article thumbnail

MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. More than 8 million POS software installations at major retailers. In its new report, Placer.ai

2020 528
article thumbnail

How Restaurants, Retail and Mixed-Use Environments Are Capitalizing on a Surging F&B Market

Modern Restaurant Management

While the scale of Easton may be difficult to replicate, a heavy emphasis on F&B and integrated dining concepts makes it an ideal prism through which to view how restaurants are approaching lease renewals in retail and lifestyle centers. How strong is the appeal of a strong mix of restaurants and retail?

Retail 275
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Inside the Starbucks Collectors Cup Market, Where a Single Tumbler Can Sell for Nearly $2K

EATER

The drinkware retails between $20 and $30, and is almost always sold out on the Starbucks website. Spaulding’s first beloved cup retails for $24.95 The resale market really ramped up during the pandemic, as cup collectors found themselves stuck at home and many actual retail locations were closed.

Marketing 337
article thumbnail

MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

More than 27 percent of Americans have not used cash to pay for food, beverages, merchandise, or services since Covid-19, and 77 percent will prefer contactless payments even after the pandemic ends. In fact, 44 percent Americans said convenience was the most important factor for ordering and paying for food and merchandise with their phone.

2020 402
article thumbnail

How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

EATER

With more than 4,600 stores across the United States, Walmart is the definition of a retail behemoth. Known for its “Every Day Low Prices,” the chain is the country’s dominant grocery retailer. Going into a retailer like Walmart isn’t a decision any company can make lightly. It was just way too much for one person to deal with.”

Retail 312
article thumbnail

MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic.

2020 491
article thumbnail

The Corner Store, Curated

EATER

boiler seem practically sculptural” — positioned itself less like a food market and more like a high-end retailer, one available to the masses, but subsidized by the rich. Every retailer does things a little differently — Walmart and Whole Foods don’t charge slotting fees , but they levy other costs related to distribution and shelf space.

Retail 261