Have CPG Store Brands Plateaued?
Three years ago at the annual Private Label Manufacturers Association show in Chicago, McKinsey & Co. released data projecting the possibility that 24 percent o...
Retailers Need Fresh Approach to Produce
Growers, shippers and retailers need to draw on the model of Silicon Valley and the hi-tech world to better understand consumers to create incremental demand fo...
Retail’s Big Catch: Seafood Thrives as Shoppers Go Healthy
The International Boston Seafood Show featured the latest and greatest developments in the fresh and frozen fish industry, with almost entirely good news for th...
NGA: Independents Can Gain Ground with Digital Marketing
There are certainly some community retailers that understand the potential impact of new processes and technology. This was proved at a workshop on digital shop...
NGA: Mobile Marketing Not Just for the Big Guys
The independent segment of the supermarket industry has never widely been considered to be at the vanguard of innovation in the latest tech trends. So, the fact...
Future Looks Bright for Store Brands
At the annual Private Label Manufacturers Association show in Chicago last week, McKinsey & Co. released data revealing that store brands continue to ride a wav...
PMA Acts to Grow Produce Consumption
At the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Annual Convention earlier this week, the association's president, Bryan Silbermann, said the industry is in a bit of ...
FMI 2010: Shopper Marketing Comes of Age in Grocery Channel
One of the clear themes at the Food Marketing Institute's Show last week in Las Vegas was that shopper marketing is a trend that's here to stay. While the preci...
Beyond Shrink Control
We know that loss prevention always becomes a bigger challenge for retailers when the jobless rate grows or stagnates at high levels. What attendees at a worksh...
Independent Grocers Look to Gain Ground
The National Grocers Association held its annual convention and trade show in Las Vegas last week and attracted 20 percent more attendees than 2009, providing ...
Apple Hits the NRF Show Floor, Sort of
Apple, the maker of the iPhone and the Macintosh, wasn't an exhibitor at the National Retail Federation's 99th Annual Convention in New York this week, but you ...
Wegmans Calls Private Label Food Safety a Critical Issue
BrainTrust panelist Ron Margulis has long thought the only thing that could derail the store brand locomotive is a major recall of a retailer-marketed product. ...
FMI Future Connect: Leaders Outline ‘Path to the Executive Suite’
The Food Marketing Institute's first ever Future Connect Conference was held in Dallas this week and one of the highlights was a group of four c-level executive...
Groups Move to Put More Produce on Restaurant Plates
The Produce Marketing Association, National Restaurant Association and International Foodservice Distributors Association joined forces earlier this year to ide...
Wal-Mart’s Scott Delivers Swansong Speech at NRF
Outgoing Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott gave his final public speech at the NRF's Annual Conference Monday, starting out on a depressing note and only getting marginall...
Turning Points 2008: Small Format Stores
Only a few years ago, any food store less than 40,000 square feet was considered a mom & pop grocery, not a real supermarket. During the last 18 months, the ind...
Independents Rule!
The National Grocers Association held their annual convention and trade show in Las Vegas last week and attracted five percent more attendees than last year. Th...
BrainTrust Query: Is service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology the wave of the future?
Enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA), which enables companies to rapidly respond to changing business requirements and competitive market dynamics, wh...
FMI 2004: The Good, The Bad and The Low Carb
Last week's FMI convention was a reminder of many things right about trade shows -- there was widespread networking, hundreds of new products and services, and ...
CEO Sleeps Better With Security Measures
Last week's Food Safety Summit in Washington, DC coincided with the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and many of the questions asked about the safety ...