There’s an old phrase coined by the British comedy group Monty Python that happens to perfectly describe what the best independent retailers are all about:
“And now for something completely different.”
Differentiation is everything to indep...
We’ve all had 15 years to get used to the 21st century, but I’m not sure that’s happened yet. The pace of change has quickened each year, impacting everything from consumer behavior to company strategies and making business decisions more difficu...
We all have ideas on what’s most important to participants in the food retail industry. That said, the Internet era allows us to learn more precisely what people are interested in. At SN, for instance, we know how much reader traffic different co...
While perusing the National Restaurant Association’s What Hot 2015 Culinary Forecast, an annual survey of close to 1,300 professional chefs, I was surprised to see a prediction that had nothing to do with what’s on the menu. An analysis of long-t...
Just as health systems are improving patient outcomes by basing in-store clinics in food stores and partnering with retail dietitians and pharmacists, healthcare providers are paying close attention to social determinants of health such as food i...
It's that time once again where we pull back the curtain and reveal our annual food and shopping predictions based on our research conducted with our partner ConAgra Foods and findings from the SupermarketGuru.com Consumer Panel.
1. Grazing gold...
It’s not fair, but in some circles Millennials have become known as the generation that underperformed.
This group, which ranges in age approximately from late teens to mid-30s, was hit especially hard by the Great Recession and its aftermath. H...
If all your market knowledge came from the general media, you’d already have concluded supermarkets are goners. There’s a growing drumbeat of stories about supermarket decline.
“The Grocery Store May Be on Its Death Bed,” blared one headline fro...
A French Bulldog as a cowboy. A dachshund as a bat. A Boxer as a butterly.
These are some of the costumes pet owners submitted for Albertsons’ Purina-sponsored “Hairy N Scary” Halloween photo contest.
Even those who didn’t have a costume for th...
