Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team was in Las Vegas attending and participating in the Groceryshop 2019 conference, September 15-18. In this report, we share our insights from the conference.

• Coresight Research CEO and Founder Deborah Weinswig kicked off the event by emceeing the Groceryshop Emerging Technology Spotlight on September 15.
• Weinswig also introduced Coresight Research’s SCORE framework for artificial intelligence (AI) in grocery retail.
• Companies need to connect demographics, life stage, lifestyle, social media and other lifestyle indicators to truly understand customers and predict behavior using AI.
• Many at Groceryshop expressed the view that it is better to risk taking action based on imperfect data, instead of waiting for the perfect data set that may never come.