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When SN began its annual Power 50 rankings in 2003, three of the four top spots were devoted to Wal-Mart executives. The current list, which appears in this week’s theme issue (see Page 24), has only one Wal-Mart representative: president and CEO...
A couple of months ago I wrote a column for this space entitled: “Reality Check: Supermarkets Are Not Restaurants.” The point was that supermarkets need to run their food-service businesses differently than restaurants, because the two types of...
The food industry is obsessed with figuring out consumers. Some have taken that mission to the extreme by saying retail channels don’t matter anymore because the consumer doesn’t recognize channels...