This week, SN's Fresh Market section includes two unrelated stories involving tough new food safety requirements for processors of meat and poultry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week announced that it will be lowering the acceptable...

Did last week's big Las Vegas gathering — the FMI 2010 event — put the industry in a gambling mood...

I am very pleased and honored to now be sharing my thoughts and insights on our food and supermarket industry along with the learnings from our SupermarketGuru.com consumer panel on these pages of Supermarket News...

Our recent audience research found there's one thing retailers can't get enough of...

The early drama of retailer Fresh & Easy was a strange two-act performance. Act One began more than a year before the small-format's November 2007 launch in the Western U.S. At that time worried retailers were closely tracking every report about...

I have a dinosaur of a computer taking up much of the limited closet space in my apartment. Although it's only about five years old, it doesn't have a flat screen so none of the various charities I tried pawning it off on are willing to take it...

The restaurant industry has a new item on its menu: recovery...

Earth Day 2010 has come and gone, and most certainly, supermarkets of all sizes found some way to demonstrate their commitment to the environment...

During the recent recession, with revenue gains hard to come by, retailers have increasingly turned to cost-cutting maneuvers, and few areas offer more such opportunities than information technology...

Here's the most frequent question I get when traveling around the industry: “Is the consumer's shift to value shopping a permanent trend?” ...