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The Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association were pleased with the bipartisan agreement on GMO labeling reached between Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
“FMI com...
Grocery stores have a $6 billion opportunity to attract more Millennial households to their stores and can begin to do so by tailoring their private label strategy based on a better understanding of how this generation consumes both food and mark...
With customers increasingly wary of being sold to, the idea of using employees as brand advocates has come to the fore. Customers trust what employees have to say far more than any communication from the brand. And the combined total of the emplo...
The leaders of the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association were among the food industry representatives underscoring the urgent need for an agreement, Thursday, on a national GMO labeling standard as Senate leaders work...
Dorothy Lane Market CEO Norman Mayne led a session at the Show & Sell Center Sunday on “Small Business Survival.” Here are three ways the retailer separates itself in a competitive market:
1. Calls customers to ask how Dorothy Lane is doing
M...
It's hardly a secret that customers are increasingly wary of being sold to — ad blockers anyone? — but the evidence still keeps growing. A recent Harris Poll study revealed that direct targeting via ads on social media can actually lose you...
Sprouts Farmers Market is looking to a newly launched mobile application to provide "one-on-one" insight into its shoppers.
Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Farm to Market Conference Thursday in New York, Sprouts CFO Brad Lukow said the app...
Imagine if U.S. supermarkets could no longer sell parmesan cheese as “parmesan” and feta as “feta.” Instead, they were forced to label these products “hard-grating cheese” and “brined white cheese.” Taking it a step further, imagine that no image...
“Word of mouth” may seem like a quaint or even passé idea in this era of digital technology, but it remains a powerful force in the competitive landscape, and one that’s worthy of attention from every manager, director and c-suite exec. Plus, new...
Wegmans Food Markets will be rolling out digital coupons for its Shoppers Club loyalty members this year, the retailer said.
The program will debut in the retailer's stores in the Rochester, N.Y., and Lehigh Valley, Pa., markets next month, ac...