What not to miss at Groceryshop – 28 Sep – 01 Oct 2025

With just over six weeks to go until Groceryshop 2025, we round-up some of the key goings on set to take place in Sin City when the global event for grocery retailers and CPG brands opens its doors at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from 28 Sept – 01 Oct 2025.

Discover what’s cooking in Groceryshop’s Test Kitchen

New for 2025, Groceryshop’s Test Kitchen offers immersive AI-focused sessions across two tracks, led by top grocery retail execs and analysts. With interactive discussions across topics from retail media to preparing for agentic commerce and hyper-personalisation, it will showcase practical examples of how cutting-edge tech is driving business outcomes.

Key Test Kitchen sessions include:

Day 1, 2.35pm – 3.15pm – Test Kitchen A – Advanced data and measurement capabilities for retail media – with Albertsons Media Collective‘s VP, Liz Roche, and Manish Sharma, Co-Founder & CMO of Think Blue
Day 1, 1.45pm – 2.25pm – Test Kitchen B – Preparing your data and tech stack for agentic aI – with Brian Bell, VP, Strategy & Planning, Church & Dwight Co. and Jason Cottrell, CEO & Founder of Orium

Standout insight over on the main stage

Over on the main conference programme, Groceryshop 2025 will bring 150+ global leaders and changemakers to the stage, sharing insights on how to stay ahead and drive real impact in grocery and CPG.

Key themes running across the 2025 agenda include: how to deliver efficient, AI-Powered grocery operations; understanding, captivating and retaining shoppers; the next frontier for retail media; and building unified and future-ready organisations. Sessions you’ll want to catch include:

Day 1, 2.35 – 3.15pm – Track 1 – Balancing wide-ranging consumer behaviours and shopping habits – keynote with Sonya Gafsi Oblisk, Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer at Whole Foods
Day 2, 9am – 9.40am – Track 3 – Stores of the future: Maximising efficiency and engagement – with Schnucks, Good Food Holdings and Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures at IGD
Day 3, 9am – 9.40am – Track 1 – New approaches to brand building and storytelling – panel including Benoit Vatere, Chief Media Officer at Liquid Death, Treasury Wine Estates‘ President Sarah Bakx, and January Digital‘s Sarah Engel
Day 4, 10.20am – 11am – Track 1 – Channels blending engagement and commerce – with Amanda Parker, Head of Food at TikTok Shop, DoorDash VP Toby Espinosa, Ekta Chopra, CDO at e.l.f. Beauty and Publicis‘ Jason Goldberg

Outside of the tracks, there will also be keynote sessions featuring: Tim Steiner, CEO of Ocado; Jack Sinclair, CEO of Sprouts Farmers Market; Joel Rampoldt, CEO of Lidl US; and Susan Anderson, Global Head of Delivery at Uber.

Meet-ups and networking opps

As well as its Meetup programme, which offers retailers pre-booked targeted one-to-one meetings with technology providers and innovators, on Day 2, Groceryshop is hosting its Links & Drinks networking event. This offers retailers and brands relaxed networking over mini-golf at Swingers, Mandalay Bay, from 5.30pm.

Meanwhile, Day 3 sees Groceryshop’s main networking event, Groceryfest Beach Party, take place from 8pm at the Mandalay Bay Beach, featuring live music, drinks and networking.

There will also be a range of satellite events, including RETHINK Retail and The CPG Guys’ Groceryshop Kick-off Party on Day 1 from 6pm at Eyecandy (Mandalay Bay) and Bazaarvoice’s Happy Hour at Kumi (Mandalay Bay) on Day 3 from 5.30pm.