MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P here opened its first domestic store last week under the Food Basics banner, a limited-assortment format that has been successful for the company in Canada.The initial test of the price-impact...
Financial performance during the first half of the year became a delicate balancing act for the Top 10 publicly traded supermarket companies.The challenge was to grow the top line while keeping margins and earnings...
TORONTO -- Food FleetXchange -- a free, consolidated, online transportation buying service for members of Food Distributors International, Falls Church, Va., and the National Grocers Association, Arlington, Va. -...
TORONTO -- The food industry may be hard pressed to keep up with the rapid pace of consumer and social trends that will eventually transform food retailing today, said Kevin Sneader, principal, McKinsey & Co., Florham...
TROY, Mich. -- Chuck Conaway, chairman and chief executive office of Kmart Corp., said he is "big-time bullish" on grocery, drug and other high-frequency items during the company's second quarter conference call here...
When it comes to exploiting Web sites to build brand recognition, drive shoppers into stores and reward loyalty, supermarkets have barely begun to scratch the surface.According to the Washington-based Food Marketing...
It's a simple formula, relatively speaking. If you lower prices to nearly cost or below, they will come, and you will win market share.This formula is predicated on mass merchandising -- low markup, high volume. It's...
Without access to ready capital, most retailers are dead in today's turbulent waters of food retailing.Unfortunately, over the last decade, the sea has been littered with flotsam resulting from bankruptcies...
CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark here has empowered itself onto the comeback trail.Nine months after emerging from bankruptcy, Pathmark reported two consecutive quarters of turnaround results, indicating, according to...
Food as fashion. The correlation may seem somewhat of a stretch, especially to food retailers focused on logistics.The food-fashion connection was made for me on a run for a Starbucks fix. Note the java retailer...