This month Giant Eagle here completed the rollout of a store-specific endcap optimization system to all of the 54 independent supermarkets that carry its banner.
LAS VEGAS In the latest example of its ongoing efforts to collaborate with suppliers, Wegmans Food Markets is consulting with Frito-Lay and other CPG companies on market research into new markets where the chain plans...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market here plans to retrofit medium temperature cases in its 159 stores with LED lighting from Nualight, Charlotte, which announced the project last week.
LAS VEGAS With the economy and their businesses improving, attendees at the Food Marketing Institute's now-every-other-year trade show last week were generally upbeat about the proceedings, each finding something of...
Which is faster an express line with multiple shoppers or a regular line with one shopper who has a large basket? That question has obsessed California math teacher Dan Meyer for years. It's my Da Vinci Code, he says...
LAS VEGAS Retailers operate today in a business to consumer world in which they try to predict what consumers want, but in the future successful retailers will adopt a or view in which consumers dictate the terms of...
One late Friday afternoon last month, the three-story Whole Foods Market at Union Square in New York City was, as usual, teeming with customers. To accommodate what one shopper called the crush of Manhattanites toting...
Retailers operate today in a “B2C” — business-to-consumer — world in which they try to predict what consumers want, but in the future successful retailers will adopt a “C2B” or a &...
LAS VEGAS — Retailers have a new compliance deadline to worry about — July 1, 2010, when all merchants must use PA-DSS (payment application data security standard)-compliant software, noted Keith Swiat...