Rachel&#8217;s<br \/>\nLinkedIn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 29, 2022 In Episode #12 of Kantar&#8217;s Retail Sound Bites, hosts Barry Thomas, senior retail thought leader, and Rachel Dalton, head of retail insights, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}