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WASHINGTON — Consumers’ increasing appetite for mobile applications is driving online retailers to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives, according to a new Forrester Research study produced in partnership with Shop.org, the...
CHICAGO — Most retailers are not making full use of the loyalty card data available to them to make promotional decisions, Jim Hertel, managing partner at Willard Bishop, Barrington, Ill., said Tuesday during a webinar co-sponsored by his...
Food, fads, real game changers and predictions took the spotlight as Carol Christison, executive director of the International-Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, gave her always popular state of the industry presentation here at IDDBA's Dairy-Deli...
Stephen Vowles, senior vice president of marketing for Stop & Shop/Giant Food, believes that his company's Scan It! portable shopping device positions it well for the digital future when shoppers will use mobile phones and PDAs during their...
Southern Family Markets last week officially rebranded three of its stores under the Food World banner. Two of the stores, both located in Florence, Ala., most recently operated under the Southern Family Markets name; the other was a Piggly Wiggly...
If there's any retailer that knows how uncomfortable the murky middle can be, it's Wal-Mart, which over the past 30 years has plowed scores of its smaller competitors there, frequently contributing to their ultimate demise. But after a year of...
Even as Wal-Mart Stores continues to grow its U.S. store base, it is getting smaller. Actually, it is the boxes that are getting smaller as Wal-Mart finds more efficient ways of doing the same things in ever-shrinking spaces; as it seeks sites in...