WASHINGTON -- At a time when publicly traded supermarkets and consumer packaged goods companies live from one financial quarter to the next, Grocery Manufacturers Association here will challenge food industry...
There is no escaping the fact that pharmacy is drug stores' core business, representing nearly 70% of total sales. However, the draw of low-margin pharmacy has great potential to impact the higher-margin front end...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Food For All is building its portfolio of fund-raising projects with a program that might at first appear to be the antithesis of feeding the hungry: preventing childhood obesity.The food industry...
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets here is proving that shorter is better when it comes to their Food For All drive.A partner with the Falls Church, Va.-based Food For All organization since 1997, Publix last year...
Driving shoppers into supermarkets with national product brands has historically overshadowed food retailers' efforts to drive shoppers into their stores through their own branding efforts, brand marketers said...
If you ask consumers to draw a picture of a conventional grocery store they shop, what would you get? Most likely it would be a blank box empty of symbols, icons, color or emotion, said brand marketers and consultants...
In today's retail environment of savvy branding, tag lines are just one way to communicate the most important attribute any retailer wants to convey to consumers.So how do supermarkets fare in utilizing tag lines to...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- While Safeway here is at the start of a costly rebranding effort, company executives are quick to point to second-quarter results as validation that its strategy is working.Same-store sales at...
WESTPORT, CONN. -- Looking at Information Resources Inc. figures for nonfood categories prompts one to ask, "Where is the growth?" Nonfood sales volume has fallen across food, drug and mass 4.9%, from $51.9 billion in...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That was one thought that crossed my mind as I read that Wild Oats added conventional brands to a grocery set a few weeks ago (see the report on Wild Oats' recent conference call, Page...