How Oil Prices Influence the Grocery Business
Canadian retailers have been raising their prices on groceries since early 2019. Will you adapt your pricing strategies based on macroeconomic trends before others do?
Fusion Insights
A collection of our latest thoughts on data analytics and strategy. These articles highlight the analytical thinking, data-driven strategy and problem solving that Fusion has to offer.
Build a Tower of Babel
How a new structure is required to improve strategic planning.
Is Your Real Estate Keeping Up With The Changing Landscape?
Moving from store-centric to consumer-centric analytics.
Stop Cleaning The Potatoes
Retailers are already drowning in data, most of it noisy, inaccurate, blind to opportunity, and therefore wrong.
The Faster He Mows The Faster It Grows
Moving from more noise to finding the opportunity.
What Is The Purpose Of Tracking
'Scanning for insight' is the most common reason we hear from retailers for using a tracking dashboard.
Everyone Wants To Know ROI...
Everyone wants to know the 'ROI', but inevitably, once they get this number ...
Where is your longbow?
Moving from bottom-up silos to top-down thinking.
The Benefit of Converting Your Business To A Common Denominator
A key step to better analytics is moving more of your reports/metrics to a common language so different opportunities are cross-comparable.
How Indexes Can Be Deceiving
One of the most common methods for making comparisons in business is to use division to create ratios.
Don't Hire An Accountant To Do Analytics
Why being accurate requires you to not be precise.
Is Your Customer Satisfaction Report Lying To You?
Most retailers leverage their POS receipts to have customers fill out satisfaction surveys.
Should You Move To EDLP?
Adding facts and nuance to your pricing strategy.
TV Usage Changing Rapidly in Canada
Television viewership is not yet dying in Canada.
Is Social Media Working For Retailers In Canada?
Social media is popular among Canadians.