Food for Thought

Datasembly is uniquely positioned to provide up-to-date insights related to the true price changes in Thanksgiving basket items, as we collect over 12 billion prices from more than 150,000 stores representing 230 retailers every week. This enables Datasembly to provide actual pricing, rather than forecasts or estimates, to truly gauge what is occurring in stores […]

Will this year’s Halloween haul be as ghoulish as last year’s? Using Datasembly’s enhanced Grocery Price Index, we reviewed the Candy & Gum category across all of Grocery to determine what we might expect to see this year. Our Grocery Price Index is based on data collected from over 150,000 stores that represent 200+ retail […]

Since November 2021, The Grocery Price Index™ has been providing the broadest set of standard metrics for tracking and understanding pricing trends in the grocery industry. Powered by Datasembly's comprehensive, hyper-local product data collection, GPI is able to capture weekly changes in grocery pricing from over 200 retail banners and 150,000 stores across the United States. And it's […]

Datasembly is creating new tools and advancing existing technologies to help bring even more clarity and insight to the competitive retail marketplace. We’re also excited to share that we recently secured a $16 million series B round of funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners. This new investment allows us to advance our solution and bring new tools […]

Datasembly recently got the opportunity to sit down with CPG industry expert Steve Langois of Post Consumer Brands to discuss how he uses transparent market data to battle uncertain market conditions. Prompt: “With all of the unprecedented market conditions and inflation we are seeing today, CPGs are in need of timely and actionable data to […]

While we have only just begun 2023, Datasembly is already hard at work shaping new tools and advancing existing technologies to help bring even more clarity and insight to the competitive retail marketplace. And the investments we have planned in 2023 are only possible due to the milestones we achieved in 2022 - one of […]

Are Prices Still Spiking for Consumers? The hype around Superbowl 2023 is undoubtedly high - will Super Bowl party prices be as well? According to Datasembly the Nationwide average for 15 items commonly found at Super Bowl parties is up 13.8%. Datasembly provides actual grocery prices and grocery price inflation, collecting and harmonizing more than […]

Datasembly’s Grocery Price Index is the only source of actual grocery price inflation because we have built an engine that collects and harmonizes more than 12 BILLION data points from today’s largest retail data sources, every week.  Other Indices use weighted values of a select basket of goods and household services, we use data we […]

Datasembly is uniquely positioned to provide insight to the actual prices of popular Thanksgiving products because we collect the price, promotion and assortment of every product, in every store, nearly every day. This means we know what customers are actually seeing in the brick and mortar stores as well as online.  These are actual prices, […]

Consumers are cautiously approaching the candy aisle this year wondering how much it’s going to cost to keep trick-or-treaters happy. Well, using Datasembly’s real-time, hyper-local and shareable data we took a look at the top 10 Halloween brands and bags of assorted candies to determine the YOY list price change from 2021 to 2022. Datasembly […]

You may be noticing a bit more of a thoughtful pause coming from shoppers in the grocery and retail aisles these days. That very pause is causing today’s CPG and Retailer’s hearts to skip a beat.   This is the impact of the 40-year high inflation. The dramatic price increases are forcing consumers to recast their […]

Parents Prepare to Pay More This Year As students across America gear up for this new school year, parents are wondering how much more expensive will BACK TO SCHOOL shopping be this year for lunch box items and school supplies? Using Datasembly’s real-time, hyperlocal data, we can tell you.  Let’s tackle lunch box essentials first. […]