There’s no denying that retailers are getting more confident in the online grocery space.
“Grocers are increasingly addressing the online format like they have a right to compete,” according to Jacqueline Martinez...
If someone told you that young people in their 20s and early 30s prefer to spend less time on digital devices and platforms, would you believe it?
You’d probably question the sanity of the person offering that inf...
Fresh foods is one of the brightest stories in food retailing today, and somehow it continues to get better. In SN’s just-published annual Fresh Foods Survey, some 75% of retailers said sales have increased in the pa...
I’ve seen two main reactions when the subject of Millennials comes up among retailers and manufacturers, as it often does these days.
One reaction is denial. This shows itself in snarky comments about the industry...
Long before gluten-free, paleo or non-GMO grabbed headlines, what was the biggest natural merchandising topic among food retailers?
It was this question: Should you integrate or segregate natural and organic produ...
We all get attached to things. In my case it was a smartphone calendar app that is far better than my phone's native calendar. That's why I was upset when it stopped working correctly late last year. I felt the need ...
Last month SN presented its inaugural list of 25 “Disruptors” — people transforming food retailing in an era of unprecedented change.
So how do we classify everyone else in the industry who didn’t make the list?
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Disruption is all about throwing things into confusion and disorder. For better or worse, that’s a familiar scenario to many in the food industry right now.
According to a recent report by KPMG’s Consumer Markets ...
Restaurants are the enemy of retail.
That’s been the understanding ever since I began covering the food retail space a long time ago.
The discussion was always about how food retailers need to steal share from ...
The worst thing about conventional wisdom is it’s often mistaken for absolute truth. Case in point is the assumption that supermarkets are stuck in the middle — between value and upscale retailers — and dying as a re...