It's one thing to know the financial challenges facing food retailers. It's another thing to have the full negative impact revealed in the form of an industrywide performance scorecard...
My year as a business/technology journalist officially kicks off at the National Retail Federation's Annual Convention & Expo, held each January at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a short distance from SN's Manhattan offices...
You probably read your grocery industry news online this morning, and now you're prepared for anything the day brings. Tomorrow morning you'll check again...
Giant Eagle isn't the first conventional supermarket to target the discount sector for growth, but its new value format takes a unique approach to this effort while helping to diversify the operator (read a related story by associate editor Jon...
Most businesses would rather forget that 2008 and 2009 ever happened. But it's now a new year and a new decade, and many economists are predicting that the United States will soon begin to emerge from two years of economic doldrums marked by...
The need for a standard set of nutrition criteria resurfaced in Washington last week, where the Federal Trade Commission hosted a forum on the effectiveness of self-regulation of food and beverage advertising directed to kids...
The evidence points to a gradually improving economic trend, but no one knows its depth or staying power. However, retailers need to position themselves now for better times while not abandoning value and cost-cutting strategies...