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
Whether it's carving out space near the deli department for communal tables or adding outdoor patios for seasonal dining, grocerants are creating comfortable and inviting areas for shoppers to sit down, relax and dig into breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Source: Grocerant Solutions
Some of the latest technologies being designed for consumer use sound more like science fiction than practical solutions. Will people really come to rely on self-filling refrigerators, or actually enjoy shopping in fully automated grocery stores without human interaction?
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
Oliver's Market, with four stores in Sonoma County, Calif., has found its niche. The hybrid store is completely focused on giving the community a choice in how it eats. The crossover concept allows the stores to offer 50 percent conventional products and 50 percent organic and natural products, and sales fall along those lines.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
NRF's 2017 Retail's Big Show stressed importance of rethinking branding, talent management and more to remain relevant.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
"Fresh" is the word in modern grocery retailing, and McCaffrey's Food Markets, with five stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, excels at the fresh departments.Two of its stores opened within the past year, a 50,000-square-foot store in Blue Bell, Pa., and a new, smaller, 13,000-square-foot Simply Fresh by McCaffrey's in Doylestown, Pa.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
In a world that's busier and offering more food-purchasing options than ever, establishing a distinctive identity for a grocery business is crucial. And Janssen's Market, in Greenville, Del., knows exactly what type of store it is.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
With a name like Harvest Market, a supermarket is firmly connecting itself to the land. And Quincy, Ill-based Niemann Foods' newest concept does just that.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
Shoppers can load onto their smartphones a wide variety of popular third-party grocery apps to help them save time and money. Meanwhile, grocers themselves also offer shoppers store apps, which should be the corner¬stone of their mobile strategies. The overall idea is to create loyalty to the store as well as helping shoppers save time and money.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
A number of traditional brick-and-mortar grocers seem to understand this reality and have been investing heavily in recent years to grab their share of the ecommerce pie sooner rather than later — and to continue to grow it even while competition heats up.
Source: ProgressiveGrocer
As the sportswear market continues to perform well, specialist brands are raising their game and competing with authentic, personalised and immersive in-store retail experiences.
Source: RetailFocus