Last month we surveyed our SupermarketGuru.com Consumer Panel about retailers using hidden cameras to track their behaviors and eye movements as they decided which products to select from store shelves.
I was ...
I would suggest it is time to rethink the way we look at food retailing. We are experiencing a huge paradigm shift — everything from the way we attract shoppers, to the foods they purchase (and why) to where they ...
I have been attending the Food Marketing Institute Convention since I was a teenager. Walking the exhibit floor with my dad was easily one of the most exciting food events of the year. Having the opportunity to se...
Huston Smith, one of the world’s foremost scholars and authors on religions throughout the world, simply explains the three basic inescapable human problems. He says that everywhere humans have lived on this plane...
Last week, at the National Grocers Association Annual Convention, I presented the topline findings from our annual 2012 NGA SupermarketGuru Consumer Panel Survey. As part of the session, we invited four powerhouse...
Most shoppers and supermarket retailers in the New York metro area had never heard of the Teaneck Kosher Supermarket in Teaneck, N.J., until that rare October storm that dumped heavy snows, rains and wind from Vir...
No one is arguing that the way we communicate with shoppers is changing at lightning speed. TV, radio and print have been replaced by social and mobile … which is now giving way to LoSoPhoMo. Many supermarket and ...
2011 brought us higher food prices at unprecedented levels, crops and livestock destroyed by global weather catastrophes, nations at war over the lack of food supplies, and more food recalls from unique points of...