Become a Member
We are a flexible membership model, where you only invest in your priorities.
Select the services of interest and bundle them under one of our membership levels.
Three levels of loyalty-based membership tiers to suit your needs
Services for Loyalty Members
Retail Cities' Workshops
We run a series of workshops throughout the year, providing a safe and collaborative learning space. Our workshops will equip you with the relevant insights and tools to gain a deep understanding of the retail landscape, growth channels, key trends, and disruptive innovations.
These workshops bring 3 perspectives together:
- The retail intelligence expertise, with presentations from the Retail Cities’ senior experts in retail insights.
- The CPG view, with presentations from ex-CPG senior executives, who currently advise CPG clients.
- The retailer view, with presentations from ex-retailer executives, who currently advise CPG/Retailer clients and set up retail operations globally.
Our workshop calendar consists of a combination of in-person and virtual workshops (delivered over Zoom) for the US audience, and a series of virtual workshops for our Europe & rest of world audiences.
Some of our previously delivered workshops include:
- Channel & Key Accounts Workshops: including hot channels such as Value Retail, European Discounters, Cash & Carry, and key retailers such as the European Buying Groups.
- Double Jointed Business Planning: helping you understand the ”New JBP” with key customers, as they embrace Retail Media, Omnichannel, and Loyalty in new ways.
- Retail Media: focused on the fast-evolving world of retail media as a core function from both a retailer’s perspective and from a supplier’s perspective.
Expert Presentations
The Retail Cities network of experts are seasoned professionals, highly renowned in the retail industry, who will provide you with an expert, objective, and external perspective on the retail subjects you need assistance with, so that you and your teams are equipped with the relevant insights and accurate recommendations that will enhance your relationship with your retail customers and grow your business.
Typical engagements involve presenting at:
- Your company sales, marketing, or strategy conference
- Strategy meeting with senior management
- Advising at C-suite level
We can deliver expert presentations either in-person or virtually.
Expert Videos on Demand
Global retail will expand by approximately USD 10 Trillion every five years.
For retailers, brands and their partners the key questions are:
- What’s driving and shaping that growth?
- Where will it be? Which countries, retailers, channels are key to the Next $10 Trillion?
- How should we capture this growth?
In our video on demand product, our experts tackle the hot topics aimed at helping you understand the “What”, “Where” and “How” behind each five year wave of retail growth.
Video topics include:
What's Shaping?
Inflation
Retail and healthcare
2024 Predictions
Sustainability At Retail
GMROI-centric retail strategies
Where?
Urban Retail
Channel Growth Predictions
TwinCities - Retail Cities' global city segmentation / mapping tool
Retail pairs - pairing two retailers from different geographies to highlight best practices
How?
Rewiring the Joint business plan
Promotional rescue - the resurgence of promotions at retail
The new world of retail media
Everything's FINE - Frictionless, Immediate, Navigable and Engaging Commerce
Every expert video is available to view on-demand replay. Many videos are quick - just five minutes. Others go into detail and can go for 20, 45, or 60 minutes. In addition, member companies have access to the personalized sessions, developed by our experts, which focus on their specific questions and categories.
Store Audits
Our store audit service gives you an assessment of the instore execution of your brands/categories for any given retailer, benchmarking against your competitors as well as other categories in the store.
Store audits will help you:
- Understand what the store execution really looks like for your brand(s)/category and verify if this is aligned to the agreed plans with your retail customers.
- Uncover consistencies (or lack of) in store execution across various cities/regions.
- Track prices of your products/categories through time, and benchmark against your competitors and/or different categories.
- Identify best practices within your category and others in the store.
Store audits are designed to address your specific needs/objectives, so we will customize the scope according to your specifications.
We can conduct store audits in most countries in the world, for any channel of your choice, including grocery stores, convenience, value discounters, dollar stores, specialist (such as pet, toys, and more), DIY, electronics, and more. We also cover traditional trade (such as mom & pops and small family-owned stores), which represents a large portion of retail in developing markets.
Expert on Demand
Our Expert on Demand service provides you with assistance on any retail question where expert advice/perspective is needed from an industry veteran (e.g., in preparation to an important internal meeting or a JBP meeting with a retailer).
Raise your question and the Retail Cities team will conduct the research, generate the insights, and walk you through the findings and recommendations.
Requests are typically delivered in 5 business days and can be fast-tracked if needed or a fee.
Examples of previous ‘Expert on Demand’ sessions include:
- A detailed review of an innovative expansion of the fresh category at Lidl
- Analysis of how Aldi & Lidl recycle free standing promotional displays
- A look at the financial health of Walmart’s top 5 broker companies
- Analysis of the organic poultry category at specialty supermarkets
A great benefit of our Expert on Demand service, is that it gives you the opportunity to ask our experts those retail related questions that you would not be able to get answers easily through industry reports and publications.
Retail Excellence Insights Packs
The Retail Excellence Member Insights Packs are monthly updates on key developments and trends in retail, and implications for brand suppliers.
These packs condense the most relevant insights our experts generate across multiple projects and ongoing research, insights that everyone involved with retail should be aware of.
We continuously receive excellent feedback on these packs, especially from our clients in senior management/leadership roles.
Each edition includes macro trends relevant across various key retailers, channels, and geographies.
We produce a European and a North American version.
Retail Insights Reports
The Retail Cities team tracks the updates and new developments in retail on an ongoing basis and produces Insights Reports upon client request.
As a member, you can choose reports from our existing library (which is continuously updated/refreshed) or submit a request for a report to be developed on a specific topic of your interest.
Typically, we produce reports on retail channels, retail customers, market analysis, and retail trends and predictions.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO DISCUSS YOUR OPTIONS,
CONTACT US INFO@RETAILCITIES.COM
