SMALL STORES

 

10:00am – 10:45am

2020 Drivers Accelerating Small Store Rollout

Maggie Gilliam

Senior Analyst

RetailNet Group

• Small store revolution is well underway and RNG is tracking the most important developments in this industry, especially among the QSR, convenience, drug, express and discount segments. 

• Highlight the significant STEIP drivers of change redefining proximity retailing

 

10:45am – 11:45am

Small Stores: Setting the Context

Hannah Donoghue

Senior Analyst

RetailNet Group

• RNG’s mid and long term industry forecast for the small store environment

  • Winning channels, segments & retailers

 

11:45am - 12:00pm

Break

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

Small Store Economics

Tim O'Connor

Vice President

RetailNet Group

• Unique challenges of small store economics

• Key profitability questions retailers and brands will have to consider in this small store environment, in particular as big boxes downsize to smaller formats.

 

12:45pm – 1:15pm

Food Migration: Pantry to Kitchen

Doug Koontz

Analyst

RetailNet Group

• Evolution of food consumption: the shift from scratch to ready-to-eat meal solutions

• What you need to know at each stage

 

1:15pm - 2:15pm

Lunch

 

2:15pm  –  3:00pm 

Evolution of Convenience Superstores

Hannah Donoghue

• Future of convenience as a retailing strategy is changing drastically

• Winning convenience store players innovate to compete with an expanding small box competitive set

 

3:00pm – 3:45pm

QSR: Redefining the Future of Food

Doug Koontz

• Increase in channel blurring and a continued shift in consumer preferences around food to go leading to QSR playing an even larger role in the small box food competitive set

• Highlight RNG’s QSR forecast and strategies of key players

 

3:45pm – 4:30pm

Future of the Drug Channel

Hannah Donoghue

• Channel blurring: how will the future drug store compete?

  • Role of pharmacy

  • Role of services – higher engagement model

  • Expanding food assortment – to go, fresh

  • Digital integration 

 

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Break

 

4:45pm – 5:30pm

RNG Calls Discounter Peak 2020

Doug Koontz

• While discounters have experienced significant growth over the past 5 years with the recession, profitability will be increasingly challenging. 

  • How long is the discounter runway?

  • What are the key strategies discounters are employing?

  • What is different about doing business with discounters? 

 

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Store & Network Renewal: 

Big Boxes Downsizing

Hannah Donoghue

• The ‘versioning’ trend in big box retail to small box / express formats

• Key strategies of big box players downsizing

• Implications of the downsizing and multi-format portfolios to both retailers and vendors