Store brands have traditionally proliferated when inflation or a recession spurs consumers to spend more conservatively. But as store brands become more premium and fill specific customer needs, price is no longer the only driving factor.

Private label brands have taken on increasing importance in retailers’ arsenals on the heels of positive consumer sentiment. This report looks at how retailers can use store brands to bolster their product assortment and thus increase their margins.

Grocery items are products that people regularly buy from a grocery store, including food and beverages, pet food, household cleaning products, personal care products, and other household consumables. This excludes restaurant sales.

Uber can deliver flowers and Estée Lauder cosmetics, while DoorDash's DashMart sells its own stock of convenience store items, including food and beverage products, pet food, and over-the-counter medicine. By offering a suite of different products through a single platform, these companies are becoming retail super apps on their own accord. Latin America.

Pet supplies retailer Petco, for example, has prioritized health and wellness as it opened its 200th full-service vet hospital during the quarter and purchased the remaining stake in Thrive Pet Healthcare in March. Then there are luxury retailers (Burberry, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and Canada Goose), which have a customer base that is less affected by inflation.

Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drug stores, retail stores, cosmetics stores and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Travel: Includes airlines, car rental, hotels and resorts, cruises, destination marketing organizations; includes both leisure and business travel.

If you wanted a pair of jeans or pet supplies, there'd be a host of sites to order from, but the tradeoff for all that selection is that you'd have to wait. Now, if you want a Bed Bath & Beyond product, you don’t need it sent from a distribution center in northern Florida.

The department store chain sells its own beauty box. In 2019, it was reported that Macy’s was also exploring a subscription apparel offering, but that has yet to materialize. Chewy. The massive ecommerce pet food retailer relies heavily on subscription orders.

Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drugstores, retail stores, cosmetics stores, and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise.

To counteract slowing growth, a number of D2C retailers, including Allbirds, pet supplies seller Bark, and streetwear brand Planet Brooklyn Academy are turning to wholesale as they seek alternative ways to build brand awareness and expand their reach.