Today’s food shopper increasingly sees sustainability as a mark of good corporate citizenship in choosing a retailer, and supermarkets are responding accordingly. It makes economic sense, too.
Source: Progressive Grocer
Sales of frozen foods have seen better days. Overall retail sales in this $50 billion category have been tepid at best over the past three years, posting an increase of just 0.9 percent in 2015 after two years of declines, according to Nielsen data reported in Progressive Grocers 69th Annual Consumer Expenditures Study last July.
Source: Progressive Grocer
Big Data means big business for grocery chains. Kroger leverages data to drive basket size, shopping visits and retention over time via highly targeted promotions.
Source: Progressive Grocer
Many have claimed center store to be "dead" or "dying." But grocers need not fret: such news appears to be, for the most part, a lot of doom and gloom.
Source: Progressive Grocer
The changing retail landscape and shifting customer demographics within the food industry provide both challenges and opportunities for the in-store dairy, deli, and bakery industries.
Source: inStore
Source: InStore
A former nonfoods buyer for the old Randall's Supermarket chain, based out of Houston, once said the company's strategy for growth was pretty straightforward back in the 1980s and 90s.
Source: Grocery Headquarters
February 25, 2015 was Ann Arbor's lucky day. That is the date the doors officially flung open at Lucky's market changing the way residents of the Michigan college town shop for groceries.
Source: Grocery Headquarters
At FMI Connect, retailers can get up close and personal with the industry's leading suppliers.
Source: Grocery Headquarters
Finding generations of shoppers in a G&G Supermarket in itself isn't unusual. What is remarkable is that you're likely to find third generation members of the Gong family taking care of them. And a fourth generation might be waiting in the wings.
Source: Grocer California
The answer — food trucks. Or, at least the latest iteration of them that are becoming increasingly popular in urban and suburban locales for their upscale and modern take on a wide variety of ethnic cuisines and low prices, enabling them to bridge the gap between retail and restaurants.
Source: Grocer California
The 70-year-old retailer, which for decades had its flagship across the street from the KGB's headquarters, reinvented itself in the early 2000s to focus on the emerging middle class.Today, it offers everything from strained carrots to bicycles to frilly party dresses in stores that often feature entertainment areas where kids play with Lego and Nerf balls.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Buzzed about since the postwar mid-1940s, baby boomers have finally taken a back seat—or at least handed over control of the wheel—to millennials.
Source: Grocertant Solutions