Food for Thought

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. […]

At Datasembly, transparency is everything – it’s even in our vision: Datasembly believes in creating total transparency for every product being sold everywhere. Today, we’re excited to share a new resource that takes transparency one step further: We’re sharing grocery data with EVERYONE.  Our Grocery Price Index™ provides the broadest set of standard metrics for tracking and understanding pricing […]

And we’re back! Glad you’re here! In recent posts, we’ve shared our focus on marrying better data with transparency. Today, we’re highlighting the brilliant minds behind this game-changing combination that’s helping Retailers and CPGs make smarter, faster decisions. Our founders As classmates at Cornell University, Ben Reich and Dan Gallagher had no way to know […]

What’s better than real-time, hyper-local, comprehensive pricing intelligence? A customized platform that provides all that stellar data in a format that meets each customer’s individual needs and preferences. Customization is the name of the game here at Datasembly – let’s dive in.   Platform possibilities Our platform translates massive amounts of product information into a customized pricing […]

Here at Datasembly, we’ve seen how data makes all the difference when it comes to smarter, faster business decisions for CPGs and Retailers. But so often, companies are using old, averaged, or incomplete data to make those critical decisions, risking millions. The real-time data our platform collects offers our clients the fresh, right-off-the-shelf intelligence they need to win. Real-time, real […]

Welcome back! In our last post, we highlighted how better data means better decisions for CPGs and Retailers alike. When we talk about “better data,” we mean data that’s real-time, hyper-local, and complete; but businesses need even more than that. They need the ability to use and share data with unprecedented transparency. That’s what we’ll be diving into […]

Welcome to the Datasembly blog! We’re taking our expertise in product data collection technology and building a go-to resource - a library of helpful content created to educate and empower CPGs and Retailers alike. Today, we’ll be kicking things off by explaining how “yesterday’s data,” the product data that companies have used for decades, isn’t […]