CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. announced last month a one-time Voluntary Retirement Offering for certain non-store associates. Eligibility for the offering will generally include administrative associates who meet certain criteria related to age and years of service as of December 1, 2016. The offer does not include store and district associates, senior officers, and supermarket division
A report about brand loyalty among Millennials released last month includes some surprising findings that should prompt mass market retailers and consumer products suppliers to reexamine the way they do business. Based on a survey of people between the ages of 18 and 34 conducted by research company YouGov and GT Nexus, a supply chain
The recent holiday season turned out to be a pretty merry one for retailers, preliminary figures suggest. And while consumers are shifting more of their shopping to online venues, they also continue to flock to brick-and-mortar stores, and even once again proved willing to fight the crowds to take advantage of Black Friday deals. That
We are living through a time of creative experimentation: Retailers are innovating with new store sizes and formats, technology companies are building a physical presence, brick-and-mortar retailers are leveraging digital programs to connect with their shoppers, and everyone competes for the consumer share of stomach. Retailers have become manufacturers by building out private label programs
Digital strategy is a new frontier in Mexico’s business world, wide open to a number of different approaches, implementations and tactics. Because digital strategy is so different from many established and documented operational considerations, it’s often difficult to know where to start and how to proceed once that effort starts moving. The involved nature of