Independents / Regional Grocers

The supermarket industry was once characterized by its ability to throw off new formats at a rapid pace. Included in the pantheon of once-innovative formats is the box store, the warehouse store, the superwarehouse store, the combination store and so on.In more recent years, the full-scale invention of new formats has quieted some. But maybe the time has come to institute a search for new formats.As

byDavid Merrefield